Thing Quotes - page 15

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. (Anna Quindlen)
Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys. View quote
Dick Cheney
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. View quote
Martin Heidegger
That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Example is not the main thing in life -- it is the only thing. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. (Meg White)
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! View quote
Victor Hugo
By giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. View quote
Eknath Easwaran
Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. View quote
Hugh Walpole
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball. View quote
Joseph Joubert
All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true. View quote
David Cronenberg
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. View quote
Salvador Dalí
There is no such thing as an ugly woman. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. View quote
John D. MacDonald
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. View quote
Frida Kahlo
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. (Andy Warhol)
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: Your tax dollar will go farther. View quote
Wernher von Braun
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe