Things Quotes
We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.
The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.
One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.
The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.
Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.
I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.
It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.
I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.
I think that all things are spirit and are derived from spirit. When you look at life from that perspective, it takes on a whole new meaning.
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
I learned that all things come to those who wait-provided they hustle while they wait.
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.
Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.
There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.
The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
