Thing Quotes - page 17

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. View quote
Joseph Conrad
When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. View quote
Peter Drucker
I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, - studied for, - thought for, - and, more than all, it must be prayed for. View quote
Thomas Arnold
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. (Karl Marx)
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. View quote
Milan Kundera
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. View quote
Isaac Newton
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. View quote
John Locke
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. View quote
Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. View quote
Albert Einstein
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. (Thomas Aquinas)
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. View quote
Tony Blair
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. View quote
Josh Billings
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. View quote
Martin Luther
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own. View quote
Colum McCann