José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Interview. Torreblanca, M. E. Entrevista al escritor José Baroja. Fondo de Cultura Económica. https://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/Noticia/706
A collection of quotes on the topic of thing, doing, people, likeness.
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Interview. Torreblanca, M. E. Entrevista al escritor José Baroja. Fondo de Cultura Económica. https://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/Noticia/706
“For me, the important thing is still the people.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Fuente: https://portal.ucm.cl/noticias/academico-la-ucm-presento-segunda-antologia-hijo-perra-otros-cuentos
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/
Chester Bennington (1976–2017) American singer-songwriter
Also attributed to Johnny Depp.
“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”
Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
Alan Turing (1912–1954) British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
Variant: Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
“There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.”
Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
Adolf Hitler book Mein Kampf
Variant: And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Source: Mein Kampf
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
“Whatever you do, make sure that you have those things that money can't buy”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
“Always pray for wisdom above all other things, it's like magnate”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
Source: https://www.scribd.com/document/531451370/Quotes-of-Famous-People Scribd document, famous people quotes, Cornelius Keagon
Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor
Interview with Polish website Plejada (25 November 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNqJC-ZSseU&t=552
“Overcome the devils with a thing called love.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)
Louis Zamperini (1917–2014) Italian-American middle distance runner
Variant: I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's healing, actually, it's real healing...
Forgiveness.
“What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.”
Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer
“It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”
Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress
“You can close your eyes if you want. Some things are less scary.”
Tyler Joseph (1988) American singer-songwriter and record producer
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.”
Reinhold Messner (1944) Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer
“Don't worry about a thing,
'Cos every little thing is gonna be alright.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Three Little Birds, from the album Exodus (1977)
Song lyrics
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.”
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Letter (September 1940)
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
Ernest Hemingway book Men Without Women
Disputed <br class="br">Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.
“There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1983) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105454 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that ‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.
“Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided.”
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member
As quoted in Seeking Peace : Notes and Conversations Along the Way (1998) by Johann Christoph Arnold, p. 155
Context: Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided. Yet time and time again one hears it said that since we have been put into a conflicting world, we have to adapt to it. Oddly, this completely unchristian idea is most often espoused by so-called Christians, of all people. How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?
Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor
In conversation with Timothée Chalamet for i-D Magazine (2 November 2018) https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/evwwma/harry-styles-interviews-timothee-chalamet-photos
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Variant: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Context: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
Source: Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
As quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_XX-XX-1985_-_Unknown.
“The damned thing works! (telegram, on the first successful television broadcast)”
Philo Farnsworth (1906–1971) American inventor
George Everson <br class="br"> Official Website of Philo Farnsworth https://www.cmgww.com/historic/farnsworth/
“With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.”
William of Ockham (1285–1349) medieval philosopher and theologian
Variant: The simplest explanation is usually the right one
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
“Scientist believe in things, not in person”
Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist
“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”
John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate
“If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Fast Company, article "Hondas in Space" https://www.fastcompany.com/52065/hondas-space (1 February 2005)
“Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.”
Ali (601–661) cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol. 72, p. 39
“School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.”
Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) American actor and film producer
http://www.flixster.com/actor/leonardo-di-caprio/leonardo-dicaprio-quotes
Scott Cawthon (1971) American independent video game designer
Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism
[Chekki, Danesh A., Religion and Social System of the Vīraśaiva Community, http://books.google.com/books?id=x7JZMy1qntgC&pg=PA48, 1 January 1997, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-30251-0, 48–]
“If you want to make history, you have to do historic things.”
Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Os sentimentos que mais doem, as emoções que mais pungem, são os que são absurdos – a ânsia de coisas impossíveis, precisamente porque são impossíveis, a saudade do que nunca houve, o desejo do que poderia ter sido, a mágoa de não ser outro, a insatisfação da existência do mundo. Todos estes meios tons da consciencia da alma criam em nós uma paisagem dolorida, um eterno sol-pôr do que somos.
The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 196
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist
'La vie n’est facile pour aucun de nous. Mais quoi, il faut avoir de la persévérance, et surtout de la confiance en soi. Il faut croire que l’on est doué pour quelque chose, et que, cette chose, il faut l'atteindre coûte que coûte.'
As quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, Part 2, p. 116
“Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
1990s, Vibe magazine interview (February 1996)
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Variant: I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
Source: Rising Strong
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
"The Man Who Would Be Queen" in Melody Maker (2 May 1981) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_05-02-1981_-_Melody_Maker.
Meryl Streep (1949) American actress
Misattributed to Meryl Streep (and widely disseminated on the Internet as of August/September 2014), this quote is allegedly a translation of a text by the author José Micard Teixeira, the original of which begins (in Portuguese): "Já não tenho paciência para algumas coisas, não porque me tenha tornado arrogante..."
Misattributed
Raphael (1483–1520) Italian painter and architect
Quote from a letter of Raphael Sanzio to pope Leo X (c. 1519); Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, cod. it. 37b; translated as 'The Letter to Leo X by Raphael and Baldassare Castiglione, c.1519', by Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks, Palladio's Rome: A Translation of Andrea Palladio's Two Guidebooks to Rome; Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006, pp. 179-92
Zayn Malik (1993) British singer
Let Me for his partner on young people not knowing what to come in the future if it is too faraway into the future
Song lyrics
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
On the lightening of his skin.
Televised Interview with Oprah Winfrey (1993)
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer
As quoted in The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman (2009) by Karen Karbo
Vangelis (1943) Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music
1984
Context: On albums and commercialism: "For every album I’ve ever made, I’ve written many times more music than has actually been released, and the way I choose which music appears is almost totally random, but one thing I have never done is to make music for the sake of commercialism... I don’t think it’s possible to guarantee commercial success for an album anyway, because nobody really knows what is commercial and what isn’t. Even if I went out of my way to make an album that was more accessible to the public, that would not guarantee its commercial success".