Quotes with thing

Quotes 101 till 120 of 1861.

  • Bob Edwards A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • George Bernard Shaw A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Herbert Spencer A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • John Cheever A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Cate Blanchett A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Garrison Keillor A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Thomas Hobbes A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Byron Howard A nice thing about being at Disney is that these movies can develop into a presence in theme parks and become something real, or maybe get a sequel or tell other stories.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Bill Hader A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Ian McEwan A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
    Atonement (2001)
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Charles Lamb A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Robert Graves A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Mark Twain A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aldo Leopold A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • John Ruskin A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Tim O'Brien A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 80
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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