Thing Quotes

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Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other. — Stephen Fry
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom… — Jean Giraudoux
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords… — Gelett Burgess
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it… — Aristotle
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what… — John Selden
We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on… — Theodore Dreiser
That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body. — Aristotle
They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I… — George Carlin
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down,… — George Carlin
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable… — George Bernard Shaw
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to… — Elbert Hubbard
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them. — Oscar Wilde
It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were… — Pat Robertson
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for… — Ambrose Bierce
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting. — Heinrich Heine
I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as… — Malcolm X
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed. — Mark Twain

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