Things Quotes - page 93

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds... View quote
Patrick Pearse
People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them. View quote
Theodore Zeldin
I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings, A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things, If I could make a single song As lovely and as full of light, As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night. View quote
Sara Teasdale
It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them. View quote
Edith Wharton
She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes-she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life. View quote
Edith Wharton
Sometimes I don't know if my life is complicated, or if it's that I just think too much about things. View quote
John Scalzi
It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen. View quote
Elton John
You and your oven are capable of great things, Remember, no two ovens are the same. (Elton John)
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss. View quote
Lee Iacocca
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. View quote
Ralph Fiennes
Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams. View quote
Mary Martin
I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit. View quote
Margaret Sanger
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well. View quote
Garry Kasparov
Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation. View quote
Simon Blackburn
Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there. View quote
Simon Blackburn
There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
16. Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded. (Ramana Maharshi)
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I had many different assignments and I was doing things that I thought were important... no, I didn't either: I didn't think they were important. But I found out afterwards when I read up on my history that some of the things that I did were quite important. View quote
Frank Buckles
You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things. View quote
Ellen G. White
His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys. View quote
Maggie Stiefvater