Thing Quotes

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.