Thing Quotes

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.