Quotes about thing

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“… 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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Things are always better in the morning.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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")”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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”

“Weird doors open. People fall into things.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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