Quotes with thing

Quotes 221 till 240 of 1861.

  • H. G. Bohn Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bootsy Collins But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Beth Henley But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Abel Ferrara But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • William Shakespeare But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alan Paton But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Ezra Pound 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.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bruce Springsteen But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • George Orwell But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barry McGuire But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Johnston But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Mark Twain By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again - and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • E. F. Schumacher Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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  • Bernie Sanders Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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