Quotes with thing

Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 1861.

  • Bernhard Langer You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Mary Pickford You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ''Failure'' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
    Mary Pickford
    Canadian film and theater actress and film producer (1892 - 1979)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bede Griffiths You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Anthony Hope You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Oscar Wilde You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch You talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in the form of government.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Brian P. Cleary You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Billy Corgan You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bill Bailey You're absolutely right, Hitler was a vegetarian. It's very unseemly to think so, but there he was. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Betty Cuthbert You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.
    Betty Cuthbert
    Australian athlete (1938 - 2017)
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  • B. Jowett Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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