Things Quotes - page 5

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. (Sylvia Plath)
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. View quote
Norman Cousins
The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure. View quote
M. C. Escher
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. View quote
Neil Armstrong
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. View quote
Bruce Lee
Good order is the foundation of all good things. View quote
Edmund Burke
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. View quote
Robert Frost
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. View quote
John von Neumann
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. (Alexander Hamilton)
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. View quote
Robert Benchley
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. View quote
John Ruskin
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. View quote
John Ruskin
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. View quote
Steven Weinberg
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. View quote
Margaret Mead
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. View quote
Henry Miller
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. (George Bernard Shaw)
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. View quote
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.... Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. View quote
Beatrix Potter
In love there are two things - bodies and words. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates