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I know one thing we did right Was the day we started to fight, Keep your eye on the prize, Hold on, hold on!
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
For I am the L your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Behold,Iwilldoathing inIsrael, at whichboththeears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
A fond thing vainly invented.
She was maintaining the prime truth of woman, the universal motherthat if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
It isa far, far better thing that Ido, thanIhave everdone; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Bubber was the first man I heard use the expression,'it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.' Everything, and I repeat, everything had to swing.
People always ask me the most ridiculous questions. They want to know,'Howdo you approach a role?' Well, Idon't know.Iapproach it by first saying yes, thengetting on with the bloody thing.
The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.
What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall? If design govern in a thing so small.
A local thing called Christianity.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing.
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in naturebut the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
The thing depicted is less stationary, even the object in itself is less discernible than it used to be. A landscape broken into and traversed in a car or an express train losesindescriptivevaluebut gainsinsynthetic value; the window of the railroad carriage or the windshield of the car, combined withthespeed at whichyou aretraveling, have changed the familiar look of things. Modern man registers one hundred times more impressions than did an eighteenth century artist.
Although we sought to do the right thingand believed we were doing the right thingin my judgement, hindsight proves us wrong.
La moindre chose contient un peu d'inconnu. Trouvons-le. The least thing contains something mysterious. Find it.
Let the thing fall down in peace.
It don't mean a thing If it ain't got that swing.
'Good', then, if we mean by it that quality which we assert to belong to a thing, when we say that the thing is good, is incapable of any definition, in the most important sense of the word.
La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.
What thing is love for (well I wot) love is a thing. It is a prick, it is a sting, It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal Whose flame creeps in at every hole.
That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where you are.
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world: and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Technologyis a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
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