Top 685 Thing Quotes

In this post, you will find great Thing Quotes from famous people, such as Brandon Jenner, Monica Bellucci, James Russell Lowell, Joan Jett, Aaron Rodgers. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.
Brandon Jenner
Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn’t do anything – it was given to you.
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
Surround yourself with really good people. I think that’s an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
Saying ‘yes’ to one thing means saying ‘no’ to another. That’s why decisions can be hard sometimes.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
It’s better to enjoy lifeselection is a temporary thing.
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Epicurus
Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
You learn a lot when you’re barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.
I can sing ‘Happy Birthday‘ to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it’s a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you’re cute.
There’s no such thing as quality time; there’s only quantity time.
Steve Schirripa
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
Ossie Davis
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.
That’s the thing about awards – it’s for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
Henry J. Heinz
No matter what job or industry you’re in, life is hard, but we’re all going through a difficult time and the best thing we can do is pick each other up and move on together.
Don’t get caught up in the ‘look’ thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that’s not always a good thing because what’s good on the outside is not always good on the inside.
Keith Sweat
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid

The thing I always say to people is this: ‘If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.’
Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.
Morrie Schwartz
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody‘s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Diogenes
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.
My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man‘s eyes.
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn’t care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
I want the same thing I’ve wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.
There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
Robert Burns
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.
Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward
The most important thing is that we are on the right pa

The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Herb Caen
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
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.
There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe – because I’ve done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
The only gossip I’m interested in is things from the Weekly World News – ‘Woman’s bra bursts, 11 injured‘. That kind of thing.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
I have a mole in my eye, which is a very specific thing.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the

My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the ‘New York Times‘ one every morning. Then I go to the barn to see my horse.
One thing I could tell you is that I’m all over the place.
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Time is the least thing we have of.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
It’s so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It’s when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
As a shooter, the one thing you want to be is consistent.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.
Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you’re banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things – but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.
Life is full of adventure. There’s no such thing as a clear pathway.
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher‘s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
Don Herold
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
John Lubbock
A chef’s palate is born out of his childhood, and one thing all chefs have in common is a mother who can cook.
Scars are a truly beautiful thing. Yes, they can be a little ugly on the outside, but scars show that you’re a survivor, that you made it through something, and not only did you make it through, but now you’re stronger and wiser and more educated because of that tough time that you went through.
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
That’s the only thing I don’t like – people always got something to say about my life. I don’t know nothing about their life. People just judge you when they don’t even know you.
21 Savage
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the l

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.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.
When I auditioned for ’21 Jump Street,’ it was a last minute thing. I had one of the worst flus that I’ve ever experienced in my life, and I was forced to go to the audition, the screen test.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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.
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
Adrenaline has always been my thing.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton
That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone’s physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It’s better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it’s a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.
Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can’t hear, and not bothering.
Know what’s important and what isn’t. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don’t, and the courage to stop those who won’t.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
Frank Norris
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you’re doing.
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
Matthew Arnold
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.
The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can

The biggest lesson that I’ve learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it’s head.
You can’t control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can’t control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
The best thing of all is God is with us.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
I’ve got nothing against plastic surgery at all. I know lots of people, young and old, who’ve had it. The point about good surgery is you can’t see it. The important thing is not to go crazy – and not to go to a bad surgeon.
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.
One thing that you can’t fake is chemistry.
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Pythagoras
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
John Donne
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
There’s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
I’ve never met an animal I didn’t like, and I can’t say the same thing about people.
Doris Day
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we’re not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
Erik Erikson
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
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.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between educatio

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
I haven‘t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.
Michael Landon
I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.
I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.
I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.
Fashion is one thing, but style is another.
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
I always work with a goal – and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
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.
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
Charles Mackay
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
If you’re too methodical, too fearful, you’re not going to win. But the clever thing is to make the calculation correctly about where and when to go over the top. You’ve got to know when to push it and when to come back.
Colin McRae
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand
Fake news is a big thing in the field of Social Media Journalism. Fake news can be as simple has spreading misinformation.or as dangerous as smearing hateful propaganda.
It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It mu

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Every single woman is beautifully unique, and the sexiest thing she can do is own her curves, embrace her differences, and stand tall in exactly who she is.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Robert Burns
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
It’s about respect and the morals and the value of life. And treat people how you want to be treated. That’s the biggest thing I was brought up on from my parents.
One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best.
Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
Ricki Lake
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.
That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Frank A. Clark
Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
When a fellow says, ‘It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,’ it’s the money.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you’re trying to figure it out, and you’re really looking in the right direction, everything’s going to be all right.
The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it’s not as good as you’d hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.
I’ve always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don’t write about it.
This conflict is one thing I’ve been waiting for. I’m well and strong and young – young enough to go to the front. If I can’t be a soldier, I’ll help soldiers.
Clara Barton
You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus
The future doesn’t exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we’re the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.
You are so much more than the worst thing you’ve ever done.
I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn’t that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who’s tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.
Gary Gygax
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.’
Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
Thomas Edward Brown
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante Alighieri
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you’re certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you’re gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
The most important thing is to try to do your best.
The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that’s a good thing to learn.
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‘I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.’ ‘Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.’ ‘They probably don’t even realize how they sound.’
Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's

Colleagues are a wonderful thing – but mentors, that’s where the real work gets done.
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin Pierce Adams
Some days I’m up, some days I’m down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.
Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.
The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can’t be affected by what people are saying.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
Life goes on, and I’m moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you’re alive.
The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It’s just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don’t buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
I’m a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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.
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn’t serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can’t be taught.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
We all have different sides; nobody is just one thing.
Lotte Verbeek
The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.
To be free and to live a free life – that is the most beautiful thing there is.
Miguel Indurain
For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
‘The Grand Budapest Hotel‘ is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United Statesalcohol production – and just handed it to criminals – a pretty remarkable thing to do.
Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.
Hugh Walpole
I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.
Kate Mara
That’s the funny thing about time. It is only in looking back that it’s easy to connect the dots. To see exactly why everything needed to happen the way that it did.
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.
The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‘I never want to be alone.’ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
Jalal Talabani
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Tracy Kidder
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that’s part of the fun – the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn’t allow us to enjoy the adventure.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
James Nathan Miller
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
Dave Mustaine
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
A man’s conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough – there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Robert Frank
The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‘That can be me.’ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you’re growing up, you’re walking down the street, you’ve got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can’t pass one person.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Thales
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Looking back isn’t going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.
McKayla Maroney
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.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of.
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.
When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are

When you lose a parent, you realize how vital they are to the foundation of your life. It’s impossible to understand what it means until that curtain is pulled. You’re an orphan. But then I think that life is kind of remarkable, and the thing that causes the biggest pain can also bring amazing energy.
The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.
I had been taught that if I cried, to be quiet about it, so whereas I never howled, the least thing made me cry both at school and at home. Crying tends to separate a child from other children, for even children dislike a cry baby, and I had no friends in the world.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
Joseph Stalin
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
I’m interested in that thing that happens where there’s a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there’s no sign that it’s going to get any better, and that’s the point when people quit. But some don’t.
The first thing I heard when I got in the business – not from my mentor – was, ‘Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.’ I’m here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.
There’s no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable, you see what you’re made of and who you are.
The best scientific evidence suggests temperatures are rising, and the best scientific evidence suggests man-made anthropogenic carbon emissions have some substantial thing to do with that. However, does that mean the trend will continue forever? We don’t know.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank

The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life – just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I’m doing what I’m doing. I just thank Him. I don’t know how I deserve it, but it’s completely because of Him.
I am a fairly mongrelized person – you know I’ve been a migrant my whole life, and it’s hard to think of myself as any pure one thing. And so I take it, I guess, very personally – this notion that migrants are bad and that mixing is bad and that people from other places are bad.
For me, it’s a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me ‘You’re not going to be a DJ.’
It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‘Hey, I wrote a song.’
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
It’s such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little girl, to suddenly being a young woman. If you’re not really looking for it, you can miss it, and LilyRose is on that road already, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.
George C. Marshall
My favorite thing is when we lift a trophy. Afterward, we can have a picture of us lifting a trophy. And that picture shows a lot of work, a lot of difficulty and a lot of sacrifice together.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.
We fear the thing we want the most.
Robert Anthony
The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
I’ve only kept one award in my whole life, and it’s the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It’s awesome.
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
Queen Victoria
The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.
Justine Larbalestier
That’s the great thing about a tractor. You can’t really hear the phone ring.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right p

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it’s always possible.
The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.
Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles you, and it takes away your confidence, and nobody deserves that.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike… you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it’s true.
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.
Jimmie Davis
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
For me, the main thing is to continue to work, continue to grind on everything and stay focused.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
Nancy Friday
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
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.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
There’s no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty.
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.
The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Jeff Rich
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
Never underestimate the power of confidence. If you believe you’re the dopest thing walking, you might convince people of the same just because you’re so headstrong about it as a fact.
I am a strong man, I am always looking forward and this is my main thing.
Abdoulaye Doucoure
We’re not perfect, but we want to do the right thing.
Charlie Bell
Just try to do the right thing, and that’s immediate karma: ‘I feel good about myself.’
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.
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.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
I don’t blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don’t have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, ‘Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,’ the first thing I said was, ‘Lee, you can’t make a race horse out of a mule. I don’t want to do it.’ He said, ‘I didn’t ask you to make it; you work for me.’
Carroll Shelby
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
The only thing that can stop me from being me is me.
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.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Ella Fitzgerald
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
The most important thing about global warming is this.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
Anna Freud
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It’s better than art because it’s from the creator.
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.
I think, a lot of times, people just want to be cool, and to be in love is not cool. But I think it’s the coolest. I think love is the coolest thing that there is.
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
J. Edgar Hoover
The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.
Andy Lau
If by chance some day you’re not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I’ve said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
Red Skelton
When movement isn’t enough, you dance, or when speaking isn’t enough, you sing. When it’s organic, and it’s earned like that in a musical, that’s when it works, and then there’s nothing like it because it’s this thing that takes you to a whole ‘nother level, you know?
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for – worth dying for.
Margaret Mitchell
I’m a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, ‘Enjoy life. Celebrate life.’
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
Christian Dior
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.
Adam Osborne
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
Kim Il-sung
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
Eugene McCarthy
If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you’ll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
Henry Van Dyke
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Peggy Fleming
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
Prince Philip
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don’t think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
e. e. cummings
One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.
Robert Byrd
What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it!
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.
In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you’re wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.
My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
Fetty Wap
Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
People don’t understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that’s been what has gotten me this far.
Competition is great. And as long as it’s friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it’s cool.
There is no such thing as part freedom.
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
The truth doesn’t change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That’s the thing about the truth. That’s the thing about real. It doesn’t change and it doesn’t have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it’s still real. It’s still the truth.
Life’s too short to dwell on things. When you go through experiences that are bad, it’s a good thing. You learn from it – become a stronger person. Life is a roller coaster, and you don’t know what’s going to be thrown at you next, so all you can do is give it your best shot.
People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn’t because they’re trying to fool you or because they’re hypocrites. It’s because they badly want to be that thing, and so they’ll try to be it.
Here’s the thing – if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it’s exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won’t work after that.
Step by step and the thing is done.
Charles Atlas
If Heaven exists, to know that there’s laughter, that would be a great thing.
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.
If you look at sculptures from hundreds of years ago, everyone’s naked. It’s not a bad thing.
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.
The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.
And one more thing.
The very important thing you should have is patience.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
John Owen
The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal

The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.
The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you’re trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing – building empathy for the people that you’re entrusted to help.
David M. Kelley
I’ve found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Self-care is the non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.
I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Some men play golf. I’ve got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation‘s maritime heritage.
My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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.
Amelia Earhart
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
e. e. cummings
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
Ian Smith
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.
I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.
Victor Borge
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
Cecil Rhodes
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
Francis Schaeffer
I don’t want to be just known for the way I dress. I want to be known for how I play, how I treat people, and how I am as a role model. I don’t just want to be, ‘He dresses cool’ or ‘He dresses crazy.’ You’re going to have lovers and haters. I want my golf game to be the main thing.
I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Carrie Snow
The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
Brad Henry
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
No great thing is created suddenly.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
William Barclay
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I’m a strong person and a strong individual. And that’s what I take with me every day.
There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
I’ll keep going. That’s one thing about myself – I’ll roll my sleeves up and keep going.
I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Martin Lawrence
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash – a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
It’s a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.
I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
Samuel Gompers
It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and

It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Bullying is never fun, it’s a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
Raini Rodriguez
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
What after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.
Christopher Fry
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
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.
Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you’re risking, what you’re bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn’t hurt anybody else.
Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.
I’ve always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it’s also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
It’s a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I’d be a drag queen.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That’s always been my thing.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Will Cuppy
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Taking risks is the best thing ever, and that’s what gets you anywhere.
Benee
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.
I’m happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It’s my favorite thing to do, for sure.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
I don’t know if I can relax. Relax, I can’t do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.