Quotes about Things, page 31

Having is not always as pleasing a thing as wanting. It is not logical but I have observed it to be true.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about things

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about things

The first thing to break down is the irreparable one.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about things

Man spoils the things more with the words than silence.

Quote by Mahatma Gandhi about things

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about things

I can picture things, like a painter would, though I'm not good at painting, either.

Quote by Donald O'Connor about things

That is the godawful thing about television today, performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out, you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over,...

Quote by Donald O'Connor about things

A base closure is a pretty usable thing, it'll present a long-term opportunity as well as a short-term problem, everybody right now is making plans.

Quote by Frank O'Hara about things

I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers, I do normal things, too.

Quote by Larisa Oleynik about things

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me, the worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort, to have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about things

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement, and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be...

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about things

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about things

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Quote by Ken Olsen about things

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously, apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

Quote by Carl Olson about things

I wanted it not to be true I wanted it not to be her plane I wanted it I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

Quote by Ted Olson about things

So Barbara wanted to be where things were happening, wanted to have opinions, wanted to express them, and wanted to live every moment of her life.

Quote by Ted Olson about things

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to...

Quote by Ted Olson about things

There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing, it's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway.

Quote by Timothy Olyphant about things

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Quote by Aristotle Onassis about things

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Quote by George Oppen about things