There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Surround yourself with really good people. I think that’s an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
To be free and to live a free life – that is the most beautiful thing there is.
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.
Saying ‘yes’ to one thing means saying ‘no’ to another. That’s why decisions can be hard sometimes.
I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Here’s the thing – if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it’s exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won’t work after that.
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits.
The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.
All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.
It’s about respect and the morals and the value of life. And treat people how you want to be treated. That’s the biggest thing I was brought up on from my parents.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
Competition is great. And as long as it’s friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it’s cool.
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you’re growing up, you’re walking down the street, you’ve got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can’t pass one person.
I don’t use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you’re using the bank’s money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank’s money, not yours.
Some men play golf. I’ve got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation’s maritime heritage.
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
It’s said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. In that case, the WWE ‘creative’ team must be as crazy as a rainbow trout in a car wash.
I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what’s the point. You can’t take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
