Thing Quotes

Death is a fearful thing.

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

Doing the right thing has power.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

The big thing I've discovered, the big secret, is that it's all about how happy you are. It's the ultimate thing. People forget your flaws and imperfections if they see you're happy.

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

Love is an interesting thing.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.