[ thing- Quotes ]
Showing search results for Thing+ Quotes - 2466 quotes about thing+ - Dictionary Quotes
2466 quotesEverything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Adversity
Earl Warren
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 583 votes
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Excellence
Booker T. Washington
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 650 votes
I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.
Perfection
Friedrich Wasiman
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 659 votes
It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant.
Greatness
James Watson
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 602 votes
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Manners
Evelyn Waugh
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 692 votes
I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
Originality
Daniel Webster
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 571 votes
Mind is the great lever of all things.
Mind
Daniel Webster
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 465 votes
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
Anger
John Webster
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 710 votes
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Beauty
Simone Weil
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 707 votes
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Charity
Simone Weil
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 658 votes
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
Machinery
Simone Weil
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 682 votes
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Genius
Simone Weil
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 581 votes
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Impossibility
Weiler
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 584 votes
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Acting and Actors
Orson Welles
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 676 votes
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Colleges and Universities
Orson Welles
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 553 votes
When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Difficulties
Orson Welles
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 669 votes
The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
Churches
John Wesley
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 601 votes
Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
Arrogance
Baron Wessenberg
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 656 votes
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
Grief
Rebecca West
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 764 votes
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Mothers
Rebecca West
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 667 votes
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Age and Aging
Edith Wharton
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 450 votes
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
Farming and Farmers
Elwyn Brooks White
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 592 votes
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
Automobiles
Elwyn Brooks White
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 658 votes
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Agreement
Elwyn Brooks White
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 722 votes
Oh, the blues ain't nothing but a good woman feeling bad.
Illness
Georgia White
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 667 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun