Thing Quotes - page 11

Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for Free Willy. Or maybe I will. (Michael Madsen)
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic. View quote
Fiona Apple
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. View quote
Willa Cather
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. View quote
Gloria Steinem
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. View quote
Margot Fonteyn
You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing. View quote
Edie Sedgwick
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. View quote
Robert Browning
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. View quote
Sherwood Anderson
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic. (Muriel Spark)
If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership. View quote
Harriet Harman
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness. View quote
Frances Farmer
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. View quote
Mary Renault
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. View quote
Elizabeth Bishop
The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals. (Gordon Moore)
The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise. View quote
Richard Bach
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. View quote
John Cleese
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. View quote
W. Clement Stone