Thing Quotes by Albert Einstein, Sophocles, Edwin Markham, Keanu Reeves, Walt Disney, Samuel Gompers and many others.
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.
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.
Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has.
For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
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.
Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn’t change a thing!
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it’s very relaxed and chill. I’m just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
I’m a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, ‘Enjoy life. Celebrate life.’
The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others‘ expectations or let others define my worth.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
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.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.
If you have a good support system like your family and your friends around you, then you can’t go wrong. So just believe in yourself, do you your thing, and stay strong in what you believe in.
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.
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 in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
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 only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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.
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.
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.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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.
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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.
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
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.
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.
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
We all have different sides; nobody is just one thing.
Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.
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 gossip I’m interested in is things from the Weekly World News – ‘Woman’s bra bursts, 11 injured‘. That kind of thing.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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.
The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
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.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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.
I’ve found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
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 most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.
My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
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.
You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can’t just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn’t come off the way you thought it should come off.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
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.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.
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.
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.
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don’t believe in hating people. It’s a retrogressive thing.
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.
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
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.
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.
It’s better to enjoy life – selection is a temporary thing.
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.’
The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
The best thing about YouTube is that anyone can do it, and that’s exactly what I did.
The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that’s a good thing to learn.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.
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.
Life is short. Don’t do the same thing everyone else is doing – that’s such a herd mentality. And don’t do something that’s two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.
Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing… It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
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.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.
My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
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.
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’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.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
Competition is great. And as long as it’s friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it’s cool.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.
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.
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.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.
I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.
Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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.
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.
Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That’s always been my thing.
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.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.
Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.
Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.
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.
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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.
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.
The very important thing you should have is patience.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.
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.
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that’s the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The best thing is to invest in yourself, because it takes money to make money.
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.
When you surround yourself with like-minded athletes who are all going through the same thing as you, it gives you more drive and strength to get through those moments when you don’t want to do it any more, when you think it’s hard.
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.
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.
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It’s better than art because it’s from the creator.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something. I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
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.
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.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
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.
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.
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.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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 important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best.
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.
Surround yourself with really good people. I think that’s an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.
That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
I want the same thing I’ve wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The most important thing is to stay down to earth and keep concentrating on the next game.
You are so much more than the worst thing you’ve ever done.
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.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
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.
If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
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.
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.
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.
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
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.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.
It’s been quite a roller coaster ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people‘s lives… for that I give thanks.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
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.
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.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what‘s in your way.
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
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.
The transgender bathroom thing – it’s just so obvious that people are scared of what they don’t understand. It’s like, ‘I don’t want to deal with the fact that some people might have been born in the wrong body.’
Adrenaline has always been my thing.
Nostalgia is one thing. It’s great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.
There’s no such thing as quality time; there’s only quantity time.
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.
Either you give in, or you fight. That’s all I know, being where I’m from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in 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.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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.
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
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.
No matter where I am, it’s all about one thing: My fans.
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
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.
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
We’re not perfect, but we want to do the right thing.
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.
What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
I am a strong man, I am always looking forward and this is my main thing.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
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.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
One thing I could tell you is that I’m all over the place.
Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won’t buy. It bought me a house but it won’t buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won’t buy me a friend.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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.
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.
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
It’s the same with success and failure. There’s always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.
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.
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.
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 only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
We fear the thing we want the most.
A man’s conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
And one more thing.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
The hardest thing about winning is to continue to win, and I think human instinct says ‘OK, I’ve done this before. I got it, let’s just keep doing what we’re doing.’
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you’re alive.
Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don’t tell me jokes – I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
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.
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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.
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.
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.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
God has no grandchildren. He has only children, so being a born-again Christian is not an automatic thing.
Quitting is the easiest thing to do.
The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.
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.
There’s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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.
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?
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
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.
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.
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 last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
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!
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.
I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.
You just have to find that thing that’s special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
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.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
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.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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 family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
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.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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.
I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
