Things Quotes - page 4

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. (David Brin)
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There are more things to admire in men than to despise. View quote
Albert Camus
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. View quote
Muhammad Ali
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. View quote
Richard Feynman
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. View quote
Mary Tyler Moore
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - well, that's Memoirs. View quote
Will Rogers
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. (Mark Twain)
I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record. View quote
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things. View quote
Walt Disney
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. View quote
Thomas Edison
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. View quote
Isaac Newton
The world is the totality of facts, not of things. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were and ask "why not?" View quote
John F. Kennedy
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Time bears away all things, even the mind. View quote
Virgil
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency. (Harry S. Truman)
What is right and what is practicable are two different things. View quote
James Buchanan
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. View quote
William Hazlitt
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. View quote
Henry David Thoreau