Top 100 The Things Quotes
#1. A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
Henry Ward Beecher
#2. True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
Og Mandino
#3. She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.
Jodi Picoult
#4. I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power? ... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'
John Travolta
#5. The things I've seen ... no, the things I've done." He shuddered slightly as memories flashed into his mind. "I was as innocent. I thought I understood the world, but I was little more than a child.
Conn Iggulden
#6. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.
H.G.Wells
#7. One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.
John Barth
#8. Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.
Zoey Dean
#9. Our excessive possessions are not making us happy. Even worse, they are taking us away from the things that do. Once we let go of the things that don't matter, we are free to pursue all the things that really do matter.
Joshua Becker
#10. The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
Andy Goldsworthy
#11. Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?"
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John Bunyan
#12. Never regret the things you have done, only the things you have never tried ~ Unknown Author
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Unknown
#13. Many and various are the things to which a man may feel himself drawn, but one thing there is to which no man ever felt himself drawn in any way, that is, to suffering and humiliation. This we men think we ought to shun as far as possible, and in any case that we must be compelled to it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#14. If you do not know your purpose, you have detective work to do. The clues will be in your life to date, in the things you are good at, the things you enjoy doing, in your dreams and your daydreams.
Bill Harvey
#15. It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard
#16. Adversity doesn't exist to make us stronger. Adversity exists because this world is a damn hard place to live. Prove that you're better than the things it throws at you. Live.
Seanan McGuire
#17. When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people who said they were waiting for me to express what they felt they couldn't, so I kept writing.
Novala Takemoto
#18. The barrier standing between you and the life you are capable of living is a lack of consistent execution. Effective execution will set you free. It is the path to accomplish the things you desire.
Brian P. Moran
#19. Regret has two sides.
the things we've done,
and the ones we wished we had.
Me
#20. Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Richard Dawkins
#21. One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I'm not looking for actors. I feel I'm looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.
Deepa Mehta
#22. The things surrounding you in your home serve as subliminal reminders of you who are.
Denise Linn
#23. I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.
Park Dietz
#24. Maybe she had some sort of extraordinary quality, secret even to her. Maybe she did have the power to alter the things she'd always assumed she'd have to endure.
Anna North
#25. I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#26. The things that others have always seem better than what you have,
Brandon Sanderson
#27. There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on the body that fade to hard lumps under the skin.
Tracy Chevalier
#28. I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!
Robert Browning
#29. When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.
Idowu Koyenikan
#30. Greatness is measured not in your achievements but in the things you have overcome.
Kevin Michaels
#31. All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
Paul Klee
#32. I give you my name, my earthly possessions, and my eternal love. But of all the things I have, the thing I want most to give you are my eyes, these eyes that see how magnificently beautiful you are.
Michelle Marcos
#33. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
Gretchen Rubin
#34. Of all the things she thought might happen when she came here, this wasn't one. To be shot like this. Tears came into her eyes. She closed them, laid her head down on the grass and in a few moments her tears were the only part of her moving
Charlie Higson
#35. When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simplicity; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#36. None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.
Nick Lampson
#37. I think I'd rather be branded than submit to some of the things that you have to." He said this without spite, just a soft statement of fact. "I'm not strong enough to do that.
Laura Bickle
#38. She wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do
Deb Caletti
#39. One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to me to do anything other than put the patient at the center. I developed a clinical system at a time when the health care world had pretty much only billing and lab systems available.
Judith Faulkner
#40. All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.
Josh Peck
#41. One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.
Albert Einstein
#42. One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.
Martin Filler
#43. If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.
Cory Booker
#44. I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.
Robert Smith
#45. It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done.
Mitch Albom
#46. If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.
Myles Horton
#47. The things we truly need to say are best said through action.
Marty Rubin
#48. Stay out of my mind. You certainly weren't invited.' Her hands went to her hips. 'And just for the record, your mind needs to be washed out with soap! Half the things you think we're going to do are never going to happen. I could never look at you again.
Christine Feehan
#49. All the things we don't say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
Anna Quindlen
#50. Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves
-Cicero
William Shakespeare
#51. One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.
Douglas Brinkley
#52. And all the shelves rising up around her like book-lined walls of a fortress, safe in here, always safe in here from the world, guarded by books and all the secrets inside them, all the things hardly anyone else will ever care to learn.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#53. I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
J.J. Abrams
#54. Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'
Mike Rowe
#55. Whenever I use to think of others, I had to sacrifice myself ... , Its called life in earth where you had to think a lot to do or not to do, the things you like or dislike ...
Nutan Bajracharya
#56. I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.
Nicki Minaj
#57. There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'
David Halberstam
#58. I love the idea that an abuse can be negated. And that the things most often disabused are notions.
David Levithan
#59. Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.
David Frum
#60. One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.
Matt Cohler
#61. I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat.
Muhammad Ali
#62. Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.
Akiva Goldsman
#63. A pity we hadn't had time to say all the things we wanted to each other.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#64. One of the things that we hope to do with 'Pitchmen' is to give people an appreciation of what we do.
Billy Mays
#65. In my experience, the ex-military guys came in two types. The first grew long hair, sprouted beards, and indulged in all the things they hadn't been able do while they'd been in the armed forces. The second did their best to pretend they never got out.
Ilona Andrews
#66. I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
Bo Jackson
#67. But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.
Ron Hall
#68. Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
John Of The Cross
#69. The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#70. The really odd thing about human sex, though, was the way it went on even when people were fully clothed and sitting on opposite sides of a fire. It was in the things they said and did not say, the way they looked at one another and looked away.
Terry Pratchett
#71. One of the things that is very important to me is how I feel about my team. And not just what their jobs are but what they mean to one another.
Anne Sweeney
#73. The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves ... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.
M.F.K. Fisher
#74. The things you can control and the things you cannot.
Tara Conklin
#75. Desire is one of the main drivers in creating your reality; utilise desire by focusing it upon the things you want to achieve in life.
Steven Redhead
#76. Those are the things in the water that keep the moon in orbit. I've never quite understood just how they work. You mostly can't see the moon during the day, so they can't be very efficient.
Matthew Goldman
#77. I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved.
John Paul Warren
#78. My actions and the things I say and do, I wonder if they have an effect on my daughter and the way she's going to be as a person. I just want her to be a good person.
Leah Remini
#79. The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul Valery
#80. You never know that the things you're doing are that meaningful to society.
Jack Ma
#81. All the things that are worth doing, take time.
Mos Def
#82. It was beautifully worded and painfully read; the things that were written, were those never said
Lang Leav
#83. I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
Chelsea Handler
#84. The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don't see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.
Mandy Hale
#85. One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.
David Hare
#86. We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.
Brigham Young
#87. I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
Orhan Pamuk
#88. I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.
Tony Blair
#89. Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
Carine Roitfeld
#90. We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.
Jane Goodall
#91. One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.
Carly Simon
#92. On the Contrary, to Aristotle the 'forms' were in the things because they were the particular characteristics of these things
Jostein Gaarder
#93. Maybe our souls really are scattered in the things we love, and we are all completely lost, but from the moment she looked at me, I felt like I'd been found.
Claire Contreras
#94. In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.
Frederick William Robertson
#95. Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#96. You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.
Lupe Fiasco
#97. It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive.
Stephenie Meyer
#98. It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.
David Levithan
#99. i get it now. i get it. the things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end. i
John Green
#100. If only she could be bold enough, and brave enough, to claim the things she wanted: love, a purpose, a life. But could she be?
Jennifer Donnelly
