Thing Quotes - page 93

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant King, Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu wee, to witta woo! (Thomas Nashe)
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. View quote
Salman Rushdie
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting one is wearing a mask. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on. View quote
Charles Fort
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science, or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while. View quote
Charles Fort
The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. "Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival." View quote
Charles Fort
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. View quote
Heinrich Heine
The Sun -- just touched the Morning -- The Morning -- Happy thing -- Supposed that He had come to dwell -- And Life would all be Spring! View quote
Emily Dickinson
What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing – that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?”. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. View quote
John Henry Newman
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. (Sarah Orne Jewett)
There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it. View quote
Anne Brontë
Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honour with hers? Think! it is a serious thing. View quote
Anne Brontë
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. View quote
James Fenton
We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say. View quote
Mitt Romney
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu. View quote
James Russell Lowell
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. View quote
James Russell Lowell
This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good. View quote
Pope Francis
There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others. View quote
Tom Robbins
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else. (Dwight L. Moody)
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low. View quote
Christopher Alexander
A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears; She seemed a thing that could not feel; The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course. . . View quote
William Wordsworth
The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. View quote
William Wordsworth
There is a comfort in the strength of love Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart. View quote
William Wordsworth