Thing Quotes - page 8

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. (Thomas Hardy)
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. View quote
Sylvia Plath
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. View quote
Tennessee Williams
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. (Robert N. Bellah)
I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more. View quote
Nat King Cole
Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else. View quote
Angelina Jolie
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
Love is a peculiar thing. View quote
Georg Büchner
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. View quote
George F. Kennan
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. View quote
Simone Weil
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. View quote
Montesquieu
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. View quote
Ezra Pound
If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. (Bruce Lee)
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again. View quote
Alexander Pope
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. View quote
Robert E. Lee
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. View quote
Wallace Stevens