Thing Quotes
36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors
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Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course…
— Mary Alice
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Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood…
— Nannie Helen Burroughs
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Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to…
— Roger Casement
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I…
— E. M. Forster
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Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
— Antonia Fraser
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
— Andre Gide
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To remain neutral, in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color, was the sort of…
— Albert Lutuli
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It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does…
— Bernard Malamud
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,…
— John Stuart Mill
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for…
— Thomas More
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The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been…
— Helen Reddy
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Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions,…
— Sarah Schulman
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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.
— Mark Twain
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Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.
— Jeanette Winterson
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We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same thing and say…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries your chair, no one gets…
— Rosie Perez
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I have to say that I think maybe they did her a favor, and maybe she'll actually get help. Coffee's one thing, but coke is…
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
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After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage…
— Mark Twain
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In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth…
— Unknown Author
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I move out here, and next thing I know I'm 25, and the only thing I've heard is, 'Can you get a coffee, can you…
— Bill Hader
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've…
— Irving Berlin
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There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.
— Cindy Margolis
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being…
— Anna Quindlen
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I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you…
— Steve Burns
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Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
— Aphra Behn
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