Top 100 Things They Quotes
#1. If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre Maurois
#2. The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.
L. Neil Smith
#3. Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial way. When you find yourself thinking and worrying about certain things they become ridiculous.
William Wegman
#4. I've always believed that you must be able to appreciate the things that people can give you, and forgive them for the things they can't.
Elizabeth Isaacs
#5. Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.
Wilbert J. McKeachie
#6. Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?'
Paul Arden
#7. Everyone has things they're afraid of. It's part of being human.
Cassandra Clare
#8. Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#9. Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn't need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn't let a job get in the way.
Paul Buchheit
#10. You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.
Chesley Sullenberger
#11. People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.
Nicholas Sparks
#12. The masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
Charles Bukowski
#13. With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of things they don't want to know.
Warwick Middleton
#14. Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
Steve Jobs
#15. The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves everything. Or, they try to have some short cuts with the, those people they were dealing with.
Bui Diem
#16. People only complain about things they can do something about.
Jack Canfield
#17. Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.
Mayim Bialik
#18. As governor, part of my job is to tell people things they don't like to hear.
Brian Sandoval
#19. Now. If any habits ever had time to fix upon her, they would have operated here. Habits are peculiar things. They will drive the really non-religious mind out of bed to say prayers that are only a custom and not a devotion. The victim of habit, when he has
Theodore Dreiser
#20. I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar ... oh my God, it's me.
Francesca Annis
#21. Fear makes even strong me do things they might never do otherwise, and my father was never strong. - Arianne
George R R Martin
#22. Because I have a heart for God I also have a heart for women. As I hear their stories, I realize so many feel themselves to be inadequate. What a joy it is to believe them into doing those things they never believed they could do and being the people they never believed they could be.
Jill Briscoe
#23. I am not like other women. I do not like the things they like or feel the things they feel. And it is better so. I do not want to be like them. I do not want to turn into one of them.
Sharon Shinn
#24. I have a problem with state lines, anyway. They interrupt things. They fragment ecosystems, which are nature's most gracious and logical land divisions.
Michael McCoy
#25. A Persian fairy tale tells of the Three Princes of Serendip, who "were always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of."7 Creativity in the wild operates much like that.
Daniel Goleman
#26. Teeth. What god-damned things they were. We had to eat. And eat and eat again. We were all disgusting, doomed to our dirty little tasks. Eating and farting and scratching and smiling and celebrating holidays.
Charles Bukowski
#27. I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.
John Muir
#28. You should have seen the things they were giving babies instead of milk. I remember seeing them put salt-pork gravy in milk bottles and putting a nipple on, and the baby sucking this salt-pork gravy. A real blue baby, dying of starvation. In house after house, I saw that sort of thing.
Studs Terkel
#29. But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.
Amy Chua
#30. I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
Garrison Keillor
#31. Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.
Romeo Miller
#32. He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.
Richard Ford
#33. Whether people are fully conscious of this or not, they actually derive countenance and sustenance from the 'atmosphere' of the things they live in or with. They are rooted in them just as a plant is in the soil in which it is planted.
A.A. Buhlmann
#34. The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
Ellen Forney
#35. People make mistakes. People do things they never meant to do.
Sue Grafton
#36. I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.
Khaled Hosseini
#37. When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.
Alexander McCall Smith
#38. Realizations are strange things. They are composed outside of the conscious self, they are the ends of paths we cannot tread in our waking minds, and for this reason, the most shocking realizations may stab across one's mind, and yet be gone in an instant, fleeting, known-and-unknown.
Moira Katson
#39. There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.
Tom Waits
#40. I love women because of their spirit, courage, and the things they go through in the process of family and life and then all the complexities and now the careers of the family and life and the whole thing. But I feel badly for our men in all of our traditions.
Maya Tiwari
#42. That's the thing about things. They tend to happen.
Darynda Jones
#43. My dad told me that God allows people to make their own choices and doesn't override their free will. That is why bad things happen. People don't do the things they should.
J.W. Lord
#44. I'm sure he knows you love him. All fathers know that
children sometimes say things they really don't mean.
Kerstin Gier
#45. I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.
Tony Blair
#46. Wine tasters will mention all sorts of things they can taste in a fine wine, as if they were a human spectrograph with the ability to sense the molecular makeup of their beverage. Research shows, however, this perception can be hijacked, fooled, and might just be completely wrong.
David McRaney
#47. Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
Jeff Bridges
#48. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things they say
even their looks
will let the secret out.
C.S. Lewis
#49. People who have stepped fully into their power know they don't have to push or force things; they know that real power comes from surrender.
Renae A. Sauter
#50. Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.
Kristin Hersh
#51. I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
Harry S. Truman
#52. I want people to know me as a real person, that I struggle with the same things they do, that I had to teach myself how to get through life in efficient ways.
Brit Morin
#53. I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.
Laura E. Richards
#54. Some people, when there's a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the things they can keep with them, or find anywhere, so they can say 'these are my things, nobody else can touch them.'
Benjamin R. Smith
#55. There were things they said out loud to each other, things they whispered with a twitch of the face, and things that were stoically hidden.
Nadia Hashimi
#56. Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#57. If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.
Thomas Watson
#58. Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.
Cassandra Clare
#59. Beginnings are pitiless things; they are full of promise and hope that they never have to realise.
Dianne Touchell
#60. The really odd thing about human sex, though, was the way it went on even when people were fully clothed and sitting on opposite sides of a fire. It was in the things they said and did not say, the way they looked at one another and looked away.
Terry Pratchett
#61. In my experience, the ex-military guys came in two types. The first grew long hair, sprouted beards, and indulged in all the things they hadn't been able do while they'd been in the armed forces. The second did their best to pretend they never got out.
Ilona Andrews
#62. I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.
Robert Smith
#63. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
Gretchen Rubin
#64. Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.
Zoey Dean
#65. These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.
Gene Wolfe
#66. In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going.
Lucinda Franks
#67. I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
Dan Castellaneta
#68. When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
Ralph Fiennes
#69. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: They wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy.
Nicholas Sparks
#70. Of course smart people know a lot and can therefore accomplish more than others less gifted. But hire them not for the knowledge they possess, but for the things they don't yet know.
Eric Schmidt
#71. People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together ... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.
Monica Furlong
#72. As you've noticed people don't want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.
Larry Weber
#73. Women are more proactive. By their nature, they're genetically designed to nurture their offspring. Men have always been the hunters in their society. But it's changing. Women are now doing two things: They're building companies and they're giving birth to kids.
Horst Rechelbacher
#74. Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
Natalie Goldberg
#75. You tread a difficult path, Amber. You are none of the things they will think you are. In the end, you will have no guides but yourself.
Mark Henwick
#76. Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people.
David Ogilvy
#77. Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
Parker Palmer
#78. I say they had character because, while they did wrong things, they always tried to do them in the right way and at the right time.
Jack Black
#79. Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
Viggo Mortensen
#80. I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
Don Yaeger
#81. To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus
#82. You know what happens to people who longingly imagine having things they can't afford?" "Happy dreams?" "A life of crime.
J.D. Robb
#83. I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
Craig Silvey
#84. Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#85. 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
#86. Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
#87. There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
Carson McCullers
#88. One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is because they are unwilling to risk anything. They are fearful of losing, failing, or getting hurt and just want to do the things they believe will keep them safe.
Zig Ziglar
#89. Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.
Neil Gaiman
#90. People only do their best at things they truly enjoy
Jack Nicklaus
#91. There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.
Matt Gallagher
#92. Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#93. I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.
Lamar Odom
#94. The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.
Louis Pasteur
#95. Religion worried him. It could ask men to do things they'd otherwise never do.
Brandon Sanderson
#96. Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#97. Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.
Kapil Dev
#98. There are some people who want to win at whatever they do, even if the things they do are not the sort of things one wins at.
Leila Sales
#99. Some people will make nonsense excuses to avoid things they have no interest in doing.
Ellen J. Barrier
#100. God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
Heinrich Heine
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