Thing Quotes

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.