Top 100 Things To Quotes
#1. Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra" - in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime.
Robert A. Heinlein
#2. You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.
Hasan M. Elahi
#3. The best things to hold on to are the memories of friendship and love.
Debasish Mridha
#4. I have a swagger coach that helps me and teaches me different swaggerific things to do.
Justin Bieber
#5. If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.
J. L. Mackie
#6. Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. I imagined there were more pleasant things to do on a late-summer morning than pick up your only son from prison.
Michael Sears
#8. His touch does strange things to me. It makes me feel things. Things I'm not supposed to feel. Things I can't allow myself to feel. It's like his fingers are strumming my heartstrings, pulling, plucking, twisting, and I'm helpless. Completely and utterly helpless.
Beth Michele
#9. Well, I don't like yoga. I've got a thousand things to do.
Monica Potter
#10. O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!
Virgil
#11. God's specialty is raising dead things to life and making impossible things possible. You don't have the need that exceeds His power.
Beth Moore
#12. What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.
Frederick Lenz
#13. Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
Heinrich Boll
#14. i let you love me.
i let you take care of me.
i let you do things to me
no one was allowed to do before.
AVA.
#15. I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around people that do it well and you get your head out of your ass, you can really learn something.
Benjamin Walker
#16. I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.
John Green
#17. And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
Owen Glendower
#18. As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.
Declan Lowney
#19. To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
Henning Mankell
#20. When I was her age," Munro said to Eilidh, "I was chasing frogs."
Oron Chuckled. "When I was your age, I was chasing frogs. Come. We have things to discuss.
India Drummond
#21. All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.
Geoff Mulgan
#22. You can see with the proliferation of magazines, you know, that just focus entirely on that. So it just - it seems like there (was) a lot of fodder and a lot of stories and fun things to poke fun at and highlight.
Debra Messing
#23. And don't even suggest that these would be better off in Tiercel's hands. No, Tiercel has other things to do with his life. You, on the other hand, get to protect him. And guess what that makes you?"
"Stupid?" Harrier suggested. "Suicidal?"
"A Knight-Mage!" the unicorn cried cheerfully.
Mercedes Lackey
#24. I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.
Christina Aguilera
#25. As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.
Niecy Nash
#26. Your life looks like a prison because you focus on the things you wish you had and thus don't appreciate what you already have.
So why don't you try to see the abundance in your life? Because, if you haven't noticed, you've got many things to thank for. Just look around.
Lidiya K.
#27. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
Daniel J. Boorstin
#28. We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.
Aimee Bender
#29. I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do than survive.
Ani DiFranco
#30. A woman should always be late for a man. Men should wait. But a woman should never be late for another woman. A woman's time is precious: she has a lot of things to do..
Louise Kean
#31. Love meant different things to different people.
J.D. Robb
#32. People think that forgiveness is for the person who wronged you, but it's not. Because when we allow things to bottle up inside of us and we don't release it, or forgive the people who may have caused hurt to come in our lives, we just become bitter. And God can't use bitter people.
Vanessa Miller
#33. Her philosophy is very empowering - that everything we want or need in life we can have, and we can get for ourselves. (She also believes that you should say nice things to your water if you want to encourage its healing properties, but every sage has a few eccentricities.) I
Megyn Kelly
#34. You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him
don't let this one event define who you are.
Mary Esselman
#35. I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.
Eva Zeisel
#36. I love Colorado. The mountains are so passionate. They just make me want to run to the top and yell obscene things to the valleys below." ~ Ardith
Jocelyn Davies
#37. Hold on to that new, enlarge vision of victory that God has given you. Start expecting things to change in your favor. Dare to boldly declare that you are standing strong against the forces of darkness.
Joel Osteen
#38. I hope I make films where you walk away ... with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.
Mike Leigh
#39. In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
Victoria De Los Angeles
#40. My dad had previously spoken about 'fighting through things to get to the good stuff' or some such concept, and as he shook the salt water out of his curly brown hair, he talked more about people 'giving up and missing out on fantastic moments'.
Norman Ollestad
#41. TO GROW OUR MIND- We must learn new things. We must CARE for more things. We must TEACH more things. We must SHARE more things. We must RETAIN more things. To grow our mind - We don't need education, We need a good memory.
Lorenzo Victory
#42. I imagine that anyone who goes through trauma like I have wonders the same things I do: how God can exist and allow such awful things to happen. There are no reasons for my parents' death, and that's that.
Jessica Park
#43. I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information.
Shane Carruth
#44. It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck ... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.
Mark Cuban
#46. On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.
Robert Walser
#47. Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.
Khaled Mashal
#48. It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes
Oswald Chambers
#49. If you want to create a high-society, you must give high things to the public! Show the public eagle; public will be an eagle! Show the public a rat, public will be a rat! Whatever you give to the public, public will take that! To create a high-society, you must give high things to the public!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
Heraclitus
#51. I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.
Lily Allen
#52. I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.
Max Von Sydow
#53. Hummingbirds certainly communicate important things to humankind about our world_including the power, grace and beauty that can be found in a very small being.
Leslie Forsberg
#55. Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.
L.J.Smith
#56. Among the most important things to remember about evolution - and about its primary mechanism, natural selection, as limned by Darwin and his successors - is that it doesn't have purposes. It only has results. To
David Quammen
#57. I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.
Alec Soth
#58. Lord, it is true that people are saying and doing things to me that I don't deserve. But you know that my heart is filled with selfish, foolish, unkind thoughts that are blameworthy. So protect me from becoming bitter or proud through this. I commit my reputation and cause to you. Amen.
Timothy Keller
#59. You can't live life waiting for things to go wrong, because then you're not really living. Everyone is going to die. That is part of the journey of living. What matters most is living each day you do have like it might be yout last.
Missy Johnson
#60. But ... he's a demon. Isn't that sort of the main category of Things to Smite?
Bethany Frenette
#61. I can't even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don't seem like real people to me: they're props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don't find funny. I have to feel like they're real people.
Roz Chast
#62. Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.
Rory Sutherland
#63. You need bad things to make good things. It's like with farming - if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.
Mike Watt
#64. I'm glad of it, that's one of your foolish extravagances, sending flowers and things to girls for whom you don't care two pins," continued Jo reprovingly. "Sensible girls for whom I do care whole papers of pins won't let me send them 'flowers and things', so what can I do? My feelings need a 'vent'.
Louisa May Alcott
#65. The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#67. When you're obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you'll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.
Evan Williams
#68. Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.
Marie De Gournay
#69. Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#70. And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs
#71. Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day ... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.
Michael Franti
#73. Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington
#74. Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
Susan Glaspell
#75. I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.
Jon Favreau
#76. That girl has done things to your head.'
He pats my back, 'Don't pretend she's not crawling inside of yours.
James W. Bodden
#77. A society which is liberal democratic cannot have public policy determined upon the basis of who has got the loudest voice - or who can brings things to a halt.
Charles Kennedy
#78. . . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.
Oscar Wilde
#80. We all attach things to our hearts, the things we value, the things we need, the things that make us who we are. But maybe ... maybe its only when our hearts are broken, that those things can fall inside.
Mia Sheridan
#81. Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
Neil Young
#82. I might have things to look forward to again, things I can't even imagine yet.
Meg Wolitzer
#83. I don't like things to feel forced. I just let it flow, if it's not flowing I just wait a bit in the studio or I go home.
Ryan Montgomery
#84. I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone.
Lynne Rae Perkins
#86. Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
B.B. King
#87. The dog is all things to all men.
Ian Niall
#88. This is a day in which one of our great perils is that of doing a thousand little things to the neglect of the one thing, which is preaching.6
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#89. X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.
Marcus Aurelius
#90. Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.
Shannon A. Thompson
#91. The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but "health" is simply not one of them, because it is given.
Michael Pollan
#93. What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond).
Joe Rogan
#94. There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor.
Richard Gough
#96. All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.
Kent Allan Rees
#97. If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.
Jim Rohn
#98. It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You don't want to be the guy Googling himself all day.
Jonathan Dee
#99. I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.
Lauren Lee Smith
#100. God has a lot of things to teach us in Heaven, things we didn't learn in this life.
David Berg
