The Thing Quotes

But you're the hardest thing I've ever done, and you're also the best. So... I think that's the moral of the story here. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen.

One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

The one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

One thing I always remember: Frustration is built by unmet expectations.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

The one thing about me is, I don't care what people think. It all starts with yourself. I believe in myself. I love myself. So it's kind of like, they can shove it up their you - know - whats.

As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

Because there's one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.

If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path.

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

There's only one thing that separates us from animals: We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.

The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

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

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

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.

And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.

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

Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.