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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney

Days, Sign, Pen

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

Men, May, Often

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo

God, Philosophy, Necessary

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
John Wooden

Old, Keep, Reading

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, Hopefully, Arrive

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne

Love, Friendship, Marriage

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
Joan Crawford

Important, Woman, Her

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.
Johnny Depp

Dentist, Trips, Postpone

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Henry Ward Beecher

Government, Next, Worst

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Young, Ten, Pleasant

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
William J. Clinton

Live, Mistakes, Long

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
H. L. Mencken

Enough, Liberty, Anyone

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor Hugo

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes, Devil

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
Eric Schmidt

Humanity, Understand, Internet

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.
Johnny Depp

Idea, Dancing, Scares

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Live, Another, Series

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Another, Conquer, Curiosity

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Paul Scott

Truth, Gossip, Lie

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Marcus Aurelius

Again, Round, Cycle

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.
Johnny Depp

Daughter, Fan, Odd

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hate, Same, Else

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol

Long, Enough, Afraid

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken

Time, Women, Men

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Martin Lawrence

Life, God, Mistakes

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Life, Single, Moment

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike Tyson

Time, Book, Revolution

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
Clint Eastwood

Hollywood, Biggest, Plagiarism

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.
Mitt Romney

Future, Strong, Past

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard

Truth, May, Easy

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