Top 115 Such A Thing Quotes

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it’s people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I would’ve loved to have seen Einstein’s face if he were presented with the data that we actually discovered such a thing, because he himself probably didn’t believe in much of it.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

I think the thing about it is when you grow up in Chicago there’s such a thing as putting on airs, you know? And you just learn not to put on airs. Don’t act like, ‘Oh boy, I’m somebody.’ They’ll slap you down.

I even reject and condemn in the strongest terms the idea, the consideration of a military coup. If I had the chance I would stand in front of the people who would attempt such a thing and open my arms and beg them to stop.

There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don’t believe you find it frequently.

I don’t really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I’d like to come back as my daughter’s dog.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

I don’t believe there is such a thing as ‘moderate Islam.’ I think it’s better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.

We talk about Hollywood being pro-labor, yet about 70% of our industry has been farmed out to Canada, meaning we are losing jobs like crazy. Where’s organized labor asking how we can allow such a thing to happen?

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

I don’t believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

It’s such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

Park Sion in ‘Good Doctor’ had a heart-aching love, but I don’t want such a thing. Love just should be a happiness.

And in fact I don’t believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That’s why I love it so much.

For years, I’ve had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress’s power in the future.

Let’s put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men’s liberation groups.

I don’t think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

Whom do you speak to about introducing a leap year? Is it heresy to request such a thing? Why do the Jews have one and we don’t?

My movie career – if such a thing even exists – is laughable.

In the ghetto we didn’t even know there was such a thing as a private jet.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

I was born in the overdub years. I wish there wasn’t such a thing as a multitrack tape player, because what you heard would be the record.

I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don’t believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn’t accept that.

It’s true that a smile can take years off a person – not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono’s case.

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

My dad every now and then will toe that line and be like, You could try women!’ And I’m like Don’t. It’s almost an endearing kind of homophobia, if such a thing exists.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It’s like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

I don’t think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

What’s a one person wrestling company? There’s not such a thing.

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

Kenny G is not real jazz. I don’t even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don’t think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.

There’s such a thing as retribution in sports.

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

Straight people say, ‘You know you’re just gay,’ and gay people say, ‘You know you’re just gay.’ There is such a thing as bisexual!

I don’t deal with writer’s block, I don’t allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.

There is such a thing as ‘thanks-feeling’ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

I was required to jump from a parachute into a lake and for this I was dangled in the air 100 feet above the ground with the help of a harness. It was scary in the beginning as I had never attempted such a thing before.

Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can’t find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

I am surprised that everyone loves a criminal. It amazes me and I really don’t know how to react to it. Bob Biswas has become some sort of an idol, which is interesting because such a thing has happened for the first time.

I’d have to say, and I think that most Christians would hold the view, that there is such a thing as evil, and there are evil forces at work. You can articulate that by talking about Satan or the Devil; that’s sound, Scriptural teaching.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there’s such a thing as believability when you’re writing a novel.

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can’t be allowed to happen.