Things - Quotes
Being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It`s about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
We only see two things in people: what we wanna see and what they wanna show us.
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.
I don`t believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you`re spending your time doing something worthwhile.
You ask me what I want this year, And I try to make this kind and clear Just a chance that maybe we`ll find better days Cause I don`t need boxes wrapped in strings And designer love and empty things. Just a chance that maybe we`ll find better days
I`ve made billions of dollars of failures [...]. None of those things are fun, but also they don`t matter. What matters is companies that don`t continue to experiment or embrace failure eventually get in the position where the only thing they can do is make a Hail Mary bet at the end of their corporate existence. I don`t believe in bet-the-company bets.
I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. [...] We`re all vulnerable.
If love [...] is the reason for being moral, what relevance does the existence or non-existence of a deity have? Why can we not be prompted to the ethical life by our own charitable feelings? The existence of a god adds nothing to our moral situation, other than an invisible policeman who sees what we do (even in privacy and under cover of night), and a threat of post-mortem terrors if we misbehave. Such additions are hardly an enrichment of the moral life, since the underpinning they offer consists of fear and threats of punishment: which is exactly what, among other things, the moral life seeks to free us from.