Thing Quotes - page 21

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. (Haruki Murakami)
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. View quote
Alfred Marshall
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. View quote
George Carlin
On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art. (André Malraux)
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. View quote
André Malraux
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. View quote
M. H. Abrams
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another. View quote
Jasper Johns
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for -- whether it's a field, or a home, or a country. View quote
Thornton Wilder
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture. View quote
John Constable
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. View quote
John D. Rockefeller