Thing Quotes - page 99

See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion; See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious. (William Dean Howells)
Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you. View quote
Andy Partridge
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world. View quote
Ralph Cudworth
Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down. View quote
Bill Gates
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing. View quote
Bill Gates
Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time. View quote
Bill Gates
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that. View quote
Bill Gates
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic. View quote
Studs Terkel
[I think] the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump. View quote
Sarah Dessen
I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous... (Sarah Dessen)
Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done. View quote
Sarah Dessen
It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. View quote
John Perry Barlow
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!' View quote
Edwin Markham
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life. View quote
Edwin Markham
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty! View quote
Victor Hugo
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. View quote
Victor Hugo
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. View quote
Victor Hugo
The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out. View quote
Barney Frank
I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. View quote
David Bowie
The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show. (Flora Thompson)
[J]amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do. View quote
Kalle Lasn
Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing. View quote
Ray Charles
Try a thing you haven't tried before three times once to get over the fear, once to find out how to do it, and a third time to find out whether you like it or not. View quote
Virgil Thomson
Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all 'meaning' of the thing seen. Then only, could the real meaning of it be understood and felt. View quote
Ellsworth Kelly