Do Things Quotes

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less.

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

If I am only sure of one thing in life, it's that it's meant to be lived!

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.

Good things come in small packages.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

I've never not finished a masturbatory session or a pizza. Those are the two things I've never left behind.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

All things living are in search of a better world .

One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.

High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Colorism is not a good thing, especially when you're Black.