Top 1200 Temporal Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

I think there are things that need changing obviously. I think there are things that I think we overdid on the first record, I think there are things we didn't do enough of on the first record. And as a writer and directing this project, I know when to pull off now.

So one of the things that I learned in my old company, GSI Commerce that eBay bought in 2011, was we did a lot of things right, but we also did a lot of things wrong at that company. And so I've really learned focus is everything.

The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.

Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact" may not mean much to anybody. I could point it out though. I mean it's a quality that something has or does not have. Coherence. Well, some things are weak, some things are strong.

One of the best things to do with tablescapes in my experience, is really curating them with things that you've collected.

I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things.

I think, in life, the more you force things, they break. You just let things happen.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

You know how it is: when you politicize things, it is not the best ingredient to get things done.

If things come up, we can say, "We're not ready for this, let's move some things around."

Even the good things don't go to my head and I don't let the bad things affect me.

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

When you're young, you don't realize that things are going to pass and things will move and shift.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.

The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.

Real men don't know what they want for Christmas. Despite the fact I'm deeply disappointed every Christmas. I pride myself on not wanting anything. Children want things, women want things, dogs and cats want things, but men don't.

I just tell jokes, and I think a lot of people take it too seriously. It's not that I don't have things that I'm angry about in the world, and I think most decent human beings are upset about things, and even upset about things in their own country, but I'm not a particularly unhappy fellow.

I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.

I cannot appreciate anybody who creates controversy over things which do not exist. I can tolerate controversy over things which truly happened, but not over inexistent things.

All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

I believe in controlling the control elements. Something where we don't have control on certain things, those things you obviously cannot waste your energy in trying to figure out 'How can I control this?' You would much rather focus all your energy on the things that you can control.

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it's never done; it's never perfect, and so it's the process. It's like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

I don't think it is ever enough for a governing majority to simply be opposed to things. We have to be for things.

The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.

I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.

But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

I'm trying to just accept things, accept the beauty of things and the joy and positivity of things as they are in the moment and accept when it's not that way as well. Because, of course, none of it lasts forever. It's all going to change very rapidly. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. It doesn't have to be panic-inducing. It can be just the way life is.

Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with his hands. He liked to build things. I always loved to watch him do it, and I loved to build things on my own.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.

I take things from everywhere, and I still haven't figured out where I took [some things] from.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

Maybe the law don't always handle things, but that doesn't mean things don't get handled.

I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.

To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that its never done; its never perfect, and so its the process. Its like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.

Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things.