Thing Quotes

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Waxing my legs is pretty much the only thing I have to maintain.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

And one more thing.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.