#thing

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#nature #thing #variable

I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#boring #established #i #know #lot

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#common #die #going #matter #things

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#expecting #form #most #nothing #popular

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#brilliant #completely #even #everybody #i

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#father #go #how #i #me

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#capability #figure #fully #good #interests

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#besides #key #knows #mind #things

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #black #black history #complex #could

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ↗

— Alan Alda

#clear #freshness #hang #ideas #life