Thing Quotes
36662 Thing quotes by 13492 unique authors
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Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
— Ernest Hemingway
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint,…
— Joseph de Maistre
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
— Horace
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Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop…
— Bill Cosby
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the…
— Booker T. Washington
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly…
— Emil Zatopek
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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Survival's the thing, isn't it?
— Janet Morris
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Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to…
— LaVell Edwards
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I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end…
— Robin Williams
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But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide,…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
— Anne Sexton
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[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why…
— Condoleezza Rice
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You really do learn by example... Especially women, sometimes we think somebody's going to rescue us, or somebody's going to teach us how to do…
— Marlo Thomas
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Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something…
— Marlo Thomas
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I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like…
— Leelee Sobieski
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It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It…
— Hope Solo
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The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work,…
— Francis Wayland Parker
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Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope…
— J. William Fulbright
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I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to…
— Woody Harrelson
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