Quotes about thing

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“If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.”

“There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

“There’s no point in believing in things that exist.”

“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.”

“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”

“Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.”

“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”

“The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.”

“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

“One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.”

“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”

“There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.”

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it”

“Some things were beyond understanding.”

“I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.”

“I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.”

“There are things stronger than the strongest man…”

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.”

“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”

“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”

“I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”

“Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.”

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”

“It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine…. how much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex, to talk of male and female education and of male and female schools. [written with Elizabeth Cady Stanton]”

“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.”

“Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don’t you?”

“Peace and joy are not things you attain at the end of life. They are the basis of your life.”

“Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax couldin a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.”

“Optimism is a cure for many things.”

“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.”

“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”

“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”

“I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.”

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

“It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.”

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”

“The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.”

“Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all.”

“The polite thing would be to go back inside, give you privacy when you read it. But, I’m just not that mature.'
'It’s nothing. Fine.' Feeling foolish, Laurel opened the envelope.”

“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.”

“There is no such thing as happy music.”

“What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked.
"I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.”

“The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell".”

“Of all things love is the most potent.”

“Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things.”

“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”

“But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?”

“It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.”

“A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy…”

“This thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.”

“There is no such thing as an ordinary life.”

“This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”

“Things every person should have:

•A nemesis.
•An evil twin.
•A secret headquarters.
•An escape hatch.
•A partner in crime.
•A secret identity.”

“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.”

“We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”

“Things are never as bad as they seem.”

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”

“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”

“It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”

“You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mean a Neptune thing."
"Then you and Arion should get along fine," Hazel said. "He's a son of Neptune too."
Percy turned pale. "Excuse me?”

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

“Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.”

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.”

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”

“The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing… love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.”

“She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”

“Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.”

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.”

“I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.”

“Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!”

“Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded.
Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.”
You both sound like my mother,” I said.
Shut up!” they both said in union.”

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

“I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.”

“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”

“Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight.
Mercutio: And so did I.
Romeo: Well, what was yours?
Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.
Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.”

“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.”

“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave… you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing”

“Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.”

“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”

“The really important thing is not to reject anything.”

“The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different.”

“Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.”

“Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”