The Thing Quotes

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

It's one thing when you are photographing others, but when you are exposing yourself and your insecurities, that's the biggest risk. That's always scary.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

It's one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say. It's another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.

If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

People have one thing in common; they are all different.

Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

After the years of me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself, I knew I had to go back and fix some things. I can't just be super-rich or whatever and not do the right thing.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing.

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting - because I don't act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have, what you don't have. The only thing that matters is that you set a goal and you just dream, live, and fly.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.

Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?

One thing a person won't do when he's laughing is try to beat you up.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again.