The Thing Quotes

There are so many errors and misstatements in that list that I won't even begin to name them. Obama was right about one thing, though - Islam has always been a part of America's story.

If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.

One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.

One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.

You know, the bowling alley doesn‘t seem to be improving my game. That‘s the one thing I have noticed.

My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.

Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.

The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people's lives, with real individuals.

I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing.

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.

One thing you can't do to a fan is change their heart about somebody.

The key is to make sure you are doing the "right things" before you worry about doing things "right".

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid.

If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

It's one thing believing in yourself, it's another thing having other people believe in you, and that is the greatest gift, honestly.

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.

When he arrived, Keith (Olbermann) had one thing in mind: it was Keith. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that.

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

If someone really loves you, they'll do the right thing... for you.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love.

Hollywood is full of guys who say one thing, and then do another.

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.

If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.

The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.

You know, most of my career I wrote about moments in time. All of us have felt one thing or another and it didn't last very long. Now I'm drawing from real experience. It's a huge difference.

Just got a new car - got a little Miata convertible. Pretty happy about it, except for one thing: I'm 6-foot-6, so now I look like a McDonald's toy.