Things Quotes

When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God.

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.

Obsession can be a great thing or it can also destroy lives.

Do people think Swedes are cool? I think they think you're cool in spite of you being Swedish. But the good thing with being Swedish is that we're melancholic.

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Many strange things happen in this world

It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.

For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.

What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either.

Be who you were born to be - it's what living things do.

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

To achieve great things requires that we become great people.

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

We've been duped into believing we don't have 25 minutes to have something change our life. We don't have 2. You know, we're tweeting. We're running around. We're 15 words or less.

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.

Integrate the unseen of what you first are in the midst of all things seen.

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.

I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done.

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

All things of beauty are not theirs alone who hold the fee; but unto him no less who can enjoy, than unto them who own, are sweetest uses given to posses.

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.

You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.