Thing Quotes

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.