The Thing Quotes

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen. I have such an overwhelming sense that if you're in the right state of heart, the next right thing appears to you.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

The one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15, 20 pounds. It would be good.

The one thing I've learned to do that I never thought I had the ability to do is I don't watch CNN anymore.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.

There's one thing that's really great about waking up early, and it's not jogging or greeting the day - it's just that that's when they make doughnuts.

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

One thing about the past. It's likely to last.

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.

If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

I am a thing of beauty.

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.