Quotes about thing

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“He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.”

“Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it," Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. "And I usually love sparkly things.”

“Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

“The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do.”

“We men are wretched things.”

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”

“I try to be good but sometimes
a person just has to break out and
act like the wild and springy thing
one used to be. It's impossible not
to remember wild an want it back.”

“Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”

“Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold…”

“He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.”

“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.”

“A man is more than the sum of all the things he can do.”

“Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.”

“I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.”

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”

“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”

“Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it… myself included.”

“What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever."
Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever.”

“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”

“When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.”

“When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.”

“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”

“Things always seem to end before they start”

“Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.”

“My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.”

“The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.”

“It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.”

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.”

“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”

“I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II”

“have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.”

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

“The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”

“When you come to the edge of all the light you know,
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
FAITH is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on
or you will be taught how to fly.”

“Contrary to what phenomenology—which is always phenomenology of perception—has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.”

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

“… and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.”

“Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!”

“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for.”

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.”

“I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.”

“Life is heavier than the weight of all things.”

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.”

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

“I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.”

“I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!”

“Seek always to do some good, somewhere… Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”

“Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”

“does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?”

“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”

“It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.”

“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.”

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”

“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”

“I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things.”

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”

“The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you… and then, the worse things get.”

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”

“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”

“The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.”

“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”

“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”

“She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.”

“The trouble with witches is that they’ll never run away from things they really hate.

And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them’s a mongoose.”

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

“Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.”

“I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.”

“Now I remember why I hate eating sheep. Horrible, fluffy things that give me hair balls and indigestion. ( Saphira from the Eragon Series)”

“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.”

“What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very
different things.”

“The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.”

“By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by
simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention,
purity in the affection.”

“I am glad that the country world…retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its vocabulary of definite terms, and of its habit of earthly common sense. I find this country writing an excellent corrective of the urban vocabulary of abstractions and of the emotion disguised as thinking which abstractions and humbug have loosed upon the world. May there always be such things as a door, a milk pail, and a loaf of bread, and words to do them honor.”

“In this world, who can do a thing, will not;
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:
Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —
And thus we half-men struggle.”

“I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”

“It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes”

“Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.”

“Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, Nature struggles to pour life.”

“To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”

“It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.”

“The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.”

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”

“The knowledge of all things is possible”

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”

“The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.”

“In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.”

“The best thing in life aren't things.”

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”

“Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.”

“I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.”