Things Quotes - page 8

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features. (Joseph Joubert)
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. View quote
Russell Baker
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. View quote
Russell Baker
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim. View quote
Frida Kahlo
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. View quote
E. F. Schumacher
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better... View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. (Sydney J. Harris)
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. View quote
Winston Churchill
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. View quote
Ben Stein
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. View quote
Peter Drucker
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. View quote
Michael Faraday
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. View quote
Henry Ford
If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things. (René Descartes)
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. View quote
Christopher Morley
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. View quote
Isaac Newton
Silly people say stupid things, clever people do them. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach