Quotes with thing

Quotes 121 till 140 of 1861.

  • Thomas Paine A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Robert Henri A thing that has not been begun cannot be finished.
    The art spirit
    Robert Henri
    American painter (born Robert Henri Cozad) (1865 - 1929)
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  • Annie Leibovitz A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Abraham Isaac Kook A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
    Orot Orot Hatchiah 14
    Abraham Isaac Kook
    Israeli Orthodox Rabbi (1865 - 1935)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Lord Acton A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barry Hannah A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Gloria Pitzer About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
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  • Bahman Ghobadi Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Joe E. Lewis Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • V.S. Naipaul Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Butch Trucks After 'Win, Lose or Draw' we were workin' on another album that nobody's ever heard, and it's a good thing nobody heard it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bill Nye After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Agatha Christie Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
    Death in the Clouds (1935)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Edwin Markham Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
    Papa Hemingway (1966) Pt. 2, Ch. 7
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Eugene Field All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
    Eugene Field
    American writer (1850 - 1895)
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  • Bart Stupak All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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