Quotes about things

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

The things we earnestly chased like they are inevitable now we see them and pass by....that's what i call GROWTH. Some will take 20 yrs to know this growth but those that feed on the Word have instant growth and prosperity. God be praised

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The point of the essay is to change things.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

Things do not change we change.

Change in all things is sweet.

All things are only transitory.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

All things are important to Elôm, even the little things.

It's the little things that make big things happen.

Hoarded things might easily become a menace; a mere fire-and-theft risk; a breeding-ground for destructive insects; a source of worry. Men would have plenty of anxieties, but there was no sense in accumulating worries over THINGS! That kind of worry destroyed your character. Even an unused coat, hanging in your closet—it wasn't merely a useless thing that did nobody any good; it was an active agent of destruction to your life. And your LIFE must be saved, at all costs. What would it advantage a

Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.

I never realized just how many things I really hated until you walked out the door and out of my life.

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the shadow they throw as they pass by, upon hillock or wall, is but the fleeting image of a mightier shadow, which, like the wing of an imperishable swan, floats over every soul that draws near to their soul. Do not believe that thoughts such as these can be mere ornaments, and without influence upon the lives of those who admit them. It is far more important that one’s life should be perceived than that

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change and newness, I think. What is truly new never changes.""You speak in riddles, aged progenitor.""The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. The truly new is somet

Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.

Things aren't important, but beauty is.

All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs can kill us, if we do not walk circumspectly.

If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us

Do what you want that works.

Love makes you do,the best of things.Love makes you do, the worst of things,It's a feeling extreme,that doesn't exist in between.

Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.

Sometimes we don’t have enough faith to do big things, it is immature faith

Day or night, good or bad…all things from within.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pañuelo... Nada la conmovía. (...) Nada conseguía ser más de lo que era en realidad. Eran solo cosas, prisioneras de su propia esencia.

If our life is built on God’s standards and we are responsible and zealous for the things of the kingdom, then we will have persistent success in life and wealth, which will not bring tears

Everyone changes so slowly, they don't even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that's supposed to already be here. But home is a time. Not just a place.

I read one study that indicated when a couple has been together for approximately three hundred hours, even most of those who are trying to be moral will do things they didn't intend originally. They may not even realize that is where the relationship is headed until it happens.

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

Things that you love or hate very much can be your destination

Everything around you is your life and your opportunity

You need to study all things related to your goal

Most of the time things against nature are scarier than the scariest things of nature

Principles can actually grow and overwhelm the things you are afraid of.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Explore those things you do that are satisfying

Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began?Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?

Smartass Disciple: Which one was first created, time or things?Master of Stupidity: No things, no changes. No changes, no time.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.

You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God

It is only with the heart that one can see, hear and feel clearly. Think of an image, music or movie that moves you. Things that we truly love touches our heart before our head analyzes them away. Once we think we understand them, they disappear... It is because simple things in life are invisible, inaudible and insensible to an analytical mind and an undiscerning heart. Let your heart hear the music -- be moved by images, people and places... for that makes you more alive than others.

It is only with the heart that one can see, hear and feel clearly. Think of an image, music or movie that moves you. Things that we truly love touch our heart before our head analyze them away. Once we think we understand them, they disappear... It is because simple things in life are invisible, inaudible and insensible to an analytical mind and an undiscerning heart. Let your heart hear the music -- be moved by images, people and places... for that makes you more alive than others.

...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

We grow old without knowing the reason.We build the walls for no good reason.We start the wars for lack of any reason.And we cry foul, when we all knew the real reason.Is it any wonder then, that we do the things we do.When all we have to do, which is hard for a lot of you,Is reason!

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

Whatsoever things are true...think on these things.

You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling.

All things are possible not only to God but also to the man who truly and firmly believes in Him

You must learn to overcome your cowardice, and put God, His principles and the things of His kingdom, that you are called to establish, first in your life

In life there will be so many pressing demands, and there will be a mass of pressure on you, but you must be so disciplined so that you can go through these things and come out victorious

Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. 'Old Misery's savings,' he said. 'Mike ripped out the mattress, but he missed them.''What are you going to do? Share them?''We aren't thieves,' T. said. 'Nobody's going to steal anything from this house. I kept these for you and me - a celebration.' He knelt down on the floor and counted them out - there were seventy in all. 'We'll burn them,' he sai

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.

Many things can be released into our lives in the spirit realm through a ministry

The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.

The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.

O Father, console them and please spare our country from that terrible disaster, not because we are any better but only out of grace. And if it has to be different, then teach me to pray: "Your will be done." O please protect him whom my soul lives! -From the journal of Diet Eman

Keeping things stable takes energy. I guess it's a little counter-intuitive, since you think of Newton's first law: a body at rest will stay at rest. But the reality is different. Think about an old water tank you find in the woods. It's sitting there, doing nothing, and yet it's slowly falling apart. Eventually the rust eats away at it beyond a certain threshold, and it collapses under its own weight.

If you want to Success in your life,Just remember two things1) Your God2) Your Death

Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world.

Doing the things you hate is living in a world of sin. Hell is staying in the place Jesus saved you from. That is, to live on your own, without God.

Smile puts a smile on all the good things in the world

Beautiful and alluring things of the world always fascinate us, and there is no way to have them unless we are beautiful.

If only they could see the things we hide behind those shining eyes and blissful smiles.

Some things look negative while in reality God’s glory is been manifested

Reality is how you look at it

Perception and reality are two different things.

We own the things that claim that we are theirs.

When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. (“Is that all there is?”)

It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or be vocal about it. Robots, the only things with a perfect lack of emotional capacity, are easily controlled, and I suddenly realized that’s why the military often trains people to suppress their emotions. Unfortunately for them, humans aren't machines. We feel, we love, we cry, we despair, and we rejoice. Anyone who’s ever tried to convince me not to feel is someone I shouldn’t have trus

You may be biggest coward & looser of the world if you can't even ask for the things that you need the MOST & want it anyway.

Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart.

When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it.

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.

The brain is both an emitter and a receiver of many forms of electromagnetic energy. There are fields of various forms around all living things, some we know about and others have yet to be documented.