Best 81 quotes in «thing quotes» category

21. Take in a great breath of air and then blow it out. Contained in that single breath were at least three nitrogen atoms that were breathed by every human being who ever lived, including Jesus Christ, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, and every president of the United States. This illustrates the fact that everything we do affects other people, positively or negatively. That’s why it is foolish to say, “Do your own thing if it doesn’t hurt anybody else.” Everything we do affects other people.

22. Faith in God is like believing a man can walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope while pushing a wheelbarrow. Trust in God is like getting in the wheelbarrow! To believe God can do something miraculous is one thing; to risk His willingness to do it in your life is another.

AAAAIIIE! You're the guy with the things, and the thing that does that thing, and then you did that one thing! Oh, and I think there's something about other things, and maybe you fix things? -Sergeant Schlock

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

Being captain of such a vessel was not a stressful job, despite the sheer size of the thing. Everything was automated, and this meant that this behemoth could be efficiently handled by a far less seasoned captain. Besides, hiring mature skippers with actual experience would cost real money. And hey, the computers ran everything anyway – and that’s how Bran Johannsen enters this story – as a fine young inexperienced graduate of the Merchant Space Academy in Mars City, who only got his Executive Officer’s ticket four short years ago.

Acceptance of a thing makes it easier," he said. "No amount of resisting ever kept winter from coming.

Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery.

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me." Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship.

Did reiser og nogle Mænd aarlig af stæd, Som skal for Laugmanden aflegge sin Eed, Laug-Rættes-Mænd Loven dem nævner; Om hver den der sværger, forstaar sig derpaa, Det lader jeg denne gang u-omtalt staa, Til Dagen naar HErren indstævner.

Everything opens a new door, a book opens a new door, facts open a new door. So choose your favourite thing and I promise it will open a door.

Getting loved by yourself is the best thing that can happen to you. After all your heart is a part of you. Before being someone else's.

If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and without accompanying thoughts, such as “I’m a good person for doing this” or “Isn’t it wonderful, that I can take care of everything?,” then that would be sufficient.

If peaceful protesting really worked, the need to peacefully protest would have subsided to almost zero a long time ago! Instead, the thing that has subsided to almost zero are the number of complaints filed against police officers that are actually upheld.

If the same thing always suddenly comes to mind, that's the things you wanted the most.

I know one thing… Bible is Damn wrong about everything.

I know now, what is the worst thing about broken heart. I am not dead.

It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent

Dark matter or invisible element? You decide.

Doing one thing at a time and giving oneself wholly to doing it is the most efficient way one can possibly live, because there’s no blockage in the organism whatsoever. When we live and work in that way, we are extremely efficient without being rushed. Life is very smooth.

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.

Failures are in the positions they are in today because they are yet to follow the footprints of those who walk, think, and breathe success.

Give me any goddamn thing and I will do it with style!

I felt a smile on my face. "Thanks." "For what?" "Using my name instead of calling me a thing.

If you are not satisfied with the things you have got then stop crying and start working and go get those things that will satisfy you.

If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.

I just wanted silence, not rage, not anger, not going trouble... One simple thing silence!

I look up to as God every person, thing or thought that makes life worth living one day longer

I’ve created the most beautiful things out of my sadness.

Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.

Most of the time things against nature are scarier than the scariest things of nature

One of the most important thing is that you need to write down your goals and plans

One thing is true and that Humans are the examples of killers which destroy other fellows dreams.

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn’t the same thing as easy.

Maybe it's a green thing or a wolf thing or a short-circuit thing. I don’t seem to know anything.

One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, prose must not. It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as the clouds of dawn,—it is not fitting at all that all this should be narrated, and it is too much to have even called attention to it.

Poetry is seeing everything when there is only one thing. It is looking at a rose but seeing the stars, moons, seas, and trees. It is a truth beyond logic, an experience beyond thought. Poetry is the Earth pausing on its axis in order to manifest itself as a rose.

Salvation is the most important thing that a person has and the devil knows very well what its value is.

So enjoy the exhilaration when it comes. Take the ride to the heights when you get the opportunity. But don't get hooked on the thrill of the moment. Take charge of your emotions. And when it comes time to do the right thing, don't let your feelings lead you to compromise. That is the way to live a happier, more successful life and one that is more pleasing to God.

So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.

The best thing ever done is just to sit on my computer and to watch there television, I decide when to stop and when to start. I decide what to be and what not to be.

Sometimes I just say that to read one thing more than twice is just a losing of time, but some stuff are used a lot of times, are read a lot of times until the meaning is get...

The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.

Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?

Success' is world's most beautiful thing

The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice.

The most frustrating thing about our doctrine in the modern church is that the unbelievers who have never been to church, the agnostics, those who are out rightly atheist, don’t have to fight with whether they are supposed to dominate the earth or not, they just go ahead and do it

The most important thing that a human must do in order to maintain good health is to be aware of the environment that they grew up in and to keep it throughout life.

The most important thing you need to do to accomplish your purpose is to stop, get comfortable, sit down and find time for thinking

The only good thing about sadness is that nobody's jealous of it.