Thing Quotes

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

Ive always wondered if people who block each other from expressing their opinions do so because they have so little confidence in their own. To me, encountering an opposing point of view is a chance to gain a deeper understanding of the issues at stake... and develop my own point of view. But the first thing youve got to do is youve got to let people speak and youve got to listen. And thats what the first amendment is all about. Thats what really distinguishes this country from others.

Michael Bloomberg

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

Thomas Jefferson

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair

The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.

Lewis Niles Black

The biggest thing is we are going to have to execute offensively. We've been doing a much better job of late of not going on very long starvation periods of not getting a basket.

Leonard Perry

She died with her telly on, 87 and confused With not enough hospital beds cos all the moneys been used On the end of the century party preparations And they reckon that the last thing she saw in her life was Sting, singing on the roof of the Barbican Sting, singing on the roof of the Barbican

Nigel Blackwell

I had a muscle cramp. Buffy was, uh, helping. A muscle cramp... in your pants? What? It's a thing.

Amber Nicole Benson

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Robert Neelly Bellah

One thing guys know is when to shut up.

Chetan Bhagat

This means that I can do whatever I really want. God is always with me. There is no thing as a loser after all.

Chetan Bhagat

The great thing about attackers is that there are so many to choose from!

Daniel J. Bernstein

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

Bruce Springsteen
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