Things Quotes - page 94

The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the heart and body. Verily, Allâh will ask us about the halâl things we enjoyed, so what about the harâm! (Hasan al-Basri)
Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision. View quote
John Ashbery
I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things. View quote
Damien Hirst
Turgenev: The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. View quote
Tom Stoppard
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. View quote
Tom Stoppard
You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans. View quote
Mr. T
Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible. View quote
Richie Sambora
The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside. View quote
Lennox Lewis
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters. View quote
Roger Zelazny
"Nothing we did in those days has caused a change.” "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse,” I told him. View quote
Roger Zelazny
Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time. (Roger Zelazny)
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. View quote
Samuel Richardson
I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along. View quote
Terrence Howard
I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
Few things are more deceptive than memories. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. View quote
George Washington Carver
I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media. Not that I cared very much. View quote
Hans Blix
... there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things... View quote
Hans Blix
It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died. (Roberto Bolaño)
Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers. View quote
Joss Whedon
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. View quote
Joss Whedon
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. View quote
Guy Debord
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret. View quote
Guy Debord