The Thing Quotes

Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.

The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.

So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.

I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' so I tried out. One thing led to another and I appeared on 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show' and 'Oprah.

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.

A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design.

It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.