Thing Quotes

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.