Things Quotes

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

The media is almost entirely about defining the subject, defining the citizen, as one of three things: a consumer, a threat in this new age of surveillance, or as utterly disposable. Excess.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

I don't think a bankruptcy is a good thing.

I understand how important the automakers are to America. And I understand a bankruptcy; a failure in that industry wouldn't be a good thing. It's something we should avoid.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

All things are symbols.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

It is wise to agree that all things are one.

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

To God all things are beautiful and good and just.

All things flow, nothing abides.

All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

Simple things don't interest me.

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.

I'm a progressive who likes to get things done.

As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.

Unfortunately, there's been a lot of very divisive, dark things said about Muslims.

I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

It is my belief that books are living things.

The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball.

If you're gonna get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things.

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to create and make sense of things in life. Hopefully, it does the same for others.