Thing Quotes
36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors
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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.
— Mark Twain
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Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.
— Brad Wilkerson
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts…
— William Matthews
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A boyfriend or a girlfriend may be fun, but cannot become a door to the deepest that is hidden in each and everyone. With a…
— Rajneesh
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
— Will Durant
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The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold!…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that…
— Barack Obama
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I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money
— Arthur Godfrey
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As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one…
— Will Cuppy
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Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100…
— Jan Carlzon
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Alan Webb is the best thing to happen in this event, but professionals and collegiates don't want to lose to high school guys. I don't…
— Gabe Jennings
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About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult…
— Donald Bradman
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If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.
— Dick Gregory
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Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know…
— Sam Smith
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Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no…
— Robert De Niro
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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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