Quotes with thing

Quotes 241 till 260 of 1861.

  • Arne Jacobsen Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bootsy Collins Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Robert Doisneau Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
    Robert Doisneau
    French photographer (1912 - 1994)
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  • Greg Anderson Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, ''Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!''
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Adam Sandler Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Graham Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Ann Coulter Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Bhagat Singh Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Joe Montana Confidence is a very fragile thing.
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  • Bobby Jindal Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Henry Fielding Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • George Santayana Consciousness is a very superficial thing.
    Letters of G. Santayana
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the ''breadwinner ethic.''
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Barbara Boxer Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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