Quotes with thing

Quotes 641 till 660 of 1861.

  • Alfred N. Whitehead Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Carmen Busquets Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Arna Bontemps Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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  • Barack Obama Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Mary Caroline Richards It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Anthony Trollope It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Evelyn Waugh It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Henry Manning It is a dangerous thing to accept gifts: for two days after come request.
    Pastime papers
    Henry Manning
    British cleric and cardinal (1808 - 1892)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Winston Churchill It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Robert Lynd It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
    My early life (1930)
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Don Herold It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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