The Thing Quotes

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

I think is about confidence. Is about doing the right things. Is about being healthy. Is not about if I want to work or if I don't want to work. Is about if I can work or if I can't work.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.

One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.

We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one thing we have more of than other apes... and let's secure their future.

The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

Some people have subject matter expertise in one thing. Some people tend to be creative but not reliable, and others are reliable but not creative. Everybody has different dimensions.

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.

I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing.

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

The only thing that matters is when the team wins.

Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.