Thing Quotes - page 4

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! (Tennessee Williams)
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart. View quote
Camille Pissarro
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. View quote
John Constable
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. View quote
Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever does. View quote
Margaret Mead
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. (G. K. Chesterton)
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. View quote
Mae West
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. View quote
William Cobbett
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. View quote
Colleen McCullough
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. View quote
Karen Armstrong
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
It is a very sad thing nowadays that there is so little useless information. (Oscar Wilde)
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Youth is the only thing worth having. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. View quote
Oscar Wilde