Do Things Quotes

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.

My favorite thing about movies is the ending and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'

When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.

Patience and time conquer all things.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

My job, challenges, and simple things like waking up, going to my patio, and seeing that an hibiscus or a camellia opened during the night. It just makes me happy.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

Awe and respect are two different things.

When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.

These are a few of my favorite things.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.

The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.

I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

The positive force of love can create anything good, increase good things and change anything negative in your life.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

Money is for making things happen.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

All things move on, good and bad. Never get too high or too low.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

I think your ambition for something changes as you go.

If I liked an idea, even slightly, I would throw some money at it. I've had a lot of random things not work out that people don't know about.

You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don't count.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling