Thing Quotes

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.