Top 100 Things Are Quotes
#1. In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#2. Some things are too terrible to be true.
Bob Dylan
#4. The small things are the fuses to get the bigger things to explode.
Roseanne Cheng
#5. I am sorry for only two things. These two things are I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life-time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damned human race. I wish the entire human race had one neck and I had my hands around it!
Carl Panzram
#6. There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.
Jonathan Coulton
#7. The budgets are runnin' low, the streets ain't really got money no more, things are just dryin' up; I just felt like people needed some motivation, so I took 'em "Overtime."
Ace Hood
#8. I wish she would just look at me, look at my face and stop talking long enough to see me. To see that things are not right. That none of this is real and I am in some other place.
Kekla Magoon
#9. Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas.
Ralph Ellison
#10. Persons are to be loved; things are to be used.
Reuel Howe
#11. Grace is that thing that shows up to guide you when you've done the first two steps and you're intent on doing something larger than just yourself. That's when all of the sudden things are great.
Tony Robbins
#12. There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
Lady Gregory
#13. I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
Walter Salles
#14. You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen.
Nia Long
#15. Make me howl, make me scream,
Things are never what they seem.
Lay me out, end the pain,
Now I'll never be the same.
Deep inside, there I cry,
Yet you still just pass me by.
Can't you see, this is me,
And I'm Howling! I'm Howling! I'm Howling!
Lisa Kessler
#16. I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'
Bill Maher
#17. But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
Black Elk
#18. Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.
John Ashbery
#19. All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.
Ellen G. White
#20. No matter how bad things are, there's still good on it.
Solita
#21. You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.
Ed Sheeran
#22. To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
Thomas Carlyle
#23. What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions ... These things are also what makes a man a monster.
Shannon Delany
#24. Things are really fucked up right now. We hardly see each other anymore and when we do, we go to sleep on opposite sides of the bed
Lucinda Rosenfeld
#25. What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#26. You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
Sam Altman
#27. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
Novalis
#28. The particles that are the very building blocks of all things, are in all possible locations until observation/measurement causes them to choose a specific position.
Kevin Michel
#29. Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.
Emily Mortimer
#30. I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
Paul McCartney
#31. Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.
Hyman Minsky
#32. but sometimes all the right things are as useless as nothing at all. Life,
Ann Patchett
#33. In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.
Si Robertson
#34. When things are good in your life, take the time to build and fortify your relationship with the Lord. Never become complacent about your relationship with Him, because there's always room to grow DEEPER!
Stormie O'martian
#35. I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.
Walter Murch
#36. I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
Alice Walker
#37. People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.
Mark Zuckerberg
#38. I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Stephanie Perkins
#39. Lots of things are more than what they seem in a purely physical sense.
Jim Butcher
#40. So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.
Kathy Mattea
#41. I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach.
Sarah Palin
#42. Michaelangelo must teach them - do not forget: all things are naked and open before His eyes.
Pope John Paul II
#43. If things are difficult, remember that it won't always be like this.
Jane Riddell
#44. When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder who's reasons these things are happening for.
Dakota Fanning
#45. There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
Hippocrates
#46. You are a rose bush left out in the wild, scraping for survival. You have fought for everything you have, and you thrive on the struggle. You're called to it. The harder things are, the better you get.
Denise Grover Swank
#47. We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.
Madeleine L'Engle
#48. Music and fashion go hand in hand. I think music inspires all types of arts; it inspires life, emotion, mood, and all of those things are reflected in my fashion and my style. One doesn't go without the other.
Rihanna
#49. Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
#50. Seasonal friends- they're "there for you" and only come around during seasons of life when things are going great and almost perfect. Then, when things aren't so great, you see their true colors.
Krystal Volney
#51. Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.
Anthony Anderson
#52. Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.
Steve House
#53. More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.
Jeff Sessions
#55. History is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, that is, of everyone. All our ideas, loves, plans, heroic ideals, all these lofty things are worthless.
Karel Capek
#56. All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
Zeno Of Citium
#57. Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,All things are changed, save in the east,The faithful beauty of the stars.
Sara Teasdale
#58. All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
Giordano Bruno
#59. I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
Michel De Montaigne
#60. It is wise to agree that all things are one.
Heraclitus
#61. I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.
Todd Rundgren
#62. Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus
#63. Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you're about to leave them.
Laura Ruby
#64. Month by month things are losing their hardness; even my body now lets the light through; my spine is soft like wax near the flame of the candle. I dream; I dream.
Virginia Woolf
#65. However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.
Richard Branson
#66. The pain'll start creeping in again by midnight, but that should give us enough time to talk this through." He sipped again and gave me a look of rueful amusement. "Human things are terrific right to the end, it seems like. I never would have guessed.
Stephen King
#67. I remember how that used to piss me off as a kid," he recalled. "Get yourself a brand-new knife and 5 minutes later it's hung up in power lines or a fucking tree. That sure is life. One minute things are moving along good, the next, the wind blows your ass to ruination.
Patricia Cornwell
#68. Dare to believe SOMETHING AMAZING is going to happen in your life. When you believe, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.
Joel Osteen
#69. Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?
Jeffrey R. Holland
#70. Things are going to get unimaginably worse, and they are never, ever, going to get better.
Kurt Vonnegut
#71. I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.
James Dickey
#72. No point in imagining anything," said Granny. "Things are bad enough as they are.
Terry Pratchett
#73. At that moment, Maria learned that certain things are lost forever.
Paulo Coelho
#74. The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those things are worthwhile which can preserve their validity in the eyes of a man threatened with instant death.
Czeslaw Milosz
#75. Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.
Susan Mallery
#76. Cheer up, keep your spirits high, things are bound to get better!
Anne Frank
#77. It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut
#78. For each man there are different perspectives, but at the core they are the same. Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into pursuit of evil.
David Gemmell
#79. The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty.
Saul Bellow
#80. some things are too wonderful even for a child, and freedom's one of them
Elizabeth Yates
#81. Everything human must have in it both joy and sorrow; the only matter of interest is the manner in which the two things are balanced or divided.
G.K. Chesterton
#82. I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.
Russell Brand
#84. There is a pain that means things are coming apart. But then, sometimes there is a pain that means that things might be able to come back together. Surgery can be as painful as stabbing, but it leads to healing. I knew I was beginning to heal.
John Ortberg
#85. Some things are not meant to be, Leighton Atwood had said the night before. But if they were not meant to be, then why did the forces of destiny keep bringing them together?
Sherry Thomas
#86. Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan W. Watts
#87. Proud houses fall into decline and great cities pass into ruin. The stories of those things are lost to forgotten languages and moth-eaten scrolls. Vine and root grapple with the rune carved in stone, and rust carries away, fleck by fleck, the great gates of iron.
William Timothy Murray
#88. I try to do things positive on my throat, but a couple things are negative like smoking and drinking heavily. I really don't know. There's no particular thing that I do that's beneficial - it just kinda works. I guess I'd say warming up every day before a performance is the biggest thing.
Mitch Lucker
#89. Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.
Janet Weiss
#92. To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay. But I could easily live in a world populated with these disjunctive, bizarre things ... I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.
Joel-Peter Witkin
#93. Sad things are beautiful in a way which can only be explained to those who already understand.
Amelia Mysko
#94. People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.
William J. Clinton
#95. Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.
Kym Whitley
#96. I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: No matter how screwed up things are, they can get a whole lot worse.
Jim Butcher
#97. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.
Thomas Sowell
#99. I am not very happy the way things are going out there in New Zealand,
Sanath Jayasuriya
#100. The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world.
Michael Jackson
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