Things Quotes

Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

I'm really good at building things that shoot, hurl, or throw stuff.

Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.

I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do.

When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it's important to remember how tied we are

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.

The most terrible of all things is terror.

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.

Good things should be praised.

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

My parents were great in the sense that they treated me like a human being when I was growing up. They showed me how beautiful things can be and how ugly they can be.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.

I believe the general consensus is the bigger it is, the more women flock to you. I guess its a good thing mine is HUGE!

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Well, I would say that Shake It Up was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

I still like to save up and splurge. That's an important thing to do.

Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things.

You become great by going small thing in a great way.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

People have to know there is more to living than physical things.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.