Quotes with thing”

Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 1861.

  • Alexander Smith We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Oscar Wilde We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles Swindoll We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Joseph Fort Newton We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • Giordano Bruno We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Calvin Coolidge We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
    Source: Calvin Coolidge says (1972)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Antoinette Brown Blackwell We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
    Antoinette Brown Blackwell
    American Protestant minister (1825 - 1921)
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  • Ann Veneman We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • A. W. Tozer We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • J. William Fulbright We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
    J. William Fulbright
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1905 - 1995)
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  • Norman Cousins We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Bobby Sheehan We kinda like to pick you up and throw you on the ground. That's our thing.
    Bobby Sheehan
     
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  • Carl Honore We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ben Carson We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Okri We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Seneca We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Chimamanda Adichie We raise girls to see each other as competitors—not for jobs or accomplishments, which in my opinion can be a good thing—but for the attention of men.
    Source: We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • Aldo Leopold We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Alice Walker We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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