Thing Quotes

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.