Things Quotes

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Facts are stubborn things.

Little things please little minds.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.