Quotes containing word "things"

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Definitions and meanings of word "things"

• Noun: any movable possession (especially articles of clothing); example: "she packed her things and left"

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
13 quotes about things
Roman Statesman, Philosopher, Dramatist
4 B.C. - 65 A.D.
Steve Jobs
13 quotes about things
American Businessman, Inventor
Thursday 24 February 1955 - Wednesday 5 October 2011
Sophocles
12 quotes about things
Greek Poet
496 B.C. - 406 B.C.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
11 quotes about things
English Writer
Friday 29 May 1874 - Sunday 14 June 1936
Jack White
11 quotes about things
American Musician, Composer
Born Wednesday 9 July 1975
George Bernard Shaw
9 quotes about things
Irish Dramatist
Saturday 26 July 1856 - Thursday 2 November 1950
P. J. O'Rourke
9 quotes about things
American Writer, Author, Journalist, Comedian
Born Friday 14 November 1947
Maria Sharapova
11 quotes about things
Russian Athlete
Born Sunday 19 April 1987
Doug Coupland
8 quotes about things
Canadian Author
Born Saturday 30 December 1961
Lao Tzu
8 quotes about things
Chinese Philosopher
Mark Twain
8 quotes about things
American Author
Monday 30 November 1835 - Thursday 21 April 1910
Epictetus
10 quotes about things
Greek Philosopher
55 A.D. - 135 A.D.

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

Robert Adamson

Words: just, disruptive, seems, repeated, endlessly, good, things, bland, ordinary, weaker, get, stronger, suppressed, held, down, hidden
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Agnes Martin

Words: progress, life, must, give, things, doing, find, acceptable, mind
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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

Doug Coupland

Words: three, things, cry, about, life, lost, found, magnificent
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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Stephen King

Words: important, things, hardest, say, get, ashamed, words, diminish, feelings, shrink, seem, timeless, head, more, living, size, brought
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Booker T. Washington

Words: success, life, founded, attention, small, things, rather, large, every, day, nearest, remote, uncommon
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I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

Bode Miller

Words: really, thinker, things, rash, know, some, said, way, act, seem, take, ownership, say, mean
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My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

Stephan Jenkins

Words: music, often, lullaby, write, make, sense, things, tie, together, lost, ill, never
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They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

Eric Carle

Words: deceptively, simple, admit, all, life, try, simplify, things, child, school, very, hard, understand, often, developed, knack, think, process
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Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently.

Jeffrey Skilling

Words: things, now, retrospect, seen, happen, company, done, some, differently, think, all, number
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I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.

Steven Tyler

Words: sure, about, selling, part, found, things, worn, tour, moved, over, people, wear, every, day, sometimes, wore, beginning, before, money, put, together
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Tony Campolo

Words: leading, say, terrible, things, about, Islam, evil, Muhammad, ashamed
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There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

Michael Dell

Words: lot, things, creating, success, just, cause, company, succeed, spend, time, doing, favorite, activities
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Alice Munro

Words: complexity, things, within, just, seems, endless, mean, nothing, easy, simple
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I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

Mary MacLane

Words: want, write, things, compel, admiring, acclamation, world, large, written, once, years, subtle, distinctly, different, books, every, day
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In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.

Ina Garten

Words: summer, want, fresh, light, sort, quick, things, winter, comforting, body, really, tells, potatoes, apples, fennel, warm, loin, pork
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All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

Alfred Marshall

Words: all, wealth, consists, desirable, things, satisfy, human, wants, directly, indirectly, reckoned
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I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.

Mike Gordon

Words: really, allowed, talk, about, dead, though, think, best, definitely, things, other, band, explore, take, extreme
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

P. J. Harvey

Words: want, keep, experimenting, all, time, just, inherent, therefore, reaching, instruments, particularly, know, play, become, excited, gives, energy, make, new, things, forces, hear, ways, help, say, way
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There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

James A. Lovell

Words: people, make, things, happen, watch, wonder, happened, successful, need, person, makes
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

Camryn Manheim

Words: character, play, wonderful, compilation, things, hate, about, love, invented, make, more, interesting
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