Quotes about thing page 6
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Source: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657 note: 1940s, Male and Female (1949)
Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Conan O'Brien (1963) American television show host and comedian
Final words, January 22, 2010 TV Guide news http://www.tvguide.com/News/Conans-Words-Tonight-1014105.aspx <br class="br">The Tonight Show <br class="br">Context: Before we end this rodeo, a few things need to be said. There has been a lot of speculation in the press about what I legally can and can't say about NBC. To set the record straight, tonight I am allowed to say anything I want. And what I want to say is this: between my time at Saturday Night Live, the Late Night show, and my brief run here on The Tonight Show, I have worked with NBC for over twenty years. Yes, we have our differences right now and yes, we're going to go our separate ways. But this company has been my home for most of my adult life. I am enormously proud of the work we have done together, and I want to thank NBC for making it all possible. Walking away from The Tonight Show is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Making this choice has been enormously difficult. This is the best job in the world, I absolutely love doing it, and I have the best staff and crew in the history of the medium. But despite this sense of loss, I really feel this should be a happy moment. Every comedian dreams of hosting The Tonight Show and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second. I've had more good fortune than anyone I know and if our next gig is doing a show in a 7-Eleven parking lot, we'll find a way to make it fun. And finally, I have to say something to our fans. The massive outpouring of support and passion from so many people has been overwhelming. The rallies, the signs, all the goofy, outrageous creativity on the Internet, and the fact that people have traveled long distances and camped out all night in the pouring rain to be in our audience, made a sad situation joyous and inspirational. To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me and I'll think about it for the rest of my life. All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. As proof, let’s make an amazing thing happen right now. Here to close out our show, are a few good friends, led by Mr. Will Ferrell…
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”
Jim Stovall (1958) American writer
“The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.”
Sebastian Fitzek (1971) German writer
Source: Splitter
“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
Stephen King book The Stand
Source: The Stand
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
"The Art of Living", interview with journalist Gordon Young first published in 1960
Variant: [T]here are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Variant translation: The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.
28 September 1942
Variant: I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Sadhguru book Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
Variant: The only thing that stands between you and your well-being is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside. On
Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
Source: Marjorie's Three Gifts
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
Context: We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) American photographer and author
“It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
“If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.”
Vandana Shiva (1952) Indian philosopher
“Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?”
Tamora Pierce The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Source: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
“It's much easier not to know things sometimes.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Variant: It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“Presume not that I am the thing I was.”
William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2
Source: Henry IV, Part 2
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Self-Pity (1929)
Source: The Complete Poems
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Two Precepts of Charity (1273)
Sermons on the Ten Commandments (Collationes in decem praeceptes, c. 1273), Prologue (opening sentence)
Variant translation: Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Original: (la) Tria sunt homini necessaria ad salutem: scilicit scientia credendorum, scientia desiderandorum, et scientia operandorum.
“The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.”
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer
Source: Final message to the church (n. d.)
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Variant: When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises
Source: The Alchemist
“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Collected Poems
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Picasso quoted in 'TIME'; quoted in: The Atlantic, Vol. 214 (1964), p. 97.
Picasso commented on his ambiguous style, or use of multiple styles.
1960s
“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Oscar Wilde book The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Lord Goring, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your perfection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you. And try also to get rid of personal property. It involves sordid preoccupation, endless industry, continual wrong. Personal property hinders Individualism at every step.
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"In Front of Your Nose" http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/nose/english/e_nose, Tribune (22 March 1946) <br class="br">Context: The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Ziglar has often used this saying, but it originates with Phillips Brooks, as quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody.
Misattributed
“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”
Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 14
Context: One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
"Why I Write," Gangrel (Summer 1946)
“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Dick the Butcher, Act IV, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
Source: King Henry VI, Part 2
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Charles Eames (1907–1978) American designer, half of duo the Eames
“We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible… So we will do them anyway.”
William Wilberforce (1759–1833) English politician
“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”
Bob Pierce (1914–1978) American evangelical charity founder
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
As quoted by John M. Kost http://www.mackinac.org/bio.aspx?ID=104 (25 July 1995) in S. 946, the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (1996). <br class="br">This appears to derive from a 1910 advertisement by writer Alfred Henry Lewis for a forthcoming series of biographical articles about Roosevelt: "All activity, Mr. Roosevelt has often shown that it is better to do the wrong thing than do nothing at all. In politics this last is peculiarly true. The best thing is to do the right thing; the next best is to do the wrong thing; the worst thing of all things is to stand perfectly still". (e.g. in La Follette's Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=RV4CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA183&dq=%22best+thing%22+%22right+thing%22+%22worst+thing%22+nothing&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNksu-nZrMAhVDy2MKHSl1Df8Q6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%22the%20best%20thing%20is%20to%20do%20the%20right%20thing%22&f=false (28 May 1910) <br class="br">Disputed
