Quotes with thing-they

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  • W. H. Auden Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bill Bailey Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Bruce Barton Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Thomas Wolfe Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Pindar Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Seneca Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Not necessity, not desire -no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Beth Brooke Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned through sports are critical to motivating teams and improving performance in a corporate environment.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bob Schwartz Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.
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  • Ang Lee Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Cayley Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Alexander Pope Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Aravind Adiga Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free.
    Last Man in Tower (2011) 419
    Aravind Adiga
    Indo-Australian writer and journalist (1974 - )
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