Things Quotes

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Sweet things happen. They still do.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.