Thing Quotes
36662 quotes by 13492 authors
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I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.
— Charlize Theron
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Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.
— Dan Millman
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Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
— Paul Strand
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A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.
— Emily Post
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Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing…
— Russell Hoban
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Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.
— Grandma Moses
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There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth…
— Richard Bach
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It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.
— Luigi Pirandello
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The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's…
— James M. Barrie
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a…
— Art Linkletter
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The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop.…
— Angelina Jolie
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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.
— Dante Alighieri
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What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive…
— Stephen Covey
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I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must…
— Walter Russell
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Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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