Top 1200 Temporal Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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.

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

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

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

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

So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable for his choices and actions in spiritual matters, so also is he accountable in temporal matters. It is through our own efforts and decisions that we earn our way in this life. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet. Ultimately, our own actions determine our blessings or lack of them. It is a direct consequence of both agency and accountability.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Even, Father, would I lose the love of fondling. How often I have released a grasp only to retain what I prized by 'harmless' longing, the fondling touch. Rather, open my hand to received the nail of Calvary, as Christ's was opened- that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds me now. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament; but it differs from the other sacraments in that it not only produces grace, but contains in a permanent manner the Author of Grace Himself. When, therefore, the Church bids us to adore Christ hidden behind the Eucharistic veils and to pray to Him for spiritual and temporal favors, of which we ever stand in need, she manifests faith in her divine Spouse who is present beneath these veils, she professes her gratitude to Him, and she enjoys the intimacy of His friendship

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

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.

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.

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.