The Thing Quotes

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

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.

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.

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

Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.

From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

It’s one thing to see yourself going across the ticker…But to take someone else down, that’s another. I really can’t even explain that pain.

Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

Tears may come and go, But there's one thing I know. All my life you're a friend of mine. You can depend on me. I'll be fine... 'Cause you're a friend of mine.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.