| "It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing." »Marquis de Sade |
| "Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught." »J. C. Watts |
| "The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. 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 |
| "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. . .and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things." »Ecclesiates 1922 Bible |
| "No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think." »Penelope Fitzgerald |
| "Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away." »George Lorimer |
| "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things." »Vincent Van Gogh |
| "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre." »Frank H. Crane |
| "I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more." »Dorothy Parker |
| "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." »Dorothy Nevill |
| "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment." »Theodore Harold White |
| "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." »Roosevelt, Eleanor |
| "I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak." »Eric Ambler |
| "What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love" »Victor Hugo |
| "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." »Will Durant |
| "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 |
| "The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way." »Richard Harding Davis |
| "The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "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 |
| "Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted." »Rena Harmon |
| "Richard Okay... seatbelts. Just put the little thing into the big thing and... I tell ya what. If you don't know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I'll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer because you're a RETARD" »Tommy Boy |
| "Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin." »Kathleen Norris |
| "It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." »D. H. Lawrence |
| "When you know a thing, to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge." »Confucius |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
