Thing Quotes
36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors
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Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful from within, and…
— Rajneesh
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You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the…
— Jesse Bering
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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
— David Copperfield
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The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second,…
— Janet Erskine Stuart
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Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us…
— Frederick William Faber
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
— Ernest Gaines
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I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting…
— Barbara Jordan
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Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on…
— Jim Rohn
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People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the…
— Michael Josephson
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Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that…
— Leslie Groves
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have…
— Wilbur Smith
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
— Agnes de Mille
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The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
— J. H. Oldham
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
— Andre Gide
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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it…
— Sun Tzu
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
— Vince Gill
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My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like,…
— Britney Spears
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It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
— Georg Brandes
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Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
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The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God,…
— Oswald Chambers
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