Thing Quotes

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Die, Said

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
Ernest Hemingway

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn Rand

Law, Matter, Rights

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
Diego Boneta

Yourself, True, Important

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
Charlie Chaplin

Life, Moment, Wrong

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams

Cannot, Impossible, Wrong

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Chanakya

Done, Him, Learned

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

Him, Enough, Playing

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
Billy Graham

Lost, Once, Realize

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer

Happy, Destiny, Found

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller

Home, Children, Parents

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
Gilda Radner

Life, Live, Important

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor

Christmas, Together, Through

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
George C. Marshall

Forward, Done, Next

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Mistakes, Wish

The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden

Love, Family, Important

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
John Wooden

Love, Hate, Important

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
Voltaire

Time, Good, Country

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Margaret Thatcher

Women, Men, Society

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Johnny Depp

Life, Problem, Off

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot

Human, Two, Silent

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eyes, Front, Hardest

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
Marilyn Manson

God, Art, Spiritual

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
Yogi Berra

Almost, Monday, Charity

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller

Moment, Awesome, Attention

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Walt Disney

Thinking, Wrong, Whenever

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
Joel Osteen

Best, Death, Father

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success, Happy, Someone

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
Johnny Depp

Time, Money, Freedom

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
Mike Tyson

Time, End, Book

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