Top 100 When Things Quotes
#1. Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.
Phil Simms
#2. Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
Brit Marling
#4. One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.
Bryce Courtenay
#5. She didn't usually mind being just a bit in over her head. She generally flailed like a becalmed ship, irritable and purposeless and panicked, when things were simple.
Julie Anne Long
#6. When things ain't going right, something is missing, which you only need to fill up.
Think about that. Alas !!
Bharat Budhani
#7. Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong.
Anna J. Michener
#8. Sometimes, when things look terrible ... you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great.
Walter Dean Myers
#9. You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
Gabriel Iglesias
#10. For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum
#11. There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.
Mariano Rajoy
#12. It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#13. Growing up, I had a very vivid imagination and Leonardo was like my best imaginary friend that I spoke to. When things were tough, or I was scared in an unsafe environment, I always imagined that the Ninja Turtles would come to the rescue.
Ruby Rose
#14. Blame yourself when things go wrong, and give credit to others when things go right. The process of giving other people credit is what it takes to build a team. Sandberg, one of America's great team builders, knows exactly what it takes to win.
Frank Luntz
#15. When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.
Dodie Smith
#16. It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
Georges St-Pierre
#17. I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.
Derek Jeter
#18. When things change, I think that's easy to get really wrapped up in the complaints.
Scott Heiferman
#19. Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.
Nelson Mandela
#20. I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?
Peter Lynch
#21. And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.' If I could, I would make it so nothing ever hit the ground again.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#22. When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.
Robert Asprin
#23. When the power of love takes over the love of power that's when things will change
Jimi Hendrix
#24. Without waiting for others acknowledge your purpose, remaining balanced when things don't work out, and uncompromising in your effort; realize that you have a piece of the universe for which she cannot exist without.
Forrest Curran
#25. Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.
Mother Teresa
#26. When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
Bipasha Basu
#27. You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.
Samantha Stosur
#28. I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.
Tori Amos
#29. In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.
Brian Michael Bendis
#31. People make babies. People make the rules. And then people make up gods so they have someone else to blame when things don't go right." "No,
R. Lee Smith
#32. It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.
Nick Jonas
#33. Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens - even when things go wrong.
Jim George
#34. The mark of a good team is how it reacts when things aren't going in its favor.
Chris Osgood
#35. And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.
Cressida Cowell
#36. Because you don't just walk away from someone when things get tough," Zac said. "You find a way to stick it out and figure out what's gone wrong.
Shana Norris
#38. I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.
Chris Lynch
#39. This is one of those perfect moments, the kind I need to save up and remember for when things get bleak.
Pittacus Lore
#40. I'm a big fan of not letting the audience of off the hook, as they say. I like it when things feel real, and that's oftentimes not comfortable.
John C. Reilly
#41. When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it.
Kurt Vonnegut
#42. When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
Shannon L. Alder
#43. She'd wanted Randall Parks from the moment her hormones kicked in. Her best friend, her guardian when things got rough, her knight in somewhat-rusted and dinged up armor - he wore many hats in her life and none more important than that of best friend.
Virginia Nelson
#44. The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.
Vivek Wadhwa
#45. Keep on going, even when things look bleak.
Ed Catmull
#46. I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that in America, which was real boom time.
Laurie Graham
#47. When things started to get dangerous, it was important to have people who knew as much as you did. That way, when you stupidly got yourself killed, someone would have a starting place to look for your murderer.
Patricia Briggs
#48. Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.
Nelly
#49. Life gets tangled and matter - especially when things start to go right.
Molly Looby
#50. And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
Ann Bancroft
#51. I much prefer it when things are straightforward. They don't have to be simple or easy, but they do have to be fair.
Cameron Dokey
#52. When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.
Donald A. Norman
#53. But what I am done with is waiting for when things are better. I'm done waiting for the pain to be all gone. I'm done trying to keep it at bay.
Heidi Cullinan
#54. I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.
Mark Sheppard
#55. You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.
Roger Penske
#56. After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help us navigate finer instincts, help us when we're wrong, encourage us when things are great.
Brian Geraghty
#57. If you are honest, hardworking, reasonably intelligent and have good common sense, you can do well in the investment field as long as you are not too greedy and don't get too emotional when things go against you.
Walter Schloss
#58. When things consistently fail to compute, it does point to a consistently undefined possibility.
Edwin F. Becker
#59. In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.
Phil Jackson
#60. When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
Steven Soderbergh
#61. Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.
Anthony Liccione
#62. Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.
Goswami Kriyananda
#63. Life is about moving, it's about change. And when things stop doing that they're dead.
Twyla Tharp
#64. Could it be - no one receives the peace of God without giving thanks to God? Is thankfulness really but the deep, contented breath of peacefulness? Is this why God asks us to give thanks even when things look a failure? When there doesn't seem much to give thanks for?
Ann Voskamp
#65. I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.
Greg Kinnear
#66. When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'
Cal Ripken Jr.
#67. When things are bad, we take a bit of comfort in the thought that they could always be WORSE. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get BETTER.' - Malcolm S. Forbes.
Rachel Renee Russell
#68. When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
Peter Mullan
#69. I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.
Leona Lewis
#70. Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important thing in the world. That's what makes them so great.
David Poole
#71. Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.
Curnonsky
#72. When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
Tennessee Williams
#73. The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.
Jane Austen
#74. There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.
Kristen Stewart
#75. I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.
Bryan Cranston
#76. This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.
You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.
Kat Howard
#77. There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.
Sarah Dessen
#78. When things suck, time stands still, but when you have an epiphany and you're having the time of your life, it goes by in fast forward.
Brent Crawford
#79. There's no use being satisfied when things
are done wrongly. I want perfection.
Bill Nichols
#80. If you can't laugh when things go bad
laugh and put on a little carnival
then you're either dead or wishing you were.
Stephen King
#81. Having a partner who is your wife traveling with you can be great. We each have our roles in the work and then can help each other out on the emotional front when things get stressful, which they are.
Peter Menzel
#82. Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.
Paul Gilding
#83. Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#84. Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets..
Cassandra Clare
#85. Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.
Travis Bradberry
#86. Can we stay faithful and persistent in our fidelity even when things seem not to succeed? I suppose Jesus could have chosen a strategy that worked better (evidence-based outcomes) - that didn't end in the Cross - but he couldn't find a strategy more soaked with fidelity that the one he embraced
Gregory J. Boyle
#87. It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
Sally Quinn
#88. This is God's promise to us. In Christ, the not-rightness of the world is already defeated. Jesus's cry of "it is finished" from the cross was true and real. When things aren't all right now, take comfort in the fact that they will be, forever.
Tullian Tchividjian
#89. Never stand around saying 'Poor thing' and being pitiful
when things are being killed. It makes them tough and harder to kill.
Remember that!
Knut Hamsun
#90. Every relationship has its problems, but what makes it perfect is if you still want to be together when things go wrong.
Isabelle Peterson
#91. It's easy for men to be friends as close as brothers when they're poor and struggling, but much harder when things are going well. Friends are never as close as blood. Remember that, Rat.
Ken Liu
#92. In business, when things aren't working it's time to mix it up.
Donald Trump
#93. Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough
Richard M. DeVos
#94. I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
Maisie Williams
#95. I thought of my dear late wife who relaxed me when things were stressful with the wonderful, simple words; "There is nothing to be done right now." {Drowndog}
Jon Edgell
#96. My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
Vanessa Paradis
#97. It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.
Karen Marie Moning
#98. When things are tough, and when I don't think I can last another minute, if I just hold on, hold on tight and with everything I got, the shit gets better.
James Frey
#99. When things go badly, individuals look for scapegoats. I just do not believe that barbed-wire fences or guns on our border will solve any of our problems.
Ron Paul
#100. I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.
Mary Quant
