The Thing Quotes

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

We do the right thing not to please people but because it's the only logically reasonable thing to do, as long as we are being honest with ourselves - even if we are the only ones.

I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.

Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask, "Is this the right thing for me to do now? If it isn't, guide me to what I need."

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.

Saying is one thing and doing is another

That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player.

When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.

One thing I love about Josh Turner is his faith; that's why I looked up to him so much.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

There’s only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.

After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.