Top 100 Things We Quotes
#1. No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.
Billy Graham
#2. Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.
Mary Roach
#3. It's a messy business
being alive. But I'd rather have this short time with those I love than have an easy time. We forget about the things we saw that morning,and we choose to build a bigger sandcastle.
Emm Cole
#4. When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots.
Frederick Lenz
#5. There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.
Kami Garcia
#6. It is funny how the things we hate are the things we miss most when they are gone
Erin Bowman
#7. We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.
Thomas Bangalter
#8. That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer ... Something simply works ... We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure ...
John Bradshaw
#9. My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?
William Stafford
#10. Looking at the stars is a glimpse of history. Some of the things we see are millions of light-years away. Everything in the universe has a past but stars don't try to hide it. They just keep shinning, for everyone to see.
Kevin Alan Milne
#11. Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.
Chip Ingram
#12. The things we place greatest value upon are prioritised by their context in our lives.
Fennel Hudson
#13. I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.
Eliot Wigginton
#14. Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money ...
Peggy Noonan
#15. Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
Lloyd Alexander
#16. When we're picking someone who we want to spend a lot of time with, even perhaps for the rest of our lives, we generally try to pick someone who likes to do the things we like to do.
Greg Behrendt
#17. If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play
if we want to change the world
we must first show up on the field to score.
Paul Rusesabagina
#18. The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons is not because of all the interesting things we have learned over the past few centuries, but because of all the vital things we have forgotten.
David Bentley Hart
#19. The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
Gary Wolf
#20. The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.
W. Edwards Deming
#21. The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate.
Howard Tayler
#22. You're the voice
of reason. You think of the things we forget about.
Kendare Blake
#23. My brother said 'I want to start acting,' and me and my sister just said, 'Oh we'll try it, we'll see.' It was just one of those things - we were just like, 'Oh, we'll see what happens.'
Willow Shields
#24. America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.
Matt Taibbi
#25. How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel De Montaigne
#26. We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don
Baruch Spinoza
#27. The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.
Guy Laliberte
#28. Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power.
Naomi Judd
#29. As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.
Scott Hahn
#30. And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.
David Plouffe
#31. The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
C.S. Lewis
#32. My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes, we simply have to believe.
Garth Stein
#33. The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#34. Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want.
Sara Farizan
#35. Sugar, the things we hold closest to our hearts are the things we just can't seem to see. Jackson Whalen
Suzanne Palmieri
#36. Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.
Alanis Morissette
#37. Maybe we're just missing things we've lost, or hoping for what we want to come.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#38. For all our guessing and speculating, there were a few things we all agree on. Things we knew to be fact.
The drug was never meant to get out.
Ordinary people were never supposed to develop extraordinary powers.
Divines weren't supposed to take over the world.
But they did.
Violet Cross
#39. Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.
Michael Fassbender
#40. recognizing in that moment that there were some things we are meant to keep for ourselves, too precious to share with others. She
Hala Alyan
#41. There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house.
Ray Bradbury
#42. There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it.
Philip Zimbardo
#43. I think thas true but love doesmake us do things we regret
Anonymous
#44. There are things we want, and things we may have ... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.
Karen Chance
#45. We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
Mitch Albom
#46. Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.
Erica Bauermeister
#47. The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity.
Thomas Merton
#48. I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going
Paullina Simons
#49. Understand the anatomy of fear. It is your own creation. Most of the things we are afraid of never even happen. So why let your fears own your life?
Robin S. Sharma
#50. One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.
Dossie Easton
#51. The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
Thomas More
#52. There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
Chuck Palahniuk
#53. There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
Ferdinand Marcos
#54. If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
Tom Clancy
#55. If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
Maya Angelou
#56. Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.
Ian Dunbar
#57. The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.
Mike Jarvis
#58. Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we're good enough.
Martha Beck
#59. Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.
Simon Sinek
#60. Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued.
Richard Siken
#61. There is a talk that every father has with his son in which he brings the child to understand that there are ways we must act, things we must say, but inside, we are still us, we are family.
Adam Johnson
#62. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.
Gabrielle Zevin
#63. We are accustomed to losing things we love and people we adore but that doesn't change the fact that loss hurts.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#64. Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
David Lynch
#65. Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.
Milton Friedman
#66. ...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions.
Jamil Ahmad
#67. We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.
Will Smith
#68. Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can't see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.
Simon Sinek
#69. None of us ask for some things. We don't ask to be born where we were. We don't ask for those things which limit us. We have to do the best we can with what we have where we are. And we can try to change things, but you can't do any of that if you refuse to accept where you are.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#70. And that's the tricky thing about life, really, that the things we want most will kill us.
Donald Miller
#71. Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration.
Paulo Coelho
#72. Well, sure, maybe religion serves a purpose, but maybe religion's role is not to give us the answers, but to give us the questions, not to resolve the mystery of life, but to increase our wonder at the things we don't know.
Anna Hammond
#73. Long after you and I are gone, God will still be at work - and many of the things we prayed for will finally come to pass.
Billy Graham
#74. For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world, dearly, unforgivingly, must fade.
Lan Samantha Chang
#75. When we blaze, when we fight, when we rejoice, then I am all us, for that is all we are. When I am ... afraid ... we do not understand, do not like these things. We are me. It is ... frightening, having to be me.
Kate Griffin
#76. If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.
Vivienne Westwood
#77. Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.
LeCrae
#79. Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
Orison Swett Marden
#80. I knew in that moment that everything happens for a reason, but we can't always know the reason when the journey begins. Some things we can only understand at the end of our journey.
Mike Ericksen
#81. The lazy flesh disappeared. Our muscles became hard as steel, refined on the anvil of an experienced blacksmith. Even our faces changed. Among other things, we learned to ride, to fence, to take a fall. And these we learned for life.
Ernst Junger
#82. The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
#83. In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime.
John Desmond Bernal
#84. Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
Frank Crane
#85. Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know ... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.
Jonathan Haidt
#86. If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.
Joyce Meyer
#87. When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.
Augustine Of Hippo
#88. I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.
Tim O'Brien
#89. A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.
Tony Robbins
#90. Such Small Things:
For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever.
Brian Andreas
#91. What propels things into being is intention, attention, and strong emotion. If we are not careful, we can manifest things we are afraid of, because the Spirit World reads resistance the same way it reads desire. According to shamanic wisdom, what you resist is what you become.
Jose Luis Stevens
#92. Between the world we see
and the things we fear,
there are doors.
When they are opened,
nightmares become reality.
A Haunting
#93. I don't know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.
John Steinbeck
#94. I believe that the things we put numbers on are not necessarily the things that count the most. you can't measure the stuff that makes us human.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#95. We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.
Byron Katie
#97. We don't miss what we never had, but we miss terribly things we almost had. And we miss things we used to have most of all. Through we hope and pray for our relationships, our looks, and our lives to improve, having more also means having more to lose.
Tonya Hurley
#98. Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.
J.L. Austin
#99. Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.
Steve Pavlina
#100. What we don't often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we are - in the things we do - in the things we say.
A.J. Darkholme
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
