Thing Quotes

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

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.

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.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.