Quotes about thing

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“When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.”

“Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.”

“Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,…”

“Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?"
"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking
mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.”

“Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.”

“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”

“I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.”

“I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”

“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”

“I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.”

“There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.”

“Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable. Kolo?"
-Brandon Sanderson
(Elantris)”

“Happiness does not come from consumption of things.”

“Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them….”

“It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells… to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.”

“Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight.”

“Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?”

“There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.”

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.”

“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”

“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.”

“Of all the things trauma takes away from us, the worst is our willingness, or even our ability, to be vulnerable. There's a reclaiming that has to happen.”

“If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.”

“Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense.

Rutabaga.”

“Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.”

“When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.”

“At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.”

“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.”

“The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far… The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.”

“The thing I fear most is fear.”

“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

“That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.”

“In love there are two things - bodies and words.”

“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.”

“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”

“Tell me he’s not talking to Brandon,” Claire said.
“Um… Ok. He’s not talking to Brandon.”
“You’re lying.”
“Yeah. He’s talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He’s not as stupid as he looks, mostly.”

“They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.”

“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”

“He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things.”

“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.”

“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”

“We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings
― Sue Monk Kidd”

“But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.
-Jing-mei”

“That's what people do. Kill the things they're afraid of.”

“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.”

“Sometimes you suffer for the things that are important to you.”

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”

“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”

“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole---
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.”

“Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?”

“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”

“One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.”

“Dreams can be dangerous things.”

“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”

“A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.”

“Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.”

“A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.”

“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.”

“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

“There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.”

“It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.”

“To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.”

“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for”

“There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres.”

“Being with you is the best thing that's ever happened to me, the one perfect decision I've made in a lifetime of fumbling and poor judgment. I'd go through it all again to be by your side. Never doubt that. Never doubt how I feel about you.”

“All things are possible until they are proven impossible.”

“I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.”

“There is no such thing as a good tax.”

“Things are not always what they seem.”
Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.

“Be mild, and cleave to gentle things,
thy glory and thy happiness be there.”

“Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.”

“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”

“Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.”

“… there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”

“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”

“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.”

“She said you were probably plastic and Uncle Kevin said he’d give you a feel and let her know and then Uncle Joe punched him in the shoulder and said the only thing he’d feel is his A-S-S getting kicked if he tried.”

“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”

“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn’t matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.”

“Let me ask you something,” Simon said. “Do you find me fascinating to be around?”
“What was that?” Jace said. “Sorry, I think I fell asleep for a moment. Do, continue with
whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying.”

“Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.”

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.”

“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”

“Little things please little minds.”

“What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!”

“I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly."
~Harry Dresden”

“No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.”

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”

“Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”

“In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.”

“I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.”

“And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.”

“having too many ideas is not always a good thing.”

“you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you're young, whatever life you wear

it will become you; and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.”

“One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.”

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”