Top 100 Things Have Quotes
#1. Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me."
Lady Alice Rowhedge
Norah Lofts
#2. Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service ... I've seen a generation eager - impatient even - to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.
Barack Obama
#3. I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.
William Hague
#4. All things have beauty, but not everyone sees it
Confucius
#5. So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.
John O'Hara
#6. Once things have passed and become irretrievable, we tend to see them with a hazy, golden glow.
Walter Murch
#8. ...how crazy things have to get before I ended up drooling all over a strait jacket with my name on it at Happyville Manor.
Gayla Drummond
#10. That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.
Robert Silverberg
#11. Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#12. She shook her head in puzzlement.
'You're very strange,' she said.
'No, I'm very ordinary,' said Arthur,'but some very strange things have happened to me. You could say I'm more differed from than differing.
Douglas Adams
#13. I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.
Jeffrey Jones
#14. So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat.
Toby Keith
#15. Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Spiro T. Agnew
#16. The more respect that different objects, customs, or laws are given, the more attentively you have to question the right these things have to this respect.
Leo Tolstoy
#17. Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.
Kim Newman
#18. Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets..
Cassandra Clare
#19. So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better.
John Kasich
#20. People would say, 'Boy, I really loved you in Ferris Bueller, and it would really aggravate me. I thought I was a one-trick pony, and people had seen the trick. Now that things have worked out and I've gone on to other things, I'm really pleased that people enjoy it.
Alan Ruck
#21. I'm a super hero and I'm in a phone booth but those things have nothing in common with each other; I just come here to cry.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#22. Things have changed," Mother answered, her gaze drawn to the southern horizon. "So we change with them.
Mindy McGinnis
#23. And I know things have to get worse before they get better.
Stephen Chbosky
#24. I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.
Dane Cook
#25. I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.
Ben Richards
#26. And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of comprehension.
Marcel Proust
#27. At the worst possible moment, when your fund is down because cheap things have gotten cheaper, you need to have capital, to have clients who will actually love the phone call and-most of the time, if not all the time-add, rather than subtract, capital.
Seth Klarman
#28. The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
Dan Simmons
#29. Things have value Because somebody buys them, Because somebody pays money; If you can find a buyer, Even a lie is worth a thousand yen.
Kobo Abe
#30. Things have their way of staying with you forever, haunting your sleep and giving you false hope.
Diyar Harraz
#31. Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
Robert Heller
#32. I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
Olivia Wilde
#33. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. - 2Co 5:17 In
Chris White
#34. Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.
CeeLo Green
#35. So shut the window tight and make sure the latch is fastened. Dark things have a way of slipping in through narrow spaces.
Leigh Bardugo
#36. Lord, look down on Thy Servant!
Bad things have come to pass.
There is no heat in the midday sun, nor health in the wayside grass.
His bones are full of an old disease - his torments run and increase.
Lord, make haste with Thy Lightning and grant him a quick release!
Cherise Sinclair
#37. And Maud bakes cookies, because when the darkness is too heavy to bear and too many things have been broken in too many ways to ever be fixed again, Maud doesn't know what weapon to use if one can't use dreams.
Fredrik Backman
#38. As an actor, you can't play big, huge things. But, what you can play is love for your father and caring for your daughter and being afraid, and having to dig deep and find out what you're made of. All of those things have been incredibly fun to play.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#39. I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. So I talk with
him.
Nicholas Sparks
#40. The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To her who loved the rose.
Francis Thompson
#41. Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she's come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.
Christina Baker Kline
#42. Virgil takes a slightly mashed Twinkie from his pocket and sets this on the counter between us and Ralph. "How old is that?" I murmur. "These things have enough preservatives in them to keep them on the shelves until 2050," Virgil whispers.
Jodi Picoult
#43. In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.
Ethel Merman
#44. But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#45. The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
Michael Badnarik
#47. When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.
Iyanla Vanzant
#48. It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#49. I've been fortunate enough to be headstrong, to be full of self-belief, and those things have never wavered for me.
Tim Howard
#50. How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
Jules Verne
#51. When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
Bipasha Basu
#52. The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.
Richard Gere
#53. Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being pregnant
Nicholas Sparks
#54. In this universe we live in. Stranger things have been known to happen.
Arnold Arre
#55. Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi
#56. Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.
David Bowie
#57. Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?
Storm Jameson
#58. It was fun to be in a scene again with [my wife LaTanya Richardson]. We used to do plays together all the time. We hadn't really worked together since Losing Isaiah [1995]. That was kind of early on in both of our cinematic careers. Things have changed a little bit since then.
Samuel L. Jackson
#59. In the course of this one day, several things have taken a decisive step forward. The gears have turned forward with a click. And gears that have turned forward never turn back. That is one of the world's rules.
Haruki Murakami
#60. How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
Robert Frost
#61. You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'
Annie Lennox
#62. Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
Trey Anastasio
#63. I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.
Tino Sehgal
#64. There should be laughter after pain, there should be sunlight after rain, these things have always been the same, so why worry now?
[Why Worry?]
Mark Knopfler
#65. This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.
Tempestt Bledsoe
#66. I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.
Sylvester Stallone
#67. These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.
Stockard Channing
#68. Amin, you're not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don't believe in the salvation of others?
Yasmina Khadra
#69. Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.
Warren Buffett
#70. This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.
David Levithan
#71. A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
Drew Houston
#72. Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
Marianne Williamson
#73. All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
Wallace Stevens
#74. The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David Thoreau
#75. I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made.
Robbie Coltrane
#76. Lots of things have never happened before. We're only born once.
Terry Pratchett
#77. But one thing led to another, as things have a way of doing, and in 1948, when I was still not as discerning as one should be when making life-shaping decisions, I became a Cub fan. The Catholic Church thinks seven-year-olds have reached an age of reasoning. The church might want to rethink that.
George F. Will
#78. In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.
Isabelle Huppert
#79. Yes, it will hurt for some time. Things have to hurt before they can heal. That is the way of life.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#80. Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.
Peter Camejo
#81. I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?
Mother Teresa
#82. Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.
Pope Francis
#83. I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike.
Rob Morrow
#84. Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#85. When everything seems like its changed ... its because things have. Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.
Kami Garcia
#86. Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be ... we can go on a fantastic journey.
Yahoo Serious
#87. The bad news (or good news, depending on your point of view) is that things have always been like this.
Thomas Piketty
#88. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.
Sam Levenson
#89. Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.
Daniel Greenberg
#90. Certain objects that are supposed to (a) remain horizontal and (b) support heavy things have ceased to do either.
Neal Stephenson
#91. A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
Catherine Crowe
#92. Love has an effect few other things have: to empower you with happiness, and at the same time, strip you of all power, making you a prisoner of fear.
Layla Hagen
#93. If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.
Richard P. Feynman
#94. In our nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Certain things have been unlearnt, and this is good, provided other things are learnt. There must be no void in the human heart.
Victor Hugo
#95. The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.
Gary Clark Jr.
#96. Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.
Uthman Ibn Affan
#97. Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.
Ann Veneman
#99. I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things have only contributed to my confidence and sense of self, because I survived them and became a better and stronger person.
Jenna Jameson
#100. If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.
Nellie McKay
