Top 1200 Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.

The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing.

I have this thing in the back of my brain that dares me to think of the most disturbing thing.

At the core of every person or belief, there's a pain and a thorn. There's always something, whether it's a physical thing, a health thing, or an I wish I had someone or something in my life thing. We all know some level of pain, so I like to see the ugliness of characters. It's a side that we show, only when we strip down in the bathroom mirror.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren't prepared to back it up.

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.

Doing a film with your friend is probably the best way to end that friendship but we worked together really well. We just have that thing. Chemistry is something that... I just think it is the last thing in Hollywood, the last magical thing they haven't computerised. There's nothing you can do about it - it's either there or it's not and it doesn't matter if you're friends or not. It was just a bonus that we were.

The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all.

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

It wasn't the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing 'Wild Thing.'

If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don’t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. It’s that simple.

Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

I really wish this wasn't a thing. But this tumor is a thing. Even though it's not what I would have chosen for myself, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be all bad. What I keep trying to remind myself is this is one of those things that looks like a really bad thing on the outside but I know too little about life to be sure.

You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

I did once leave one of [my kid] watching something on YouTube, something completely innocuous, and I went out of the room and the algorithm kept playing the next thing and the next thing and somehow worked its way around to showing him the trailer for John Carpenter's The Thing - at which point I walked back in. He wasn't happy.

Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of such value.

The really strong key thing always comes direct to your heart. Even if it's a visual thing it doesn't come to your eyes! Even if it is a listening thing it doesn't come to your ears, it goes directly to your spirit!

To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.

The hardest thing in comedy is to have the biggest laugh at the end, and it’s the most satisfying thing.

When you model, you don't really have control over your image. It can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing. It can be a good thing in the sense that, actually, you have to get reintroduced to yourself. You don't always get that opportunity in your normal life. You can kind of hide from yourself.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

You can't just be in one thing and be comfortable in that one thing. You have to understand multiple things and how they all connect.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Pace is the most important thing. That is the one thing that I have had throughout my whole career.

I never write with constraints, which I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.

I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.

The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.

The thing that I've always been a little bit jealous of is a complete, a total giving to one form, like a genre, and just a mastery of it. My thing is very different. It's a complete embrace of something, but I've never been able to say, 'I believe in this.' The only thing I believe in is that I'm in this perpetual state of disbelief.

If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.

Have a healthy mental attitude; that's the most important thing and the best thing you can do for yourself.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

It's one thing when my family is just happy, but it's another thing when they're really proud of me.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.

Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.