Quotes of: Pleasant-thing Keyword

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

Barry Schwartz

Captain Reese: An on-the-job shooting is still considered a homicide. It's never an easy ride. If you do the right thing, I'll always have your back. Do the wrong thing and cross me - I will personally throw you under the bus.

End of Watch

It's what is strange about doing a job that is also the thing you love, the thing you feel passionate about. People get to the point where they're burned out and disillusioned by the whole thing because when things aren't going well at work it also m...

Teddy Thompson

We can discover much about God by looking at nature. Take the Trinity for example. The Trinity is sort of like an apple. You've got the seeds, the flesh, and the skin. Three different things. Still, together they form one thing, an apple. And under n...

Alan de Jager

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don't happen. It's the book you wr...

Samuel R. Delany

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All th...

Love

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

Warren Beatty

Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy.

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

There are creatures in this world, small things and pretty things, which burn within them a fire for survival.

Discovering Aberration

Faith is not just thinking you can do things, but believing god can handle all things!

ERDEN FLAME OF THE CREATOR

Doubt is the thing that’ll kill you, the only thing, and it’ll kill your friends, too.

Beaufort

Good things happen to those who wait. It's the waiting that takes the longest.

Beyond The Silence of Love & Faith

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

Ozwald Boateng

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Elbert Hubbard

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

All Things Considered

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

The Alchemist

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

Among Others

Screw the right thing to do. What do you want to do?

The Kissing Booth

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

The Reapers

People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.

The Secret Life of Bees

Prioritize activities under the captions “important” and “urgent”. Do the urgent things first and the important things later.

Shaping the dream