Thing Quotes

The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Ella Fitzgerald

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford

Great, America, Problems

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
Plato

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill

Job, Stamp, Sticks

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama

Simple, Proud, Hear

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Voltaire

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci

Dreams, Why, Eye

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
Mae West

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Bob Dylan

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
Charlie Chaplin

Words, Biggest, Cheap

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun Tzu

Good, Best, War

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
Will Rogers

Try, Else, Nation

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Robert A. Heinlein

Time, Best, Travel

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama

Success, Politics, Remember

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Plato

Good, Harm, Repeating

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
Richard Pryor

Life, Peace, Time

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin

Far, Clown, Places

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

War, Week, Fall

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers

Hero, Die, Main

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther

End, Justice, Die

The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest Hemingway

Answer, Shortest

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Best, Moment, Sure

I am a thing of beauty.
Frank Sinatra

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway

War, Happen, Once

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron

Feeling, Motto, Keep

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Children, Done, Revolution

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.
Erma Bombeck

Body, Wants, Eat

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne

Forget, Nothing, Wish

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
T. S. Eliot

Love, Faith, Hope

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey

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