Top 1200 Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things like a balanced budget amendment, things like read the bills for goodness sakes, things like that maybe Congress should only pass legislation that they apply to themselves as well.

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

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

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.

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.

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

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

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

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

Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to be-though I'd never be a choreographer-some things might ought to be a dance [laughs]. I've found that exploring an idea in different ways, it gives you different opportunities.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.