It's always the same thing, one war after another.
Karel Čapek
Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
Orson Scott Card
Poison cures in certain contingencies, and in those cases poison is not an evil thing.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
Lois McMaster Bujold
It's not a comfortable thing, to be chosen so. I tried to avoid it for a long time, but God finds ways of dealing with draft dodgers.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The only thing as bad as bad comedy is bad action. Bad Boys II has plenty of both. In fact, those two things are all it has, unless you count the small helping of bad drama. When it comes to this movie, the word "bad" initially seems highly appropriate. But Bad Boys II isn't just bad it's a catastrophic violation of every aspect of cinema that I as a film critic hold dear. It seems to have been constructed with terms like "unwatchable" and "godawful" as its slogans. There are motion picture failures every year the resumes of Hollywood players are littered with them. But, when something this big a would-be blockbuster with recognizable names in the cast and crew collapses in such a spectacular fashion, it's worth taking note. Think of how many starving children could have been fed with the money that was poured into [director] Michael Bay's latest sinkhole.
James Berardinelli
We are in a great night of the world. The thing is to know if we shall wake up to-morrow. We have only one succor we know of what the night is made. But shall we be able to impart our lucid faith, seeing that the heralds of warning are everywhere few, and that the greatest victims hate the only ideal which is not one, and call it utopian?
Henri Barbusse
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 or repair.
Douglas Adams
Solitude is certainly a fine thing; but there is pleasure in having someone who can answer, from time to time, that it is a fine thing.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Journalists say a thing that they know is not true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
Enoch Arnold Bennett
When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.
Jacques Barzun
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
Paolo Bacigalupi
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf