Thing We Quotes

#1. Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#2. Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.

Terry Zwigoff

#3. The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Bud Selig

#4. It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to me. "Because we don't have much else going for us as bowlers.

Kiersten White

#5. 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.

Bill Gates

#6. I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.

Rachel Roy

#7. Great things only happen when we love the thing we are doing.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews.

Yair Lapid

#9. The worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.

Fritz Gerlich

#10. The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.

Stormie O'martian

#11. The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Bob Iger

#12. The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting.

Edward Hirsch

#13. Why do you have to take every good thing we try to give you and break it into pieces?" Nico said. "You let them turn you into this ... "
"This is who I am," Clancy snapped. "I won't let them change me. I won't let them touch me. Not again.

Alexandra Bracken

#14. In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

George Takei

#15. Mrs. Roberts, you remember when Mr. Roberts was out of town and you had me over? The thing we did with the pie? Who would have thought I could eat a whole pie, but then again who would have thought you could hold an entire pie down, well, down there?

Alex Morgan

#16. The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

Christopher Fry

#17. Gear is money, and if there's one thing we know about Hollywood, it's that money talks.

Elle Schneider

#18. The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.

Fred Shuttlesworth

#19. Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one.

Debasish Mridha

#20. When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.

Maeve Binchy

#21. Think about everything you read and everything you see. The one thing we can learn from all the horrible things that have happened in the last 15-20 years is that hysteria is the last thing we need. Cool thinking, pragmatism, and analytical thought are most important at this point.

Greg Proops

#22. Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Robin Wasserman

#23. We're not trying to raise good kids. We're trying to raise kids who become great adults. That's a very different thing. We all know parents who had kids that when they turned 18 left the house and went nuts.

Andy Andrews

#24. Maybe we'll admit this thing we have is perfect, not worth messing around with. And stay together forever. If you're interested, that is."
She glanced away. "I could think about that."
He buried his face in her neck. "Think fast

Robyn Carr

#25. What are other people to us? Material. The stuff of our work. Whom do we love more, the girl or the portrait, the thing we've made of her? We artists, we're not quite human, are we? We love no one.

David Gordon

#26. Not one thing we've done changes that we are his. That he created us and loves us with a love more fierce and loyal than any we will ever know. He isn't looking for perfection. He's looking for humble hearts that know we are nothing without his lavish grace.

Melanie Shankle

#27. Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

Hector Bianciotti

#28. I think the first thing we need to talk about is you not running around in tight T-shirts and yoga pants." "Fine. I'll stop doing that as soon as you shave." Jack ran his hand along his jaw and grinned. "You like the scruff, huh?" Did she ever.

Julie James

#29. The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.

Nolan Bushnell

#30. Because if there's one thing we know about lesbians, it's that none of them wear bras.

Leila Sales

#31. Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

Dale E. Jones

#32. We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.

Louise Hay

#33. We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Steve Jobs

#34. The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else
we are the busiest people in the world.

Eric Hoffer

#35. We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The

Cinda Williams Chima

#36. As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#37. We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

Walter Benjamin

#38. When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, 'Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming.'

Ashley Judd

#39. The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together.

Chuck Noll

#40. Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.

Andy Andrews

#41. Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#42. We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love.

Daniel Gillies

#43. The magic never worked! The only thing we're left with is regret.

Yuna

#44. To get at the cause for a thing, we must study the effect.

Agatha Christie

#45. What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

Orson Scott Card

#46. This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

Steve Almond

#47. Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed.

Colson Whitehead

#48. We can what if ourselves to death, but it won't do anything. The only thing we can do is keep moving even when it feels like you're walking through a pit of cement.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#49. What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

Elisabeth Elliot

#50. The thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

Sam Altman

#51. We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

Rita Williams-Garcia

#52. The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Sakyong Mipham

#53. Following a trend is useful, until you start alienating the original. The last thing we want is to live in a world where everything is the same. Originality and individuality is key.

J.S. Strange

#54. One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike
and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Albert Einstein

#55. We're all selfish. It's an age thing. We go spotty, disobedient and daft. But most of all, we go selfish

Ruth Hamilton

#56. I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.

Charles Spurgeon

#57. I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.

Tom Selleck

#58. if all truth has its source in God and if all truth is unified, then one thing we know to be a fact is that if there is a contradiction between an interpretation of Scripture and an interpretation of what God has created, then one or both of those interpretations is incorrect.

Keith A. Mathison

#59. Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.

Ben Bradlee

#60. Life doesn't always go our way. But one thing we know and can stand upon. Jesus has burst open the gates of LIFE. So we look ahead with great joy. The Story of God is one of hope, promise and life eternal.

Anusha Atukorala

#61. If the only thing we have when we leave a time of Bible study is more head knowledge and a spiritual to-do list for the week, we've missed the point.

Trevin Wax

#62. We are all capable of so much more than we think, the only thing we need to do is change our beliefs

Steven Aitchison

#63. The purpose of minimalist living is to get us to a point where every single thing we have in our homes is something that brings us ongoing joy or provides usefulness regularly.

Genevieve Parker Hill

#64. I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

Philemon

#65. The past and the present, might we say, go like this. The future is a maybe. Yet we look back on the darkness that obscures the path that brought us fair, we only come up with another indefinite maybe. The only thing we perceive with any clarity is the present moment, and even that just passes by.

Haruki Murakami

#66. Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.

Brandon Boyd

#67. Our decisions are the one thing we can control. Today's the day to make those choices really count.

Michael Hyatt

#68. My grandmother was a Greenpeace supporter. We've always done that sort of thing; we've always believed in helping others - it's part of our ethos.

Michael Hintze

#69. Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

Steven James

#70. The thing we want the most is always the thing we cannot have.

Dean Koontz

#71. The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

Jon Stewart

#72. some language, somewhere, that is what Caillen means. Now come over here and let me check out your head wound. Last thing we need is for you to have brain damage." "I already have brain damage. Why else would I be here?" He snorted. "Yeah, I resemble that remark." Desideria

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#73. Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

Nick Cave

#74. The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

Carlos Castaneda

#75. The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

Mark Nepo

#76. Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ...

Sigrid Undset

#77. If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word "identity" has reached an end.

Don DeLillo

#78. Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.

Chris Asplen

#79. It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Barbara Kingsolver

#80. If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#81. Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

Scott Westerfeld

#82. We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

E.F. Schumacher

#83. The smile he gave her was barely one at all. We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.

Kristin Hannah

#84. The only thing we have to fear ... is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#85. We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

J. William Fulbright

#86. The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.

William, Saroyan

#87. Every day you live is a day for dreaming.
Every day is a day for adventuring.
And every day is for sharing with people you love,
because love's all that lasts.
It's the only thing we carry out of this world.
It connects us all, in the end.

Natalie Lloyd

#88. Time, the thing we can't beat back ... Yet, time is also what it takes to heal, what it takes for certain memory cells to die.
Maybe time doesn't heal. Maybe it doesn't even pass. We pass through time, and come out stunned, so rage, and memory, are blurred.

Kiana Davenport

#89. I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#90. The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

Marcus Aurelius

#91. The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we'd had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.

Alan Davies

#92. Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous.

Frederick Lenz

#93. When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing.

Roberto Bolano

#94. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.' Albert Einstein

Blake Crouch

#95. If there is one thing we admire about National Socialism it's the fact that it has succeeded, for the first time in German politics, in the complete mobilisation of human stupidity."30

Volker Ullrich

#96. The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it.

Sam Hamill

#97. Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future. It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected. In short, campaigns may be the closest thing we have to democracy itself.

Gloria Steinem

#98. The one thing we truly don't understand about God, about Life, and about Humanity is that we are ONE!

Timothy Pina

#99. One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

Howard Rheingold

#100. The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention ... . A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen