Quotes about thing

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“Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.”

“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”

“It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.”

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”

“In this whole screwed up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," He whispered. "I love you, Claire" said Shane.”

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”

“To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

“Fear, what a strange thing fear was…”

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

“You've influenced the world not because you wanted to hug it and cuddle it and call it sweet thing, but because one day you wanted to beat the crap out of somebody but you didn't. You made a painting instead.”

“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”

“I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.”

“Maybe it's information the whitecoats never wanted anyone to figure out.' Fang said in the hollow-y voice he used sometimes when things got unusually weird- as opposed to regular weird.”

“Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.”

“There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.”

“It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.”

“That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.”

“It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?”

“The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.”

“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”

“What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked one final time. "She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: a Gallagher Girl is”

“Clary’s eyes widened. She wondered if she was about to be broken up with. If so, she would have a thing or two to say to Jace about his timing, after she drowned him in the lake.”

“People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.”

“Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.”

“May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.”

“Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.”

“Oh the things you can find
If you don't stay behind!”

“As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.”

“One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.”

“My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!”

“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”

“Yeah, well, it’s what happens when we spoil the things we love. They don’t always understand the boundaries and their ridiculous wants can get us killed if we’re not careful. (Jaden)”

“But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.”

“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”

“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”

“Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.”

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”

“Writing is the thing that props me up.”

“Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.”

“I mumble hocus-pocus and the next thing you know, I’m a cat. (Ravyn)
I suppose it’s a step up. The last guy I had in my house could only turn into a beer-drinking pig. (Susan)”

“Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.”

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.”

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”

“The street finds its own uses for things.”

“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”

“You used nunchucks on a moose?"
Wolfe got a haunted look in his eyes. "I used all sorts of things on that bastard.”

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”

“Maybe we’ll admit this thing we have is perfect, not worth messing around with. And stay together forever. If you’re interested, that is.”
She glanced away. “I could think about that.”
He buried his face in her neck. “Think fast”

“You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.”

“It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love.”

“… when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.”

“People learned to live with the
most unimaginable things.”

“There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.”

“Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

“If our faith is strong, we’ll go to heaven, and we’ll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us.”

“Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.”

“I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.”

“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”

“My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone…. The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”

“Trust others to do the right thing. If you can't do that, trust yourself to survive what happens.”

“Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.”

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”

“I want to build some thing permanent.”

“To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.”

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.”

“Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile--true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.”

“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching — even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

“There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character… Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.”

“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”

“Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.”

“The next thing I knew I was listening to five people shouting. What was that all about, anyway?”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

“Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.”

“It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.”

“Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”

“Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.”

“The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.”

“Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."

I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.”

“if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier;”

“It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.”

“She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.”

“Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me.”

“Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.”

“Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.”

“People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.”

“Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.”

“Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson”

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”

“Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.”

“The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”

“If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.”

“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”

“Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.”

“If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.”

“The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.”