Quotes with thing

Quotes 881 till 900 of 1861.

  • Marcus Aurelius Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Adam McKay Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
    Adam McKay
    American filmmaker (1968 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Joan Didion Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Blanche Lincoln Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Walter Savage Landor O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Carol Leifer Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • George Orwell Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Eddington Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jane Harrison Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • Billy Graham Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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