The Thing Quotes
Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.
But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.
I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975.
If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.
A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.
Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.
Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.
There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them
A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.
The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.
Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.
I feel like I'm at a level in my business where I've established myself as a professional. And the one thing I haven't managed to do is find a way to achieve a better balance.
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.
Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.
We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.
I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.
I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.
Pretty much I don't regret anything that has happened in my life. One thing is I wish I could have spent more time with my mama and my pa.
Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)
I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.
The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.
My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.
Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear
Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.