The Thing Quotes

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

You should just do the right thing.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

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?

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.

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

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

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.

Fast movement during exercise does not produce fast muscles, or strong muscles, or large muscles, it produces only one thing, a thing to be avoided, it produces injuries.

I know I did the right thing, but no one would ever understand.

One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

The autistic brain tends to be a specialist brain, good at one thing, bad at something else.

We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.

My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.