Thing Quotes

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.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.