Quotes with thing

Quotes 761 till 780 of 1861.

  • Kelly Fordyce Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
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  • Karl Barth Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
    Karl Barth
    Swiss theologian (1886 - 1968)
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  • Max Eastman Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • John Ruskin Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Robert Frost Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • William Allen White Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Henry Miller Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Antony Sher Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
    Antony Sher
    British actor (1949 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Life is just one damned thing after another.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
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    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Oscar Wilde Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Philip Roth Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
    The Human Stain (2000)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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