Quotes of: Useful-thing Keyword

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Cease and Desist

Time can only rob us of the things we can touch; it can't rob us of the things we feel.

Chips of Red Paint

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

Roger Milla

The things that frighten us most are those that remind us of our fragile existence

Things That Go Bump In My Head

We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.

Pearl in the Sand

The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.

Why Us?: When Bad Things Happen to God's People

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Horace Mann

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Victor Hugo

It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

Joan Blades

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

Jaron Lanier

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I love my wife... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark t...

Richard Schiff

I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are wrong. Our expectations are subtly twisted. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and b...

Pearl in the Sand

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them t...

Simon Pegg

I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer chan...

Mother Teresa

Journal writing Helps Us Heal. That's one of the therapeutic methods to helping us cope with hardship or painful situations in our lives. Writing in a journal allows us to make sense of things and also helps us to let go of some things. It’s a way ...

Angie Karan Krezos

What is boredom? Endless repetitions, like, for example, Navidson’s corridors and rooms, which are consistently devoid of any Myst-like discoveries thus causing us to lose interest. What then makes anything exciting? Or better yet: what is exciting...

Mark Z. Danielewski

It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well a...

The Imitation of Christ

We are all glorified motion sensors. Some things only become visible to us when they undergo change. We take for granted all the constant, fixed things, and eventually stop paying any attention to them. At the same time we observe and obsess over sma...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

These words [of Romans 12:1-2] are overflowingly rich in consolation; for just then when afflictions come over us, we should be of good courage, because that is the good will of God. Therefore we should be greatly pleased when things happen to us whi...

Commentary on Romans

We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.

Neil Cavuto