Quotes about thing

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“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything”

“I'd do a lot of things to protect you.”

“You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?”

“If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.”

“A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price”

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

“It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”

“When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.”

“Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning”

“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

“My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.”

“There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.”

“It didn’t matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice.
She raised her eyes to the Angel’s.
"Jace," she said.”

“He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.”

“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.”

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”

“Secret Notes:
He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born, he said, but we live in a strange neighborhood & they will need help figuring things out & I won't always be around to explain it to them.”

“Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce…”

“Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”

“Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.”

“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”
“That’s only three.”
Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.”

“Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.”

“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”

“Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.”

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.”

“Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.”

“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”

“Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.”

“But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.”

“The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.”

“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”

“Let nothing disturb thee;
Let nothing dismay thee:
All things pass;
God never changes.”

“I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear.
"Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock.
Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.”

“Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment… But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.”

“All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing:”

“It is funnier to bend things than to break them.”

“If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.”

“I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.”

“I'm a million different things every day of the week.”

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".”

“I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do."
"Uh… and that is?" Annabeth ventured.
"Why, have tea and chat, obviously”

“If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.”

“The thing about talking swords…it’s hard to tell when they’re kidding. They have no facial expressions. Or faces.”

“Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.”

“Maybe we shouldn't be living this way, without grass and trees, and ducks, always under pressure, always trying to catch up, never enough time or energy for the things we love, if we can even remember what those things are.”

“This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.”

“I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.”

“If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted”

“I always thought that 'Good things happen to those who do the wave' No wonder I've been so confused”

“That’s the thing when people leave us too suddenly, isn’t it? We always have so many questions.”

“No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up.”

“.

Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.”

“How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.”

“One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.”

“Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.”

“War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.”

“Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”

“Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.”

“I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.”

“The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.”

“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”

“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.”

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

“Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.”

“… but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.”

“since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”

“You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.”

“A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.”

“When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.”

“Ewwww-eee-wwww. Hey Ash, you vant to suck my blud? (Fang)
No, thanks. The last thing I want is to catch parvo from you, or some other freaky dog disease that makes me lift my leg around hydrants. (Acheron)”

“Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.”

“Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.
- Humbug”

“If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.”

“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

“Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.”

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

“I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.”

“Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.”

“Guys do ridiculous things for love." Adrian reached into his pocket and held up a pack of cigarettes. "Do you know how badly I want one of these right now? Yet I suffer, Rose. All for you.”

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”

“Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.”

“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.”

“Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?”

“You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.”

“The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.”

“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.”

“And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.”

“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”

“There were eleven of us.
Each more different than the next.
All with the same mindset.
Things weren't the way they were meant to be.
It was our job to make things right.
We were the soldiers of Halla.
It was time for us to take it back.”

“I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.”

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”

“Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.”

“Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”

“Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.”

“When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.”

“If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words”

“The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.”