Things Quotes
49655 Things quotes by 15725 unique authors
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When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
— Pope Pius X
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Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
— Saint Augustine
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The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the…
— Edgar Dale
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Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.
— Brendon Small
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The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more calm in our…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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When we have entered into divine covenants, the Holy Ghost is our comforter, our guide, and our companion. The fruits of the Holy Spirit are…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Joseph Smith visited me a great deal after his death, and taught me many important principles. . . . Among other things, he told me…
— Wilford Woodruff
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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.
— Mark Twain
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Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.
— Emmet Fox
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The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates…
— Anne O'Hare McCormick
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If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can…
— Thomas Merton
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All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?
— Lawrence Summers
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have…
— Henry Ford
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
— Frederick Buechner
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100…
— Jan Carlzon
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It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
— J. Willard Marriott
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Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things…
— Sean O Faolain
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The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences…
— Honore de Balzac
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