Things Quotes
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
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Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.
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When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that is a huge contribution to their humanity.
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“But the daily tasks and prayers of men, the ancient city tired from having lived too long, the ravaged marble and worn out bells, all those things oppressed by the weight of memories, all those perishable things were rendered humble in comparison with the tremendous blazing Alps that tore at the sky with their thousand unyielding spikes, a vast, solitary city that was waiting, perhaps, for a new race of Titans.”
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The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
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You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?
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Sometimes we need to be reminded that there are things we are facing that only God can save us from.
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I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."
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It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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Sometimes things aren't what you think they are, and even when things seem really bad, it can work out.
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“I’m not really sure how we’ve arrived at this ridiculous juncture, and I’d be a great deal happier if we weren’t pointing these things at one another, wouldn’t you?”
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I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?
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Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.
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Everybody goes through rough things in their lives, us included. The best advice we can give is to never give up, and always believe in yourself because when you do that, anything is possible.
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Sometimes it's necessary for your sanity to hone in on the things that you love and the people you enjoy hanging out with.
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[on 8/24/04, before entering a Los Angeles hospital for heart valve replacement surgery] If things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour and a half.
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Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.
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Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.
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I'm always tweeting about food and things that I've made.
