The Thing Quotes

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

You know, so often we think we have each step figured out. And then when one thing doesn't go our way, we begin to question, we being to fear what our next step will be.

Ultimately, our relationship with Christ is the one thing we cannot do without.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in this world, and that is love.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

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.

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.

Don't let the romance die, remember one thing that's going right in the sea of things that aren't.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.

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.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.

One thing, change, is what everyone says. The question is, what type of change? What's the right change to produce a different outcome for the people left behind by globalization?

It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.

I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle.

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.