Quotes with thing-they

Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 7322.

  • T. S. Eliot Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Yogi Berra Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Joseph Conrad Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Mark Twain Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • William Butler Yeats Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Ovid Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Gloria Steinem Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Claude Adrien Helvétius Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
    Claude Adrien Helvétius
    French philosopher (1715 - 1771)
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  • Paul E. Little Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Homer Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Kofi Annan Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • David Storey Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
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  • Walt Whitman Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • B. Wayne Hughes Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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  • Cass Sunstein Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Max Lerner Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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