Things Quotes
49655 Things quotes by 15725 unique authors
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The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on…
— Donald Knuth
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
— Hippocrates
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Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just…
— Kate Winslet
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You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.
— Katherine Jenkins
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I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can…
— Doris Day
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When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then…
— Confucius
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Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I…
— Jimmy Carter
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The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.
— Charles Tart
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Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.
— Unknown Author
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Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all,…
— Thomas a Kempis
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.…
— Oscar Wilde
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With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be…
— Bertrand Russell
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles…
— Bertrand Russell
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Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told…
— Quentin Crisp
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Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables,…
— Edith Hamilton
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A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will…
— Seneca the Younger
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The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person…
— Richard Bach
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As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries…
— Rusty Schweickart
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Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be…
— Gordon Cooper
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But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I…
— Unknown Author
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