Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Thing

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
- Oscar Wilde
He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud crySuch as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"To "What-you-may-call-um!" or?"What-was-his-name!"But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"
- Lewis Carroll
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
- Victor Hugo
One should never think that man can reach perfection, he can only aim at completion — not to be perfect but to be complete. That would be the necessity and the indispensable condition if there were any question of perfection at all. For how can you perfect a thing if it is not complete?
- Carl Jung
There ain't no such thing as lumberjack, that must be a Back East expression. Up here we call 'em loggers.
- Jack Kerouac
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
- Victor Hugo
The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation - or whatever - that didn't really exist. So I didn't even know that that was a thing.
- Bo Burnham
It is the worst time in history to be a backslider. It is the worst time ever to be cold in heart and stupid and go and do your own thing.
- Bill Johnson
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
- Virginia Woolf
The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)
- Brennan Manning
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
- Mahatma Gandhi