Quotes about thing

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“If I propose, you'll know it. For one thing, I'll be hyperventilating.”

“Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.”

“She was glad she didn’t know where it would take her. Because sometimes the only thing that
got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.

[Ehlena]”

“It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.”

“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.”

“The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.”

“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”

“Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther… you've come to the end of things…”

“Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.”

“I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.”

“I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.”

“In the flesh,” Maharet said. “In the flesh all wisdom begins. Beware the thing that has no flesh. Beware the gods, beware the, beware the devil.”

“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things… as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.”

“I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.”

“There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is”

“But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?”

“Tell me of a happy memory, Zarek. One thing in your life that was good. (Astrid)
You. (Zarek)”

“In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.”

“It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.”

“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North”

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”

“Who are you?" because even now, she couldn't let her questions go. "What are you?"
That face that wasn't a face smiled. It was the most terrible thing she'd ever see, ever. "Magnus" he said. "I'm the end.”

“We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions… this especially applies to what we used to call bad things… the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.”

“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”

“the only thing you need to
do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do
know the answer”

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

“Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.”

“She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.”

“Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.”

“The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.”

“By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.”

“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”

“When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence.”

“I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.”

“These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.”

“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.”

“You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.”

“My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.”

“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.”

“So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.”

“She glared at him. "You're doing it again."
"What?"
"That thing that irritates me."
"Smiling?"
"Yes. That.”

“They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.”

“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”

“Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”

“Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.”

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. For some people, it's love. Others, money or alcohol. Mine was even worse: calculus.”

“Watching them, I thought again of how 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.”

“It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.”

“I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think, "How gay 'twould be
To hang me from a flowering tree.”

“Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.”

“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”

“Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.”

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

“And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.”

“One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.”

“They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.”

“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.”

“You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.”

“Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.”

“There is no Space or Time
Only intensity,
And tame things
Have no immensity”

“Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note
to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a
watch or necklace.)”

“You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.”

“You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.”

“In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.”

“making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”

“Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.”

“The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is… HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.”

“And all the winds go sighing,
For sweet things dying”

“He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was really just a screen, more empty than solid, his emotions blowing through him, only angry catching and holding.”

“Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.”

“Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?”

“Sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out”

“Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.”

“Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”

“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”

“The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker”

“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”

“violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.”

“Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies. ~Carrow Graie”

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief… Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”

“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”

“So you are dying for love, then," Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears.
'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.”

“That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset.”

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”

“Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year.”

“It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.”

“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“Some things come with their own punishments.”

“Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.”

“No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.”

“Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, we will discuss why some things cannot be discussed.”

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”

“Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.”

“This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive”

“There's no such thing as a person who has to go away.”

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.”

“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

“Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.”