Top 1200 Superficial Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

These liberals are the craziest things. The Constitution, they see things in it that aren't there and ignore things which are. The 14th Amendment, nothing to do with gay marriage.

Even if we're not doing anything wrong, there are certain things we want to do that we don't think can withstand the scrutinizing eye of other people. And those are often the most important things that we do. The things we do when other people are watching are things that are conformist, obedient, normal, and unnotable.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity, and fear. They also have something called frosting. It seems to represent how they spend almost all the seconds of their existence in doing superficial, artificial, temporary, pleasant-tasting, nice appearing projects and spend very few actual seconds of their lives developing their eternal beingness.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth, like gravity, that can make things a bit challenging. One of the fun things about getting here is the zero gravity and floating around. But it also makes things very difficult.

A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

You can look back on a lot of things and things that could have been changed, but ultimately those things make you who you are. It builds character. I'm OK with that.

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don't happen. It's the book you wrote; that's all.

One of the good things about being away is to digest things and maybe learn from things and see if there are better ways to get to where you want to be.

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

I want to share the things I've done, the things I've survived, the things I've struggled through.

Do fewer things and do them well. Focus on the things only you can do. Do the important things which must be done now.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.

Every culture has beauty and decorations of body. This is not of itself superficial, this is very human. Decorating when it becomes out of balance, when it becomes about the materialism, about how many shoes, how many handbags, how expensive they are, and the status, then it's no longer just about an expression or looking beautiful, that's more about 'I HAVE MONEY, I AM RICH'. It felt out of balance.

You can always hear a director saying, 'Well I don't really know what this piece is saying, so therefore, I reject it.' There are any number of things you can anticipate going wrong, and sometimes they go right. But I think the things you like most are the things that get rejected first. That's just how things work.

Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious things.

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live life according to the mind. Mind has rules and regulations, mind has rituals. Live life from the standpoint of no-mind so that you can bloom into unpredictable flowers.

What I want from you, those are just things like this. Not hot things, but warm things.

You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central. This is never really admitted. You have to cover the pages. You have to have those people do things. And the things they do have to be relevant to the entire concern. The specific things they do don't much matter, you just have to have them do something that counts.

Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

Standup is a place where, as long as it's funny enough, you can say your most embarrassing things, shameful things and disappointing things.

The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.

As consumers, we are making choices,and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.