Thing Quotes
You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.
Al KoranAl Koran The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
Conor McGregorConor McGregor There’s this really awesome theory of human motivation – that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
Angela DuckworthAngela Duckworth The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Robert A. HeinleinRobert A. Heinlein There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that’s what it’s all about in the end – everybody being happy and working it out.
NasNas most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
Al StewartAl Stewart Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
Stephen FryStephen Fry After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope I like to sit on things and digest them and then I’ll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.
Kevin DurantKevin Durant The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp What I don’t do – and this is the only thing I do differently in writing for kids – is that I don’t revel in the gory details.
Alan GratzAlan Gratz One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
Nadine GordimerNadine Gordimer