Thing Quotes

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.