Things Quotes

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!

Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.

Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live.

All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

Fear holds us back. Fear or love. That's all there is. We make all our decisions based on these two things.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

We're blessed to be worrying about the silly things that we worry about when people are worrying about where they are going to sleep, and what they are going to feed their kids every day.

That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.

We were going to have an all-day drinking binge. Gonna ride our bikes, hang out... do naughty things. But I started feeling this overwhelming guilt.

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

There are two things you don't do: One, you don't open an e-mail from Phil Simms in front of your kids, and, two, you don't jinx a man going for a perfect week.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it...Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.