Things Quotes
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay
If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.
How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.
There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.
I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.
Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.
The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing.
There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.
I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller.
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.
Without exception, every person who has a great life used love to achieve it. The power to have all the positive and good things in life is love.
Focus only on things you love, feel love, and you will experience that love and joy coming back to you - multiplied!
I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox.
Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.
Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.
Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.
If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?
First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
One of the interesting things about having an international fanbase is that every single country has a different reaction to you and to the movie.
One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.
On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.
Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.
I have so many different role models who have taught me so many different things at so many different points in my life, it doesn't feel like I have one person that I have to live up to.
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.
There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
As I have always found, and often am forced to remember, to all things there is a beginning and an end.