Things Quotes
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.
It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.
My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple weeks, especially when we go to the NCAA tournament and all the nice things come along with it.
You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.
During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.
The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
The A-B-C's of Living Life's Purpose: A=Accept all things you can't change. B=Be Grateful for all that you have. C=Constantly create progress towards to your goals & dreams.
By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.
There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.
One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.
God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.
Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!
Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.
Alas, so all things now do hold their peace: Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing: The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease; The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.
There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.
California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.
That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.
The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
I have favourite songs for different things. The diversity of it is the strength.
The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.
If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.
We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?
Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.
