Thing Quotes

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

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.