Thing Quotes - page 20

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. (Robert A. Heinlein)
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. View quote
James Thurber
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. View quote
James Thurber
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. View quote
William James
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. View quote
William James
A thing is important if anyone think it important. View quote
William James
We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves. View quote
Michael Shermer
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything. View quote
William Hazlitt
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. View quote
William Hazlitt
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life. (Frank Zappa)
I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving. View quote
Fred Rogers
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. View quote
Umberto Eco
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. View quote
Maria Callas
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. View quote
Irving Berlin
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. View quote
Jacques Derrida
The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. View quote
Alanis Morissette
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. View quote
George Eliot
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others. View quote
George Eliot
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. View quote
Shania Twain
We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future. (John Dewey)
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. View quote
Ayn Rand
I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking. View quote
Naomi Watts
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. View quote
Tennessee Williams