Top 100 Things That Quotes
#1. If only men could do this - shed from their bodies and their selves the things that would destroy them.
Naomi J. Williams
#2. People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
Lois Lowry
#3. I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.
Paul Wolfowitz
#4. The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are the things they try to repress. The imitate and make out they love life!
Andre Gide
#5. Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is ... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things.
Sam Altman
#6. I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
Ryan Giggs
#7. I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.
Drew Carey
#8. There's so many great things that happened at the Grand Ole Opry in 50 years. You get the chance to go out and visit with your peers. You get a chance to sing your song and say hello to so many friends and neighbors and all that you have. It's just - well, it's a second home.
Jim Ed Brown
#9. I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.
Tim Gunn
#10. A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.
Frank Herbert
#11. People change, couples change, and you have to be able to accept what is coming without trying to hang on things that you had before that they may disappear but they may transform into something that is even better.
Antonio Banderas
#12. The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better
Dennis Prager
#13. Particularly in China, I think a lot of people start to realise, OK, what are the things that they truly should value? That's something that fits perfectly well with what Volvo is offering.
Li Shufu
#14. One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.
Louis Navellier
#15. Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.
Diana Gabaldon
#16. Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don't go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about.
Lysa TerKeurst
#17. The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.
Kristin Armstrong
#18. Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
Frederick Lenz
#19. Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
Russell Baker
#20. I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!
Pope Francis
#21. All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.
Ralph Caplan
#22. Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers ...
Tim Ferriss
#23. If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.
Romola Garai
#24. To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
Donna Tartt
#25. At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
Richard Dawkins
#26. Sometimes you just have to keep away from the things that are trying to kill you, even if they're the same thing that gave birth to you. Sometimes those two things are the same, and their name is mother.
Lydia Netzer
#27. I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.
Eugene O'Neill
#28. Let us live this day in that light, that life, and that peace, so that we may gain the victory over those things that press us down.
George Dawson
#29. I've realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful
Lily Collins
#30. A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.
Mary Pope Osborne
#31. What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?
Andy Stanley
#32. There's some things that you're passionate about as a director. You just know it has to be a certain way. The challenge is resolving those so everyone is happy and no one feels that they have not been heard.
Ricky Schroder
#33. The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist.
Xavier, The Gatekeeper
Margaret Stohl
#34. She liked to talk about things that mattered. She was wholehearted, and fierce.
Rainbow Rowell
#35. Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.
Paolo Giordano
#36. I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.
Pamela Anderson
#37. It's not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that's deftly deluding mankind. It's man himself.
Pawan Mishra
#38. The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'
Michael LeBoeuf
#39. We aren't filled with fear except by things that are bad; and not by them, either, as long as it is in our power to avoid them.
Epictetus
#40. I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.
Russell Crowe
#41. Sir 15:11 Say not: It is through God, that she is not with me: for do not thou the things that he hateth.
Various
#42. ~ A doorway can lead a person into new spaces, and can allow in loved ones, enemies, new acquaintances, or horrible things that we never dare dream about. They can remove us from that we've just left, or present us a firm wall of acceptance we may or may not wish to embrace.
Heather Lyons
#43. I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
Maggie Siff
#44. In science, it is not speed that is the most important. It is the dedication, the commitment, the interest and the will to know something and to understand it - these are the things that come first.
Eugene Wigner
#45. I want to do things that scare me, and also have a good time.
Josh Pais
#46. The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.
Lykke Li
#47. Think about everything you read and everything you see. The one thing we can learn from all the horrible things that have happened in the last 15-20 years is that hysteria is the last thing we need. Cool thinking, pragmatism, and analytical thought are most important at this point.
Greg Proops
#48. Why not surround yourself with things that make you content? After all, there's no place like home.
Jean Oram
#49. The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal.
Andy Andrews
#50. I wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.
Michelle Tea
#51. But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they?re not worth getting stressed about.
Richard Branson
#52. The very things that I would love about Barack and that you would love about Barack is that he is one of us. He's a normal guy. He's not a political animal.
Enrico Letta
#53. There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
Joss Whedon
#54. We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.
Carroll Eugene Simcox
#55. -I hate that. I hate that people can't just say what they mean.
-You don't. Not always.
-I never say anything I don't mean. I just avoid saying some things that I do.
Doug Dorst
#56. The harder I try to realistically portray real things, the more the things that appear in my work have a tendency to become unreal.
Haruki Murakami
#57. Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.
Aldrich Ames
#59. The sands of time are quicksands, said Adam One. So much can sink into them without a trace. And what a blessing when those things that sink away are needless worries.
Margaret Atwood
#60. In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
Moshe Dayan
#61. It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie [ "World Of Tomorrow" ] out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.
Don Hertzfeldt
#62. In terms of whether or not you'll see other heroes along the way, you absolutely will. But, one of the things that makes our Avengers show unique is that this is our cast. We want to be able to focus on this group, much like they did in the movie.
Jeph Loeb
#63. There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone.
Lee Hall
#64. A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.
Steve Vai
#65. There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
Peter Steele
#66. I think it was interesting that when you're in those formative years you respond to things that interest you and don't always know where they lead. But they accumulate and add up to something that enriches your later life or leads you to some new experience.
Paul Smith
#67. I don't know how to choose my purpose - that sounds to big and... significant. But I know who I am, and I've chosen the things that are important to me. I think the best decisions I make about what to do in my life come when I'm being true to both of those things
April White
#68. At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.
Carrie Underwood
#69. There are so many things that can take a person somewhere else, but none of those things ever happened to me,
Jennifer Egan
#70. Parents typically don't talk to each other about their goals and attitudes to parenting but this type of conversation could be very useful for helping parents become clearer about the things that are important to them.
Timothy Carey
#71. You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. [A] crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.
Ryan Holiday
#72. It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
Mark Zuckerberg
#73. And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in.
Rae Earl
#74. Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#75. Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
Edward De Bono
#76. Create simple ways to prove the Divine exists in every aspect of your life and then make the choice to cast your gaze only upon those things that make your heart sing loudest.
Molly Friedenfeld
#78. Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
Cameron Diaz
#79. As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.
George Orwell
#80. It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'
Lena Headey
#81. I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and there that happen in life. And some of it's even just one line or like a saying and I just go off that.
Courtney Barnett
#82. The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.
Ray Bradbury
#83. There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.
Nell Zink
#84. A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.
Saint Augustine
#85. When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.
Howard Dean
#86. I never dreamed of dancing on television or anything like that. It's more of things that come along that excite me and inspire me.
Derek Hough
#87. Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.
Peter Richmond
#88. Rain is sexy. I like rain. But the car will be cozy. I like cozy things more. And I like the things that make me cozy.
Ritika Chhabra
#89. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.
Isabel Allende
#90. It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.
Sarah Polley
#91. Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.
Laura Ziskin
#92. Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.
Greg McKeown
#93. I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe
#94. [...]that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late.
James Frey
#95. And if we believe that God is everywhere, why should we not think Him present even in the coincidences that sometimes seem so strange? For, if He be in the things that coincide, He must be in the coincidence of those things.
George MacDonald
#96. Only worry about things that are within your control
Jon Fitch
#97. The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
Danah Boyd
#98. There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
Candace Bushnell
#99. These things that were between us, these and a myriad others, a myriad myriad, these remain of her, but what will become of them when I am gone, I who am their repository and sole preserver?
John Banville
#100. God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.
Lewis Grizzard
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