Things For Quotes

#1. When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

John Travolta

#2. I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

Robert Downey Jr.

#3. 30. Insects
The fly should have been included in my list of hateful things; for such an odious creature does not belong with ordinary insects ...

Sei Shonagon

#4. Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#5. The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

Thomas Aquinas

#6. A woman could do a lot of crazy things for a pair of fine-looking dimples.

Amy Andrews

#7. In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

Bill Gates

#8. What we do Yesterday is done, believing in the things for Tomorrow is a maybe, what we do today hopefully we can remember it tomorrow as a memorable day.

Jan Jansen

#9. I'd spent most of the time Googling things "for research purposes". Spoiler alert: When you're a writer, ANYTHING can be called "research.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#10. I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if that person also can inspire me, then we can do many good things for the betterment of this world.

Sri Chinmoy

#11. One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Russell Banks

#12. Look at you," he continued. "I want to build things for you, give you a reason to be soft. Give you a reason not to reach for a fucking gun when you open your eyes.

Debra Anastasia

#13. Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

Peter Singer

#14. I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

Peter Eisenman

#15. Maybe we can't predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster

Nicola Yoon

#16. Maybe it don't seem to make sense for a fella to be doing things for a reason that he don't know about. But I reckon I've been doing it most of my life.

Jim Thompson

#17. I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

Catherine Opie

#18. True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#19. The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism ... have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#20. Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

Avi Arad

#21. God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.

Joyce Meyer

#22. Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. I think you have to remember to do things for the right reason. Do the right thing, so you can be happy with all your decisions and happy with how spent time in the world.

Chris Wyse

#24. I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

Greg Lake

#25. Uribe and I have very good relations. I owe him loyalty, I admire him, he did great things for our country, and I think that because of what he did, I can now concentrate on different issues, different from what he concentrated on.

Juan Manuel Santos

#26. In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.

Kathleen Rooney

#27. You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the earth, Sun & all sorts of things-for I think it is the true way (corrected by judgement) to work out a discovery.

Michael Faraday

#28. I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.

Erin O'Connor

#29. One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

Criss Jami

#30. Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

David Schwimmer

#31. I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

Milla Jovovich

#32. If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

Ishmael

#33. No matter how many years pass, it means something to a parent when their child needs them. At first, kids need you so much, all you want them to do is grow up so they can do things for themselves. Then you learn. You learn you should have savored every time they reached for you or called your name.

Kristen Ashley

#34. People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

Daniel Radcliffe

#35. You can have some stable things in life, and so long as you're not away from those things for too long, they can help keep you grounded.

Suki Waterhouse

#36. Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.

Brian Acton

#37. My husband is the romantic one in our relationship. He's always doing sweet things for me. Each year, we recreate our first date - it was a blind date, and we met at the zoo, followed by a trip to the museum. I'd have to say that's my favorite romantic date.

Lori Wilde

#38. I don't think I have to combat Airbnb. It is like comparing Tiffany to a shop that sells things for one dollar.

Harry Triguboff

#39. Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people.

M.F. Moonzajer

#40. We cannot speak loudly or angrily at such times; we are not apt to be eager about mere worldly things, for our very awe at our quickened sense of the nearness of the invisible world, makes us calm and serene about the petty trifles of today.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#41. You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

Joe Mantegna

#42. It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

Courteney Cox

#43. All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in the production of the world's wealth ... All is for all!

Peter Kropotkin

#44. Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

Henry David Thoreau

#45. They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen.

Caroline Dhavernas

#46. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Herodotus

#47. All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Megan Hart

#48. For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

Thomas Merton

#49. Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I'll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it's time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, will do anything for you, just say the word ...

Andre Aciman

#50. Your subservience makes me uncomfortable."
That pissed me off. "Then you shouldn't pay people to do things for you. End of story.

Erin McCarthy

#51. It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. That which is enough is ready to our hands. He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Seneca.

#52. My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

Jennifer Beals

#53. The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.

Lesley Visser

#54. Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

Lord Chesterfield

#55. Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Tracey Ullman

#56. Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

George R R Martin

#57. It had given her pleasure to do things for him in his lifetime, and now it was a pleasure to do things for his memory. But the memory of a father went only so far.

Alexander McCall Smith

#58. As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.

Rosie Perez

#59. We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

John Desmond Bernal

#60. God says to us, "Pray, because I have all kinds of things for you; and when you ask, you will receive. I have all this grace, and you live with scarcity. Come unto me, all you who labor. Why are you so rushed? Where are you running now? Everything you need, I have."

Jim Cymbala

#61. There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.

Jimmy Sangster

#62. When someone special walks into your life and is able to change things for the better, don't let them walk away.

Wiz Khalifa

#63. I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels ... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.

Orhan Pamuk

#64. I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#65. I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

Ziggy Marley

#66. I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.

Kevin Sampsell

#67. One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

Cassandra Clare

#68. Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.

Jess Walter

#69. It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Henri De Regnier

#70. All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Lou Holtz

#71. Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pampered goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.

Alexander Pope

#72. Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Norah Jones

#73. My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.

Edmund White

#74. Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.

Robert A. Dahl

#75. Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

Lois Lowry

#76. I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where I'm doing a lot of talks because I want to get kids turned on. I want to see these kids, these geeky nerdy kids, go out there and do something.

Temple Grandin

#77. I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

Rachel McAdams

#78. But this Ruth Mummert...he felt things for her he had never felt for Salome. Was that love, also? If it were, it was like a fire that warmed him and threatened to burn him all at once.

Jan Drexler

#79. Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

Lewis Mumford

#80. There is absolutely no reason to believe that those things for which science does not yet have natural explanations will turn out to be of supernatural origin, any more than volcanoes or earthquakes or diseases turn out to be caused by angry deities, as people once believed they were. Of

Richard Dawkins

#81. I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

J. C. Chandor

#82. It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.

Justin Bieber

#83. I have made you some things, for when you get back. I understand now, all the baking you sent me, stale and crumbled in brown paper and rough twine. Now you're away and I am here. So I will make and make until you get back to remind you, and myself: there are reasons to come home.

Emma Hooper

#84. We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

Margrethe II Of Denmark

#85. Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

Mother Teresa

#86. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

Vincent Van Gogh

#87. Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life?

Christopher Babson

#88. All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

William Johnson Cory

#89. Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.

Susan B. Anthony

#90. Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence. Technology-wise, it's things like ease of use, user interfaces; all of these things that tend to be less important in our other business segments are important things for us in the consumer market.

Charles Giancarlo

#91. I think the president can set a tone and say we're not divided by gender, age, race. We're all Americans and want the same things. We want the best things for our kids. We want the rules to be fair. If they work hard, get a great education, they should be able to join the middle class.

Bobby Jindal

#92. In Kinvara, poor as we were, and unstable, we at least had family nearby, people who knew us. We shared traditions and a way of looking at the world. We didn't know until we left how much we took those things for granted.

Christina Baker Kline

#93. You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Nas

#94. How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!

Sterling W. Sill

#95. You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

Lynda Barry

#96. Naw. Just us old country niggers. We kind of make it a point to call things for what they is. I'd hate to guess how many names they is for the jailhouse. I'd hate to have to count em.

Cormac McCarthy

#97. To generate untruth, you have to do a lot of things. For truth, there is nothing to do - anyway it is there.

Sadghuru

#98. I never think people should do things for me. I think I should do things for others. That makes me more comfortable.

Alber Elbaz

#99. A couple of things for the not-so-diminutive man: avoid any prints that are large scale, because you will look like the print is wearing you, as opposed to you wearing the print.

Tim Gunn

#100. To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

Kaskade