Things Not Quotes

#1. When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Bob Hope

#2. "Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it.

Gregory Orr

#3. Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

C.S. Lewis

#4. That was the word she used to describe herself - fit. A.J. would've used other words. Like holy shit and sweet baby Jesus.
A) If it were up to me, Alison, you'd never wear clothes again. Nor, for that matter, would I ...
Things not to say.

Suzanne Brockmann

#5. The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap

Amy Carmichael

#6. I understand that most iPhone users want a phone that can do other nifty things, not a general purpose computer that happens to make phone calls. Strict control over apps minimizes the chances that someone will find their phone hacked or virus-laden.

Jamais Cascio

#7. Sometimes we believe things not because we know they are true, but because the lies are easier to accept.

Vi Keeland

#8. I don't think of myself as being a very fun or outgoing person, but my mouth thinks it's fun. My mouth says a lot of things, not necessarily endorsed by me or my brain.

Mimi Strong

#9. There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

Sebastian Vettel

#10. Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

Frederick Lenz

#11. First things were good, last things not so much so.

Kate Atkinson

#12. Love people, not things; use things, not people.

Spencer W. Kimball

#13. One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.

Denis Waitley

#14. You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

Marya Hornbacher

#15. HEBREWS 11 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of e things not seen. 2For by it the people of old received their commendation. 3By faith we understand that the universe was created by f the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of g things that are visible.

Anonymous

#16. The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

Heraclitus

#17. Nations. These monuments are not merely pretty things, not merely valued signs of man's creative power. They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God.

Robert M. Edsel

#18. All of my plays are about people missing the boat, closing down too young, coming to the end of their lives with regret at things not done, as opposed to things done. II find most people spend too much time living as if they're never going to die.

Edward Albee

#19. [Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.

Samuel Beckett

#20. (Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#21. [S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence.

Joan Silber

#22. There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

Adam Hartung

#23. Not one is dissatisfied ... not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not

Walt Whitman

#24. When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating, even things not-to-my-taste. Now I am less open. I will decide after a few pages if I want to stay in the world of the book, and if I don't, I put it down. I have less time left.

Susan Minot

#25. Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Saint Augustine

#26. We're to love people and use things, not love things and use people.

Adrian Rogers

#27. He wanted to know things, not reveal them.

Terry Goodkind

#28. We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Blaise Pascal

#29. We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

Anthony De Mello

#30. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of e things not seen.

Anonymous

#31. Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.

Dick Butkus

#32. And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

Emily Giffin

#33. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them

Joan Didion

#34. [T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

Joseph Brodsky

#35. Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

Isaac Watts

#36. I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.

Shane Smith

#37. What's the one thing - not two things, not three, not four, but the one big thing - in the box?

Bob P. Buford

#38. We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves - or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.

Roger Scruton

#39. I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.

Weili Dai

#40. Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Victor Hugo

#41. Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

Neil Gaiman

#42. Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking toward Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty to Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping But Secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People traveled with them.

Terry Pratchett

#43. It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us is that I think women have always known this.

Janet Holmes A Court

#44. What you don't understand is, people never believe these things. Not until they experience them. Then when they experience them they become people other people don't believe. Hard lines.

Doris Lessing

#45. Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

Romano Prodi

#46. I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.

Lorrie Moore

#47. Hope
Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us ... A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.

Barack Obama

#48. When you don't have many friends and you don't have a social life you're kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There's a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you're part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

Tim Burton

#49. We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#50. All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#51. What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Robert Browning

#52. Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

Gelett Burgess

#53. Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what makes it interesting. In life the first act is always exciting. The second act, that is where the depth comes in.

Joyce Van Patten

#54. If I liked an idea, even slightly, I would throw some money at it. I've had a lot of random things not work out that people don't know about.

Rob Dyrdek

#55. Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

Steven Pinker

#56. Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.

Zinedine Zidane

#57. As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.

Michael Faraday

#58. Women, when describing their roles in their organizations, usually referred to themselves as being in the middle of things. Not at the top, but in the center; not reaching down, but reaching out.

Sally Helgesen

#59. I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.

A.G.

#60. I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.

Oscar Isaac

#61. Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of the reason we work is to earn money. In between all this work, we like to eat out at restaurants, go on trips, buy nice things, not to mention pay rent and meet the cost of living.

Stella Young

#62. I am going to open myself up to all that is superior in the world and beyond and I am going to spend time trying to take delight in things! Not finding ruin in them! If the ruin of you is what you look for, the ruin of you is what you are going to find!

C. JoyBell C.

#63. How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.

H.L. Mencken

#64. The opposite of envy and entitlement is gratitude. Gratitude comes from the feeling of freely receiving things, not because we deserve them, but because someone has graced us with them. We feel a thankfulness grounded in love,

Henry Cloud

#65. We see things not as they are, but as we are ourselves.

H.M. Tomlinson

#66. Why must a man be always taking on Things not his own, as if he were a servant whose marketing-bag grows heavier and heavier from stall to stall and, loaded down, he follows and doesn't dare ask: Master, why this banquet?

Rainer Maria Rilke

#67. Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

Charles Caleb Colton

#68. I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.

Jane Fonda

#69. Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#70. All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

John C. Maxwell

#71. We see the shadows of things, not the things themselves . . . We are forced to imagine what the writer doesn't reveal.

Joyce Carol Oates

#72. Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.

Mark Bittman

#73. Charlotte looked up doubtfully, wondering why, as she got older, she seemed to be more afraid of things, not less.

Penelope Farmer

#74. You have all these things not because you deserve them, but because Jesus shed His blood and gave you the right to have them. All these blessings are yours today because God is for you! And if God is for you, who can be against you!

Joseph Prince

#75. The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#76. To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it's never done; it's never perfect, and so it's the process. It's like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.

Kerry Bishe

#77. Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.

Charlotte Mason

#78. The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

Phil Donahue

#79. Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

Renzo Piano

#80. The line between justice and injustice, between things being right and things not being right, can't be drawn between "us" and "them." It runs right down through the middle of each one of us.

N. T. Wright

#81. Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

Frederick Lenz

#82. You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#83. Certain things not only can't be taught but can be retarded by other stuff that can be taught.

David Foster Wallace

#84. There are many things not called poison which can kill a man,

Agatha Christie

#85. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.

Charles Kingsley

#86. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#87. I knew: the gods turned once, in their madness,
Men into things, not killing humane senses.
You've been turned in to my reminiscences
To make eternal the unearthly sadness.

Anna Akhmatova

#88. I want to only imagine things, not know them.

Katie Williams

#89. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]

John F. Kennedy

#90. The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.

Frederick W. Smith

#91. the point of shopping is to look at things, not to buy

Lisa Kleypas

#92. For a moment the garden, the noise, the stentch of blood and demon, vanished away, and he was alone in a soundless place with only Tessa. He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her.
But it was Jem's place to do those things, not his. Not his.

Cassandra Clare

#93. Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

Ben Stein

#94. But even things not there have weight. Negative weight which is the worst kind.

Stephen King

#95. I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Horton Foote

#96. In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

Francisco De Quevedo

#97. You're suppose to stop her from doing stupid things, not helping

Sara Shepard

#98. Books can do many things, but not everything. We have to live the important things, not read them.

Nina George

#99. I learnt to test the size of my brain..by trying this simple thought ! Look out for the good things, not the faults.It takes a good deal bigger sized brain to find out what is not wrong with people and things than to fins out what is wrong!!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#100. I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. I have to learn to take things not so seriously. And to stop biting my nails! ... Recording music has helped take my mind off certain things. For me, my music is therapy.

Britney Spears