Things Quotes

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

... our little things are all big to God's love; our big things are all small to His power.

We're on the verge of all things new.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.

Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.

I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.

First things first, second things never.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'

Accept life on life's terms and just let things go.

When I initially read the script, it goes inside and comes out different things even without commenting on any stuff. And then, those pieces are taken out and then spread out through the movie.

The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.