The Thing Quotes

There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

If there is one thing of which I am most proud, it's that I made being ginger cool!

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.

One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue.

The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

Women are good for only one thing - lying on their backs.

Friendship means only one thing: you don't create fences around you, but try to remove fences from the life of another person.

I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am?

Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

There's only one thing wrong with my wife's face - it shows.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.

Personal branding is one thing that you just can't do well on your own. You are too close to it.