There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.
Bullying is never fun, it’s a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
I’m a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Death is a fearful thing.
Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
We all have different sides; nobody is just one thing.
Some days I’m up, some days I’m down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.
It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
The best thing is to invest in yourself, because it takes money to make money.
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that’s just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done.
If you’re too methodical, too fearful, you’re not going to win. But the clever thing is to make the calculation correctly about where and when to go over the top. You’ve got to know when to push it and when to come back.
Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.
The only thing that can stop me from being me is me.
In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it’s always possible.
Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
When a fellow says, ‘It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,’ it’s the money.
Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don’t outgrow where you come from.
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
When you surround yourself with like-minded athletes who are all going through the same thing as you, it gives you more drive and strength to get through those moments when you don’t want to do it any more, when you think it’s hard.
And one more thing.
I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that’s the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
It’s the same with success and failure. There’s always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, ‘Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,’ the first thing I said was, ‘Lee, you can’t make a race horse out of a mule. I don’t want to do it.’ He said, ‘I didn’t ask you to make it; you work for me.’
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don’t tell me jokes – I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
I’ve always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it’s also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
It’s such a funny thing when you see your daughter transitioning from your baby, your little girl, to suddenly being a young woman. If you’re not really looking for it, you can miss it, and Lily-Rose is on that road already, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Quitting is the easiest thing to do.
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life – just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I’m doing what I’m doing. I just thank Him. I don’t know how I deserve it, but it’s completely because of Him.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
A man’s conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
