The Thing Quotes

I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

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

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

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.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.

"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

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

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

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

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

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

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

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.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

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

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

Time really has gone by fast. I don’t know if your path is pre-written or what, but it’s crazy how one thing just leads to another.

If there was one thing I’d like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

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.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

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

When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.

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.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

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

One thing is for sure, a World Cup without me is nothing to watch so it is not worthwhile to wait for the World Cup.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

Death is a fearful thing.

You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.