A Quotes
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“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
“A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.”
Source: The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century
“A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.”
“A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.”
Source: Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)
“A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.”
“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.”
“a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth”
Source: The Girl Who Was on Fire
“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.”
“A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.”
Source: The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
“A thing named is a thing tamed.”
“A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.”
“A thing of beauty is a boy forever.”
Source: Interpreters
“A thing of beauty is a job forever.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
“A thing of beauty is said to last forever, unless it begins to speak. Mati thanked the Storm God that her Lamb had not proposed marriage. Nothing ruins an affair more than an effort to make it last.”
Source: Sons of Darkness
“A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.”
Source: In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961
“A thing or situation is often worsened by the attempt to improve it.”
“A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why... There must be more”
“A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.”
“A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.”
“A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.”
“A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder, an evil-smelling lip rouge, a peculiar-smelling hair ointment and a half-dozen varieties of body oils, and then have the effrontery to complain of the aroma of a fine dollar cigar.”
“A thing that has no value does not exist.”
Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist.”
Source: The Books of Jacob
“A thing that is really done from the heart will one day or another again touch the hearts of others.”
“A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.”
“A thing that most creatives don't do well is that you've gotta learn to listen.”
“A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.”
Source: Plays Unpleasant
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
“A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
“A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.”
“A thing well done is worth doing.”
“A thing well said will be wit in all languages.”
“A thing when I was writing the movie 'The hateful eight' was, I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. So I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.”
“A thing which fades
With no outward sign -
Is the flower
Of the heart of man
In this world!”
“A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?”
Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.”
Source: The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Kt ... The Second Edition Carefully Compared with the French ... With a Table to the Whole
“A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows”
“A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”
“A thing worth learning is worth learning well.”
“A thing's innate disposition does not lie.”
“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.”
“a think I would not be here today
without the strength given by certain friendships
meet to reassemble me
I look at the present
at this insant and very patient
of day clement
an exit and always in the part
and life reacts to your mind
positive and creative
stay magical,
stay true.”
“A thinker is a person.”
Source: Transcendentalism, with Preludes on Current Events
“A thinker is dangerous because they introduce friction, and force society to look in the mirror.”