Thing Quotes
36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors
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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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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had…
— C.S. Lewis
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Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that…
— Oswald Chambers
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Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of their determination fades with time. The important thing is not that your resolve…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.
— Marcus Aurelius
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That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that…
— Carrie Underwood
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I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.
— Reese Witherspoon
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There's no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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