Things When Quotes

#1. You can do amazing things when you believe.

Gerard Way

#2. The question was, What could we do?
Could we get up every morning and take showers and put on clothes and go to work? Could we think straight? Could we not say crazy things when they occurred to us?
Some of us could; some of us couldn't. In the world's terms, though, all of us were tainted.

Susanna Kaysen

#3. When you are calm, when you are still, you see things as they truly are. You don't distort things. When you are not calm, it's easy to get confused and angry. All of us make a lot of mistakes and create a lot of suffering when we are not calm.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.

Kathleen Hanna

#5. I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.

Roger Zelazny

#6. We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact
with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

Leo Buscaglia

#7. Although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

Anais Nin

#8. Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

Chuck Hagel

#9. We forget that things can only be things when there is something which is not a thing, the space.

Chris Matakas

#10. Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.

Macaulay Culkin

#11. I like to shop. I don't always buy things when I shop, but I think it's fun to go out and look at the worlds of colors. I love to roam through supermarkets. I am a great lover of household products. I particularly like the packaging of cereal boxes.

Frederick Lenz

#12. It still beat with a trip and a hammer, for that is the way a heart must go. But, whereas before it had woven only dark things when it dwelled upon my cousin, now within the fabric of my heart there ran, for him and him alone, one single strand of pure, untarnishable gold.

Cameron Dokey

#13. Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

John McWhorter

#14. I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won't have to be bored anymore.

Sam Savage

#15. He was always inclined to read a fictitious sombreness into things when the shadows began to creep over the world and it was still too early for a cocktail.

P.G. Wodehouse

#16. There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#17. Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

George Santayana

#18. I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.

Orhan Pamuk

#19. My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path.

Dante Alighieri

#20. I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.

David Mitchell

#21. We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?

Judith McNaught

#22. I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

Nora Ephron

#23. I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.

Will Ferrell

#24. I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they're beautiful things when they're done.

Jerry Seinfeld

#25. I will see great things when I am willing to be seen. I will receive new eyes that see the mysteries of GOd's own life, but only when I allow God to see me, all of me, even those parts that I myself do not want to see.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#26. It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things.

Don Williams

#27. God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

Paulo Coelho

#28. When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

Lev Yilmaz

#29. We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.

Colin Cooper

#30. Repression isn't the answer. I know that. It's one of the things that punish the body for what's closed up in the mind. It's always so much easier to analyze someone else, always much harder to see things when it's yourself.

Nora Roberts

#31. Of course she's right. How bad are things when your clinically insane mother is more rational than you are?

Susan Ee

#32. To care for things when others don't care, that's what makes you human.

Adam Gottbetter

#33. 'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

Dave Grohl

#34. I do all kind of fun things when I'm unconscious.

Chris Colfer

#35. If you are a good person who does good things when you have only a little, then you will be a good person who does even more good things when you have a lot.

Larry Winget

#36. I like it here. I just want to walk the wind, watch you play rugby. Make kites for Agnes and do things, when I can - and come to bed with you at the end of the day. I've stopped running."
"You fell?"
"I landed.

K.J. Charles

#37. And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

Edward Hirsch

#38. As you said, he had everything. That made him feel safe and powerful. People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful.

Becky Chambers

#39. You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [ ... ] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky."
"We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, comes later.

Agatha Christie

#40. It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

Zora Neale Hurston

#41. People do incredibly stupid things when they are frightened

Kirsten Beyer

#42. Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.

Charles Eisenstein

#43. Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day ... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day ... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things ... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures ...

Charles M. Schulz

#44. Wishes, I am finding, are fickle things when they turn on you.

Jennifer Ellision

#45. We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

Agatha Christie

#46. Moreover, to endure labour; nor to need many things; when I have anything to do, to do it myself rather than by others; not to meddle with many businesses; and not easily to admit of any slander.

Marcus Aurelius

#47. I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

Kate McKinnon

#48. I don't use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it's never because I use my brain.

Russell Simmons

#49. What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.

Adam Hasner

#50. Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.

Mitch Albom

#51. I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.

Janet Morris

#52. It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things. When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things, can you?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#53. Men did stupid things when they got romantic ideas in their heads.

Ronie Kendig

#54. Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Boethius

#55. Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#56. But you lose the opportunity to share the good things when you do something bad.

Courtney Maum

#57. Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

E. Nesbit

#58. People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

Roy H. Williams

#59. Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.

Michael Keaton

#60. It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

Roger Moore

#61. To a man whose confidence is in his own strength, the gospel will be foolishness. But God shows his children things when it is imperative - when it is important for us and when it serves his purpose.

Jose Henriquez

#62. One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

Heather Langenkamp

#63. It is the responsiblity of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.

Michael Moore

#64. Isn't it weird? The way you remember things when it's gone.

Sarah Dessen

#65. You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

Heather O'Neill

#66. It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved.

Jeff Ament

#67. I love to laugh, and laughter is one of my favorite things. When you have a really good laugh, you feel great afterwards.

Bill Engvall

#68. I bought a new pair of pajamas with pockets, which is great, cause now i don't have to hold things when I sleep.

Demetri Martin

#69. If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

JC Chasez

#70. The flesh is that voice in your head that tells you, "If it feels good do it." It tells us that we need things when we don't, and if we followed it we'd sleep too late, eat too much, and eventually come to poverty. That's where the heart wants to lead us.

Darlene Schacht

#71. She could do things when her body was busy that she could at no other time, things like assemble her worries into ranks, each rank commanded by a hope.

John Crowley

#72. I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

Brian Eno

#73. Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.

Don Porter

#74. I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

Kami Garcia

#75. You can do amazing things when people love you.

Earl Lloyd

#76. You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are ...

Adam Rex

#77. I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?

Elie Wiesel

#78. I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different ... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

Meg Tilly

#79. One of the most necessary things when you're writing? The waste basket.

Enkelejd Lamaj

#80. You become more attractive when you love yourself. You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.

Amy Poehler

#81. Amazing how much more you appreciate the little things when all the big things are taken from you.

Marilyn Grey

#82. (Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.

Willie Nelson

#83. I was really in to shiny things when I was younger and I stole a shiny tag for my dog. I didn't get caught. I hope I don't go to jail for that.

Nicholas Hoult

#84. We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

Comte De Lautreamont

#85. We never read the full explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose that some irresponsible scribbler is trying to defraud us; we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars and be happy.

Mark Twain

#86. I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

Taylor Swift

#87. I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.

Chevy Stevens

#88. The test of a man's religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

Oswald Chambers

#89. You can only give yourself a chance to find right things when you stop chasing wrong things.

Auliq Ice

#90. I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There's nothing to say you don't make a profit by doing good.

Teresa Heinz

#91. You don't get it, do you? [ ... ] We're going to be together for a long time. There's no need to rush things when you know that.

Jillian Dodd

#92. It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

Louis C.K.

#93. A good Catholic boy like myself? You must be joking. Anyway, it kind of changes things when your equipment's used for business instead of pleasure

Tabitha McGowan

#94. Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Deborah Harkness

#95. Your best bet is to enjoy things when life brings you something good, and tough it out as best you can when it brings you the usual shit storm.

Dima Zales

#96. By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.

Pat Summitt

#97. I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.

Andy Warhol

#98. I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

Clyde Edgerton

#99. But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that wil carry him into places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

Paulo Coelho

#100. Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.

Heidi W. Durrow