Thing Quotes
36662 quotes by 14587 authors
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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
— Diane Arbus
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I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I didn't have no…
— Tupac Shakur
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One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.
— George Carlin
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One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.
— George Carlin
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The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you…
— George Carlin
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The future will soon be a thing of the past.
— George Carlin
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What was the best thing before sliced bread?
— George Carlin
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man…
— Christopher Hitchens
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages:…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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