Quotes of: Doing-the-right-thing Keyword

My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that's one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I'm on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.

Gerard Way

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

Martin McDonagh

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our...

Rick Riordan

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music d...

The Analects

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are...

William S. Burroughs

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

The Reptile Room

The question is not whether or not change and challenge are going to happen. They are. The question is, when they do happen, how are we going to choose to look at them, contextualize them, and navigate them?

The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. You won't be able to forgive yourself for not doing things differently until you stop wishing things were different

Love on a Spring Morning

I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.

The Last Werewolf

They say ol’ man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He’s the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.

This Side of Brightness

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.

Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Rules for Disappearing by Witness Protection Prisoner #18A7R04M: Don’t fall into a routine. Shake things up. Doing the same thing over and over makes you feel comfortable. And feeling comfortable is bad.

The Rules for Disappearing

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

Tuesdays with Morrie

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

Tuesdays with Morrie

I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

Ten Things I Hate about You

True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

Venus in Arms

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

Vegan, Virgin, Valentine

CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

If you decide to focus on one thing at a time, instead of trying to solve everything at once, and just do that one thing, then you will feel a sudden decrease in stress.

Yes! You Can Manage Stress