Thing Quotes

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.