Thing Quotes

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.