Thing Quotes
36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors
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I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'
— John McCain
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Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
— Louise Bourgeois
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How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent…
— Jenny Holzer
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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once…
— Ed Koch
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Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a…
— Robin Morgan
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All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop…
— Toni Morrison
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All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I…
— Toni Morrison
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The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I…
— Ken Saro-Wiwa
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They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the…
— Douglas Yates
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You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the border, and you've…
— Rush Limbaugh
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The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs…
— Elayne Boosler
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Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as…
— Thomas Paine
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Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
— William Shakespeare
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I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher…
— Beyonce Knowles
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I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.
— Beyonce Knowles
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Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the…
— William A. Clark
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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after…
— John Ruskin
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand,…
— H.G. Wells
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She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I…
— Brad Paisley
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Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That…
— Sara Parkin
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You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make…
— Wangari Maathai
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I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not…
— Unknown Author
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
— Seneca the Younger
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One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.
— Aristotle
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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The…
— Simone Weil
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