The Thing Quotes

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Donald Trump is saying the right thing. We're bringing in so much labor, it's pulling down working people.

My career is one thing in my life that I don't plan.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump.

But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

The hardest thing about movies is doing take 12, 13, and 14, and finding new ways to do the same lines. So the early takes are actually easier and I think there's more surprises in them.

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.

If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave up, and the published writer didn't.

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.

My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

Donald Trump will do what he is told is the right thing to do in complying with the law.

All the study and effort toward higher consciousness can be eliminated if we do but one thing; Love it All.

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

Success in business doesn't come without passion, vision, hard work, and knowing that you're doing the right thing.

One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day.

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.

You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father.

Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Avoid spending too much on one thing.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past.

The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?