Things Quotes - page 96

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love.... The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love. (Mother Teresa)
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability. View quote
Abby Sunderland
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor. View quote
Abby Sunderland
It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail. View quote
Abby Sunderland
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. View quote
Galileo Galilei
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Man is many things, but he is not rational. (Oscar Wilde)
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good. View quote
Oscar Wilde
After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Let the business of the world take care of itself ... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God. View quote
William Booth
God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them. (François Fénelon)
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived. View quote
François Fénelon
As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation. View quote
François Fénelon
You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself. View quote
Don DeLillo
We need time to lose interest in things. View quote
Don DeLillo