The Thing Quotes

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.

I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.

The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.

I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation

There's nothing wrong with fighting for the right things.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.

A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.