Quotes about thing

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“We value things like stability, control and feeling good. We often see truth as an oppositional force to these things, when in reality, truth is our only way of actually achieving these things.”

“When we understand that Who We Are is pure energy, the Essential Essence of Life itself, and that this energy not only composes us and comprises us, but is projected through us, from us, and outward into the world…and when we understand furthermore that energy affects other energy, that all energy impacts other energy…then we begin to understand that how we think about a thing determines how the thing is, and continues to be.”

“The goodness of the Universe is not limited. When something "looks as if" it is running out, do not fret. This, or something better, is on its way. Sufficiency is the natural order of things. Good never runs out -- although it may change form.”

“Do your best. That's all you can ask of yourself. If you did your best and things just didn't work out, you don't owe an apology to anyone. And you certainly don't need to feel 'bad' about it -- or, worse yet, guilty.”

“The statement "I have no choice" is a lie. Be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing. Then, do it gladly, knowing that you are always getting to do what you want. You can choose. Isn't that power?”

“Always keep your mind open. In all things, always keep your mind open. Everything is possible. Especially things you know nothing about.”

“The genetic expression within any given cell at any given time is not “fixed,” as many people think it is. It is not a static thing. Rather, it is continually adapting to both external and internal stimuli – meaning that it adjusts to the environment and to any changes in the surroundings, as well as to any changes within the body itself.”

“But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.”

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”

“In the midst of chaos, a book is the best thing you can hold on to.”

“It's easy to find people to do things. What's harder is to find people to tell you what should be done.”

“There's nothing in this world so sweet as love, and next to love the sweetest thing is hate.”

“He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted.”

“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”

“If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.”

“I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

“It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.”

“He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving -- that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.”

“It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”

“A compliment would be the last thing out of my mouth to a man who was so pigheaded that he could be served at a luau.”

“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”

“If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.”

“I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.”

“Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate.”

“… such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.”

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”

“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.”

“What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.”

“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”

“A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.”

“It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.”

“I would never betray Venda.”
“Sometimes we’re all pushed to do things we thought we could never do.”

“I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead. Well, I'm one of them. don't worry - I'm not like the Strigoi. But I did die once (I don't recommend it).”

“Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.”

“Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat."
-Jace, pg.241-”

“You were. You are
The brightest thing in the shop window
And the most beautiful seldom I ever saw”

“It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.”

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

“He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.”

“Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.”

“They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

“Reality is a fragile thing.”

“She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.”

“I reflected that everything happens to a man precisely, precisely now. Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen; countless men in the air, on the face of the earth and the sea, and all that really is happening is happening to me...”

“Everyone sees different things.”

“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me.”

“Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."
-Uncle Charles”

“Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.”

“That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.”

“It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.”

“Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.”

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”

“See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.”

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?”

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)”

“Alas! how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too deep or a kiss too long,
And then comes a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.”

“… the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.”

“Many people don't allow themselves to love… because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.”

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

“Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.”

“That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.”

“You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.”

“Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail…”

“It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.”

“And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.”

“She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.”

“I can't imagine what they're planning. But I can tell you two things. We won't like it, and it won't be legal.”

“She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma - that repetition - maybe you lived through the same thing over and over until you stopped caring. Maybe eventually it got less intense, until it was just nothing.”

“That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.”

“Come here, wild thing,” -Nick Allegrezza”

“Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”

“V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.”

“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.”

“Things weren’t the same with us, not right away, and maybe not ever. We were growing up. We were still figuring out how to be in each other’s lives without being everything to each other.”

“For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.”

“You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur… bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.”

“There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.”

“She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.”

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”

“History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.”

“These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.”

“Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory”

“I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.”

“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”

“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”

“It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.”

“You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”

“I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.”

“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

“The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk.
“Wax,” Carter pronounced.
“Fascinating.”

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”

“It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.”

“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”

“I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

“Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough.”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”

“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.”