Quotes about thing

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“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”

“You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.”

“Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.”

“Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.”

“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”

“The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.”

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

(, 8 September 1935)”

“Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)”

“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”

“Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.”

“Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.”

“I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”

“Three things never trust in-
The maiden sworn as pure,
The vows a king has given,
And an ambush that is sure.”

“Many strange things happen in this world”

“It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.”

“We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.”

“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

“It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.”

“I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth."

"And which do you love best?"

"The dream.”

“Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.”

“It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”

“There is no such thing as "Just a cat.”

“But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.”

“No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.”

“the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”

“I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.”

“Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants… Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.”

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”

“The kiss that was pressed against his own mouth was reverent, the contact no heavier than the warm, still air in the room. It was the consummate lover’s kiss, the kind of thing he had wanted even more than the hot sex they’d just had.”

“To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.”

“There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.”

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”

“Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.”

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”

“We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.”

“Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.”

“This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.”

“There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.”

“There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.”

“You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain”

“She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to be with you.”

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.”

“She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.”

“Sometimes it is necessary
To reteach a thing its loveliness”

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”

“If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions, by what we do.”

“you will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

“Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.”

“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”

“Did you hear? You are free."
Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.”

“All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch)…”

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

“The only
thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself.
My work done my way.
A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the
only way I function. That’s all I am.”

“Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”

“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

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“First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.”

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”

“The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.”

“It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car.
"Most things are”

“Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.”

“There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.”

“Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.”

“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

“The more you read, the more things you will know.”

“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”

“I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.”

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.”

“So let that be a lesson, kids who get an F in math. Ellen says you’re doing the right thing. You’re welcome, parents.”

“[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.”

“Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!”

“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”

“What I do know is that when I was sitting with you that night, I felt like God was telling me that I was doing the right thing.”

“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra…”

“Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.”

“She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.”

“After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.”

“Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.”

“So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”

“Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.”

“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”

“No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything…”

“And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention”

“I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.”

“It's your eyes. They're… more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.”

“Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.”

“Have faith in who you are. Believe that you will recover, and it will truly happen. And don't judge yourself too harshly. Some things are meant to be, and you had to fall so that later you may rise and become what you are truly meant to be.”

“Things without meaning are the most beautiful ones.”

“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”

“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”

“In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”