Things Quotes - page 7

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. (William Howard Taft)
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? View quote
Richard Brautigan
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult. View quote
Richard Brautigan
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. View quote
E. B. White
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. View quote
James A. Michener
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. View quote
Robert J. Sawyer
Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. View quote
David Hume
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. (Eugene McCarthy)
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. View quote
Lewis Carroll
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. View quote
Denis Diderot
Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. View quote
William Wordsworth
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. View quote
Coco Chanel
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. View quote
Edgar Degas
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. View quote
Warren Buffett
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (Kahlil Gibran)
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. View quote
Steve Wozniak
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. View quote
Stendhal
Great men are sometimes so even in small things. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues