Things Quotes

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.

Why can't rappers just say nice things? Like I wanna take your clothes off and hang them up in the closet real nice.

I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable.

Like a river flows surely to the sea/Darling so it goes/Some things are meant to be/Take my hand, take my whole life too/For I can't help falling in love with you.

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence.

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

Saying you love someone is a good thing.

You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

Beautiful things make people happy.

The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

The good thing about being in someone else's apartment is it's so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out.

The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

For me, every day is a new thing.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

I still love when any editor today says, "it's so cool what you do", or "you inspired me". All these little things make you realize that people are reading your site and that you have an influence.

One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.

That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

All things in their beeing are good for something.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.