Thing Quotes

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.