Thing Quotes
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First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
Thomas A. Edison
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
Baruch Spinoza
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Honore de Balzac
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I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.
Harrison Ford
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Being an adult, you've already suffered enough from your own mistakes, and the world, to come to this as a humble human being. So it's not like, "I'm going to do the right thing because it advances me," as much as it's like, "I'm going to do the right thing because this puts me closest to the dream I had as a 10-year-old kid."
Killer Mike
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In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is.
Catherynne M. Valente
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There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.
Donald Miller
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Doug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day he's the best chipper I've ever seen. One thing Doug did was get the ball onto the green and rolling right away, keeping it as low as possible. He never hit his chips higher than was absolutely necessary.
Raymond Floyd
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The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
Saul Alinsky
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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
Oscar Wilde
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Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
Bill Gates
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It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
William Blake
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You don't know a thing about me.
Kelly Clarkson
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The journey of life – we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.
Nicole Kidman
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If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
Jane Austen
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They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
Victor Hugo
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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
Rudyard Kipling
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them
Courtney Milan
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As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
Michael Sheen
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The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party