The Thing Quotes

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.

Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

One thing is certain in business: you will make mistakes. When you are pushing the boundaries, mistakes are inevitable-how you react is important.

There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

I know it is unpopular. I know the timing is unpopular. I know the whole thing is unpopular. But I believe it is the right thing.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

Taking one step, doing one thing every day that will get you closer to your own financial dream.

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

The one thing about God that's so beautiful is He is omnipotent, and He is the Almighty. But He's not a dictator.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.