Top 1200 Same Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.

One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

We're the same! Even Sonya says we are. We've always been the same, and we're both acting the same stupid way now! We hold ourselves to higher standards than everyone else.

I'm a very funny person that doesn't get the chance to do a lot of comedy, and the same thing with my accents.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don’t (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you don’t have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them.

I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

I don't mind doing the same thing. Actors who say, 'I'm looking for something different,' don't have jobs.

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.

The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.

The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.

We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.

Juggling 'Rangrasiya' and 'Jhalak' at the same time was a big thing. It has made me headstrong.

I don't think it's an unnatural thing at all for my collaborations or projects to be seen as art but entertainment at the same time.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the institution “schools” very well, but it does not “educate”; that’s inherent in the design of the thing. It’s not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It’s just impossible for education and schooling to be the same thing.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.

You don't want to be slavishly doing the same thing over and over again that everybody else has done, but at the same time, you're conscious of, "This is important. I owe something to my ten year old self right now. I need to respect that." I need for that kid who is obsessively reading comic books, I need there to be something rewarding for him where he's like, I didn't waste my time. I know what this is.

Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

My favorite thing is to have collectives. Even when it comes to filmmaking as well, filmmaking and music and most art in general, I feel like everyone should have the same say. If you're in a collective, I feel like everyone should have the same say.

One thing I've learned is I actually don't like variety very much. I like having the same thing over and over: assorted lean proteins, arugula salad, quinoa or brown rice with soy sauce, olive oil, lemon, and salt. Those ingredients can pretty much get me through the week.

I've been on the 'Tonight Show' a million times, and I'd be embarrassed to do the same thing more than once.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

I'm fascinated by the whole communist thing. No one has a lot, but everyone is the same. I like that way of living.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

I think television will do the same thing to radio that talkies did to silent movies.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.

I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

At most corporations if you make an acquisition and it turns out to be a disaster, all the paperwork and presentations that caused the dumb acquisition to be made are quickly forgotten. You've got denial, you've got everything in the world. You've got Pavlovian association tendency. Nobody even wants to even be associated with the damned thing or even mention it. At Johnson & Johnson, they make everybody revisit their old acquisitions and wade through the presentations. That is a very smart thing to do. And by the way, I do the same thing routinely.

We don't have the same philosophy, but I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to have a nickname associated with Jose Mourinho.

The most difficult thing is football is to give the ball to a player that has the same colour shirt.

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It's not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it's classical, I watched a lot of movies.

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.