Thing You Quotes

#1. Money is a very dangerous thing, you have to get know how to look after it or else you will loose it with ease and remember how you would've it in hard times.

Auliq Ice

#2. If I win... do you know what I would wish for?" Don't say it, don't say it. Don't say the thing you can't take back. I'd wish we never started any of this." The words echo in my head, in the air.

Jenny Han

#3. I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

Charlie Kaufman

#4. Let me tell you right now the one important thing you'll ever need to know: Own things. And let the things you own own other things. Then you'll own yourself and other people too.

Toni Morrison

#5. So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person?"
"I don't know," I admit."But I do think that some stains never wash out.

Jodi Picoult

#6. What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

Vint Cerf

#7. People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.

Alex Blumberg

#8. The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

Bill Kurtis

#9. One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

John Grisham

#10. Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

#11. Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!

Alice Hegan Rice

#12. One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

Jeff Goodell

#13. The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your
agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps it will
be the most urgent thing. Or the easiest. In fact, the most important
thing probably isn't even on your agenda.

Seth Godin

#14. I've learned that giving your heart away to someone is the bravest thing you can ever do. The one moment that it's cherished, no matter how brief, can help it to survive a lifetime.

Christine Brae

#15. There are men who seem to have seized the trunk of life, and he was one of them. It might not be for everyone, the great, scarring thing you could not get your arms around, but it was there for him.

James Salter

#16. I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#17. The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance.

Viktor E. Frankl

#18. The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

Adam Osborne

#19. Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

John Deacon

#20. First things first: A clean house simply looks better than a messy house. A room where everything has its place is nicer than a room filled with chaotic stacks and clutter. If you want your house to look nicer and have a better ambiance, the first and simplest thing you can do is to clean.

Katie Sawyer

#21. Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

Jimmy Page

#22. Always be working on at least one thing you'd be jealous of.

Damon Suede

#23. That's what makes a tragedy a tragedy. There's no rhyme or reason to it, only heartbreak. The only thing you can do when the ground stops shaking and the waters recede is try to save whoever's left.

Kimberly Belle

#24. It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

Kelly Macdonald

#25. Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do.

Mark Batterson

#26. The thing you want so desperately that the idea of having it makes you as sick to your stomach as the idea of never having it?

Lexi Ryan

#27. But nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Dean Young

#28. One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

Joe Garagiola

#29. As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.

Jason Clarke

#30. I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're ... sometimes ... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Elizabeth Edwards

#31. When you're obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you'll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

Evan Williams

#32. You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

Billy Wilder

#33. The single most wasteful thing you can do in marketing is try to change a mind.

Al Ries

#34. Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

McKayla Maroney

#35. Some things you cannot see or explain, but they are there, lurking.
Some things dwell in the dark: waiting ... watching ... haunting.
Sometimes evil takes on many forms, many faces.
And silence is the last thing you hear, when it's already too late.
THE SILENCE

Barry Brickey

#36. When asked the secret of how to look at the world afresh, with delighted eyes, Merlin said, You lack innocence. Having labeled a thing, you no longer see that thing, you see its label instead.

Deepak Chopra

#37. The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

#38. I love having somebody there - that companion thing. You know who you're going to eat with, who you're going to see a movie with.

Chris Rock

#39. OK," she said. "Let's try. But remember one thing. You're going to lose interest. At some point, it will happen. You don't think so now, but you'll get distracted. You have to stay with me. If we have a family together, you have to be here to help.

Louisa Hall

#40. But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

Juliet Marillier

#41. What I envisioned back in the 1970s was this thing you would wear as 'glass' over your right eye, and you could see the world though that glass. The glass then reconfigures the things you see.

Steve Mann

#42. That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.

Terry Pratchett

#43. Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.

Annie Leibovitz

#44. Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

Neil Gaiman

#45. Sometimes, the scariest thing you will ever have to do is trust God to fight the battles you can no longer fight.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. It's a good thing you don't bring Lily in to the bar. If they see what a beautiful baby you made, we'll have to double our napkin orders."
He propped his elbows on the bar so his face was very close to hers.
"I can't make magic like Lily with any woman but you.

Shannon Stacey

#47. After you do one thing, you've got one thing done.

Mike Caro

#48. Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

Mark Schultz

#49. Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

Margaret Bourke-White

#50. That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

Iain Duncan Smith

#51. The older you get and the wealthier you get, the more complicated life becomes. That's why I have as few material assets as possible. Every material thing you have is more hassle.

Peter Hargreaves

#52. The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Matt Taibbi

#53. Even through the smoke,
you are still the most beautiful thing
in this city and I, well, I am still
the last thing you'd save in a fire.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#54. Life is such good thing, you learn and at the same time you get close to god the most precious love. I love you god!

Diana Flores

#55. I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters is that it's truthful. That is not always the same thing. You really want to convey the spirit of the enterprise rather than ticking every single factual box.

Lucinda Coxon

#56. If you do a single thing - and especially if there is a lot of money in that single thing - you should put a 'Welcome, Robots!' doormat outside your office," wrote technology expert Farhad Manjoo in Slate. "They're coming for you.

Robert Wachter

#57. Fucking with one's therapist - even if one's therapist truly deserved to be fucked with - was the sort of thing you did when you were nineteen, not when you were thirty-nine.

Hanya Yanagihara

#58. It seems strange to want to find yourself. Wouldn't you want to find somebody else? Aren't you the one thing you can be sure of?

Brooke Davis

#59. The only thing you have to fear more than failure is success.

Ted Godwin

#60. Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing ... You decide ... For yourselves!!!

Eiichiro Oda

#61. One thing you can't do to a fan is change their heart about somebody.

Betty Wright

#62. Every time you make a mistake, don't bring up everything that's wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you're paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

John C. Maxwell

#63. The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.

Robert Wilson

#64. I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.

Christopher Walken

#65. When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Thich Nhat Hanh

#66. To avoid regret, you do and say and express every good thing you can possibly do and say and express to those you love. 'Cause you're going to find there isn't always time to whisper good-bye.

Andy Andrews

#67. Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.

John Ratey

#68. I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.

Forrest Gregg

#69. Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.

Megan Fox

#70. The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

Mark Hoppus

#71. A higher rate of vibration always destroys the lower rate of vibration. If we have negative things that we don't want, we need a goal in higher order of vibration. The thing you hate is yours and the thing you love is also yours. If it's not in your physical world, it's present in your mental world.

Hina Hashmi

#72. If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

Mike Dirnt

#73. You may have problems to solve but for every problem there is always a solution. It's a positive-and-negative thing: you can't have a problem without there being a solution. There always is. Your job is to find it ...

Brian Sibley

#74. He's never coming back. Whether you go or you don't go. So get in the car, because it's the last thing you can do with him.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#75. The next thing you know, the people you always thought would be there, aren't. And the person you thought you could trust with everything, isn't the person you knew at all.

Rebecca Donovan

#76. You, right this minute, stand at the growing tip of evolution. The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

Anonymous

#77. Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

#78. September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That's how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you're tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.

Catherynne M Valente

#79. The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.

Samuel Beckett

#80. There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper.The second-and perhaps even more important- is a good tune..with a simple popular melody.

John Betjeman

#81. If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

John C. Maxwell

#82. When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

Danny Glover

#83. To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

Ronnie Barker

#84. What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

Joseph Stiglitz

#85. Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.

Brennan Manning

#86. I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.

Gerry Harvey

#87. I imagine that in a closed, hermetic society like the mob, where everybody knows each other, it must be really, really unpleasant to have to kill people. It's the sort of thing you really want to avoid.

Andrew Dominik

#88. The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme,
Yes, absorb me.

Mooji

#89. You were a spoiled child who did a cruel thing. You deserved to be beaten and confined to your room, but you didn't deserve to lose everything.

Jeaniene Frost

#90. The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.

Tony Robbins

#91. Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

Vivian Gornick

#92. A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

Bill Maher

#93. You're coming with me, poor thing. You don't know how to listen. You don't know how to speak. You don't know how to sing. I will teach you. I followed poetry.

Joy Harjo

#94. I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive. (Explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick)

Laurie Anderson

#95. You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

Bruce Schneier

#96. To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

William Macneile Dixon

#97. STREETER: Let's just not argue. You can call me stupid, all right. I can call you a coward, all right. It's just I believe one thing, you believe something else. I think the world's got an outside chance, you believe it hasn't. That's all.

Robert Ardrey

#98. The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

Orrin Woodward

#99. Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

Bear Bryant

#100. The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

L. Neil Smith