Thing Quotes - page 13

There's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere, if you'll only listen for it. (Thomas Hughes)
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. View quote
Amelia Earhart
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. View quote
Linus Torvalds
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. View quote
Agatha Christie
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. View quote
Herbert Hoover
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. View quote
Remy de Gourmont
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. View quote
Muhammad Ali
The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman. View quote
Alexander Smith
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. View quote
E. B. White
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. View quote
James A. Michener
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. View quote
Václav Havel
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. View quote
George Gissing
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. View quote
Yoshida Kenkō
I don't like animals. It's a strange thing, I don't like men and I don't like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me. View quote
Samuel Beckett
I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me. View quote
Nicole Kidman
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. (Bernard Mandeville)
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer