Things Quotes

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera.

Theories then are dangerous things.

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and jobs' a reality in the less-developed and rural regions of Europe, too.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

The most important things cannot be measured.

Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

What lovely things Thy hand hath made.

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.

Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.

The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.

A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if all things are going well then you can enjoy yourself.

[I made in army] all sorts of dumb things, but it did teach me a lot about the silk-screen process.

Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

Whatever you want, you can make things happen.

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

I have always looked upon the life of our Savior who descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things as an example for His followers.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.

And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven with Hell.

When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.