The Thing Quotes

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.

Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme, Yes, absorb me.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

Honestly, if you don’t fit in, then you’re probably doing the right thing.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that's inside of you.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

I'll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.