Quotes about thing
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“There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman book The Yellow Wall Paper

The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
Source: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Dead

“Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

Marijuana

“There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Way, Madness

“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/16/he-knew-he-was-right-2 note: Our Short National Nightmare note: The New Yorker note: In The New Yorker, October 16, 2006 note: 2000s, 2006

Life, Sex

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”

Frank Serafini (1945) American politician

Hate, Children, Books, Reading

“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

Love, Women, Men, Understanding

“Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

“Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Understanding, Time

“There's no such thing as winning or losing. There isand there is; there isand. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still leftt to fight for.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Fight

“Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Love

“For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.”

David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music

“It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience

People, Thinking, Universe, Time

“Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

“I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

Feeling, Spring, Dance

“In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

People, Feeling, Imagination, Tree

“If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build, end up building us.”

Jack Canfield (1944) American writer

The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Confidence and Certainty

“… When it was finished, the scaled dragon looked around and as the thing spotted V, a growl rippled up to the bleachers, then ended in a snort. "You finished, big guy?" Va called down. "FYI, goalpost over there would work righteous as a toothpick.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Guy

“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Life

“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.”

Katharine Graham (1917–2001) American publisher

Way

“Truth is in things, and not in words.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

Truth, Sad, For Parents

“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

Family, Funny, Family

“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

The Waves (1931)

Death

“No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

Source: Wolf Hall

War, World, History

“Antonio-
"Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma."
Peter-
"Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

Time, Reading

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

People

“Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

“Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.”

Mathias Malzieu book La Mécanique du cœur

Source: La Mécanique du cœur

Love

“Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

World

“Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Pleasure, Way, Change, Personality

“Things are always better in the morning.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Art, Music, Feeling, Memory

“The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

People, Help, Speed, Forgetting

“True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library

Truth, Idea, Learning

“Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation… but I hear that it's coming quickly.”

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

God

“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”

Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are

Source: Where the Wild Things Are

Love

“Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

“Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

People, Understanding

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme… they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”

Philip Levine (1928–2015) Poet

Life

“Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: These Strange Ashes

God

“Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.”

Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline

Source: The Lords of Discipline

Life

“People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist

People, Dreams

“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Life

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

Susan Sontag book On Photography

Variant: to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Source: On Photography

Time, Personality

“These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

People

“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Life, Death, Funny

“The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“You know, one of these days, I'm actually going to take offense if people keep throwing out these slurs. And then things are going to get rather ugly. When we Skandians do take offense, we do it with a battleax.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

People

“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")”

Ray Bradbury book Long After Midnight

Source: Long After Midnight

Hunger, Drink, Time, Madness

“Every thought of yours is a real thing – a force.”

Rhonda Byrne book The Secret

Variant: Every idea from your thoughts is the real thing it's strength
Source: The Secret

“The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Source: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

Night

“Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Fashion

“I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

Love, Life, Hate, People

“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“stop talking about the things that are bothering you so much.”

Esther Hicks (1948) American writer

Source: The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide

“Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

“You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found…”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

“The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.”

Twyla Tharp (1941) American choreographer

People

“Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Love, Life, Learning

“Weird doors open. People fall into things.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

People

“To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.”

Geoff Dyer (1958) English writer

Source: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

Suffering

“I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.”

Walker Percy (1916–1990) Southern philosophical novelist

Age, Way

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

Ben Okri (1959) Nigerian writer

Love, Suffering, Inspirational

“Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Stupidity, Learning

“We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.”

Johanna Spyri book Heidi

Source: Heidi

God, Feeling, Forgetting

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.”

Gennifer Choldenko book Al Capone Does My Shirts

Source: Al Capone Does My Shirts

Love, Understanding, Sense

“If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw

Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw

Hope, Way, Change

“You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.”

Clive Barker book Abarat

Source: Abarat

Love, Life, Learning

“Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1

Fools, Reality, Appearance

“The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.”

Dave Eggers book A Hologram for the King

Source: A Hologram for the King

World, History, Thinking

“Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?”

Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer

Source: Night of the Soul Stealer

Life

“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids… but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Life

“I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."
"To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Hate, People, Thinking

“It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.”

Lisa Kleypas book Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

“Things change when you're not in danger anymore.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Change

“Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Thinking, Heart

“But then it passed, as all things do.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Attitude, Mother's Day, For Team

“… there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Fate, People

“The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions—none more so than the most capable.”

Theodore Dreiser book The Financier

Source: The Financier (1912), Ch. XIII

World

“For you, a thousand times over." Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything alright. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I'll take it. With open arms.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Smile, Time

“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Life, Happiness, Spring, Sun

“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Truth, Change

“I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Music, Color, Tree, Housing

“Darling" she said with a small laugh "Love doesn’t have anything to do with this."

"It has very thing to do with it!" I exclaimed.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

Love

“I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God

World, Idea, Personality, Flying

“You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?"
"Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.”

Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club

Source: The Jane Austen Book Club

Happiness, Books, Reading

“The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.”

Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

Source: The Sunset Limited

Love

“They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.”

John Connolly (1968) author

Source: The Reapers

Angels

“there are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Variant: Real Reason:
There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.

Love, Money, Feeling, Sense

“Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.”

Maud Hart Lovelace (1892–1980) American writer

Source: Betsy and the Great World / Betsy's Wedding

Perfection

“When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

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Quotes about thing
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