Things Quotes

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

Good friends don't let you do stupid things.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

Faith is a big thing we explore.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.

If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

I can make things happen when plays break down.

Storytelling is the important thing.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

The best things are not bought and sold.

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

I'm definitely close to Jen [Lawrence]; we're like sisters on set. Every day, she hugs me three times before she leaves, and does little things that are really sweet.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow'.