Top 1200 Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I surround myself with positive, happy people. And I always try to balance things that I have to do with things that I want to do.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things, watched things, without giving them a name, without coming to a conclusion? What do you think would happen? You would transcend everything.

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.

Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan for in a sense. I do not think Dr. Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.

There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of things about who lives and who dies, civilizations that rose and fell, all the way down to individual characters. That becomes the state of where you left your galaxy. The endings have a lot more sophistication and variety in them.

True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.

There are two things you can do in politics: you can sit around waiting for things to happen, or you can start doing them.

It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss.

Most of the things in 'The Things They Carried' didn't happen to me. Ninety-five percent of it's invented. It's not what occurred.

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.

I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.

For reason's measurements, which attain unto temporal things, do not attain unto things that are free from time-just as hearing does not attain unto whatever is not-audible, even though these things exist and are unattainable by hearing.

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.

The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

Women in my family are the center of things. All good things emanate from them. The guys usually mess up.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

I realized that there are just certain things in life that are private. I have things in my past - like everyone - that I'm not proud of.

Trixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it's how I deal with things. It's wonderful.

I try to not assume things are sexism. I'm trying to be good natured about why things are happening.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Just as an audience member, I've always preferred dark things and very heavy, emotional things.

I think you have to proactively seek out things that inspire you and consume as much of those things as possible.

I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.

There are things about my mum that I only realised later, things that make me admire her.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not there to look glamorous. We're there to tune into the frequency of the Earth and the connective tissues of those things that we are responding to - language, colour, costume, literature, poetry, cuisine, perfume - these are the things that make up the desire to throw paint on a canvas, these are the things that create the excitement for building a new language!

It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you take for granted the days spent doing nothing when you could have been with them. Anyone can be taken, at any time in our lives, but we always wait until they're gone to say the things we never had the courage to before.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

There are things in life that I enjoyed before music, so I'm just taking advantage of those things now that I can.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

I started writing songs at 14 about things I was living at school, and the things I felt at that age.

It's one of those things, as a team sport there are always things you try to find to come together and bond.

There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

One of the beautiful things about being a part of 'Star Wars' is that it's one of those few things that are community-building in that way. Maybe that way of putting it is a little self-important. But it is something we all have a connection to, something everybody knows about. There aren't that many of those things.

The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

I think the best way to show appreciation for things going well is to make things better.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

I don't read a lot of things, and if I hear things, I don't really think about them because it's useless.