Quotes with thing”

Quotes 801 till 820 of 1861.

  • Benjamin Tucker Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bjork Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Philip Roth Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
    Source: American Pastoral (1997)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Don DeLillo Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
    Source: White Noise (2015) 126
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Marley Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
    Source: As quoted in "Bob Marley: Musician" (Infobase Publishing, 2009) by Sherry Paprocki and Sean Dolan, p. 75
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
    Source: Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Paul Auster Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Alexander Chase Memory is the thing you forget with.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
    Source: A Pale View of Hills (1982)
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Aesop Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Gabriel Heatter Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Bill Gates Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
    Source: Speech at the Computer History Museum, as quoted in InfoWorld magazine (October 2001)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The ''marketing'' immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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