Things Quotes

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Do all things with love.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.