Quotes about thing

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“I did have regrets these past six months,” he told me quietly. “I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you  .  .  .”

“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”

“There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.”

“when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.”

“A daydreamer is prepared for most things.”

“Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.”

“It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.”

“i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.”

“I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4”

“We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.”

“Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can’t. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn’t perfect and neither are we.”

“I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.”

“You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself”

“A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.”

“Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.”

“This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.”

“One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.”

“All little creatures are beautiful… every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.”

“I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.”

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

“Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.”

“It's nice to have things to look forward to.”

“There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.”

“It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.”

“Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me”

“It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.”

“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”

“All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru”

“The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.”

“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”

“A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”

“Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught
you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody
knows what’s going on”

“it's good to have things done with
when they don't work
it's also good not to hate
or even forget
the person you've failed with.”

“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?”

“There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.”

“They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.”

“So I left my wonderfully intelligent family and soaked myself in the bath and considered drowning myself. Then I remembered I still had chocolate cake left over from yesterday so I came back up for air. Some things are worth living for.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.”

“Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.”

“Sometimes she thought the only things she had faith in were revenge and Julian.”

“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”

“To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.”

“The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.”

“Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.”

“Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not.”

“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”

“Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”

“You know, some things don't matter that much… Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, matters.”

“I love you above all things, even pie.”

“Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.”

“But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.”

“The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.”

“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.”

“Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.”

“You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the
perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy
little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the
titles.”

“Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.”

“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”

“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”

“Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.”

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”

“Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.”

“Mama--Mama--I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy…”

“When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

“How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”

“What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”

“they thought I had guts
they were wrong
I was only frightened of
more important things”

“Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.”

“In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love
And there may be many things we forget in the days to come,

But this will not be one of them.”

“People are more than one thing. Warlocks, no less. I would not even hesitate to say that Malcolm once did much good, before he did evil. It is one of the great lessons of growing up, learning that people can do both.”

“When we attach value to things that aren’t love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can’t love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless.”

“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”

“but isn't there always
one good thing
to look back on?

think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.”

“Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?”

“It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.”

“You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a little tired now;
Tired of things that break, and—
Just tired.
So am I.”

“Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.”

“Do your thing, Ms. Lane. you might be criminally young, but the night is not.”

“I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me.”

“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”

“There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.”

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. [laughter] The lady's not for turning.”

“those times i burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. we all burn things we love. i love my guitar”

“the masses are everywhere
they know how to do things:
they have sane and deadly angers
for sane and deadly
things.”

“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”

“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”

“People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.”

“The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.”

“The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.”

“In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!”

“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.”

“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.”

“Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.”

“It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them”

“Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

“Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.”

“It is a great thing to know your vices.”

“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.”