“The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.”
James Redfield book The Celestine Prophecy
Source: The Celestine Prophecy
Quotes about thing page 60
“If I propose, you'll know it. For one thing, I'll be hyperventilating.”
Richelle Mead (1976) American writer
Source: Succubus Dreams
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Variant: The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 28
“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.”
James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time
Source: The Fire Next Time
“The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.”
Joe Meno book The Boy Detective Fails
Source: The Boy Detective Fails
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
"Why Liberty?”, in the Chicago Tribune (30 January 1927)
1920s
Context: I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman’s club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
“Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects) (1745)
“I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Genuine Lies
“I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“Tell me of a happy memory, Zarek. One thing in your life that was good. (Astrid)
You. (Zarek)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil
Source: Dance with the Devil
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
Source: Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
“It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.”
Cynthia Leitich Smith (1967) American writer and poet
Source: Tantalize
“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North”
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Vol. 2, Ch. 23, § 296a
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Source: Counsels and Maxims (The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer)
James Redfield book The Celestine Prophecy
Source: The Celestine Prophecy
“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Annotations to Swedenborg (1788)
1780s
Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer
Source: Summer by the Sea
“By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.”
Scott B. Smith book A Simple Plan
Source: A Simple Plan
“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
David Levithan The Realm of Possibility
Source: The Realm of Possibility
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer
Source: Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
Pablo Casals (1876–1973) Catalan cellist and conductor
As quoted in Joys and Sorrows : Reflections by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn (1974) by Albert E. Kahn
“So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Variant: Max:"So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.
Source: Fang
Source: Lock and Key
Variant: We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
Source: Lock and Key
“It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Gunmetal Magic
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: Not So Deep As A Well: Collected Poems
“Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.”
Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
Ruth Rendell book A Judgement in Stone
Source: A Judgement in Stone
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 12
Context: Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology... But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. And for me, what happened in the woods that day is one of these.
“You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: The Six Rules of Maybe
“Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.”
Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer
“There is no Space or Time
Only intensity,
And tame things
Have no immensity”
Mina Loy (1882–1966) Futurist poet and actress
Source: The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto
Source: Naruto, Vol. 19: Successor
Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer
Source: Working for the Devil
“Sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Variant: Because sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.
Source: Lover Avenged
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
16 August 1925
Source: Enough Rope (1926)
“The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Daybreakers
“Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies. ~Carrow Graie”
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Demon from the Dark
“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset.”
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Source: Me of Little Faith
“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Some things come with their own punishments.”
Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things
Source: The God of Small Things
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Variant: Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.
“There's no such thing as a person who has to go away.”
Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
