Things Quotes

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay "happened". I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

I would fain grow old learning many things.