Thing Quotes

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.

A joke is a very serious thing.

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

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.