Thing Quotes

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Love is a credulous thing.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.