Thing Quotes

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

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