The Thing Quotes

You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesnt work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

I know it's not the right thing to say, but I'm really happy with my body.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed.

One thing about pain: It proves you're alive.

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Change is one thing, progress is another.

Getting back on the surfboard after the [shark] attack was the hardest thing and I did it! After that, the hardest thing was my first competition.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another

Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.

The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.

If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

I don't go for girls who have beach blond hair, that stereotypical girl thing. But, you know, whatever comes around.

It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.

Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.

Paris Hilton is one of the hosts for Nicole Richie’s baby shower, and they’re serving sushi. Awesome, Paris—sushi, the one thing pregnant women are forbidden to eat. Thanks for the mercury.

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

Everyone's a racist. It's the one thing that makes us all the same.

Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.

There is one thing that 99 percent of 'failures' and 'successful' folks have in common - they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

What I've learned about my self over the years is that I'm pretty restless. If I multitask it's probably because I have difficulty just focusing on one thing.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

I try to do the right thing.

The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.