Quotes about thing

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“… things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.”

“One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]”

“I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.”

“Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.”

“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again…”

“She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.”

“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

[Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories. ]”

“And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew.
Just go right along, you'll start happening too!”

“As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.”

“I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.”

“Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.”

“Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.”

“Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”

“Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.”

“Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.”

“Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.”

“Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want."
"What's that, Ritchie?"
His answer is simple.
"To want.”

“Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.”

“I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.”

“There are some things to die for but none to kill for.”

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”

“There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light.”

“Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.”

“In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.”

“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.”

“All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.”

“Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?”

“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”

“There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.”

“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?… the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.”

“Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.”

“An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”

“Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed you before I met you even.”

“The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break”

“All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.”

“A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.”

“Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. “Always,” Blay murmured. “Because family is an always kind of thing.”

“Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.”

“I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead.”

“It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.”

“The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.”

“I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.”

“Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.”

“He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. “You’re black.”
“I prefer canine-American,” said Total.”

“Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.”

“That’s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.”

“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.”

“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”

“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”

“It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.”

“To be a woman is a great adventure;
To drive men mad is a heroic thing.”

“Mortal, if there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years, it’s this: lies are curses you place on yourself.”

“… a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.”

“Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn’t realize that “test” is normally a bad thing.”

“Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”

“Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.”

“I understood finally that the thing I
should have feared most was not loss, but
never loving. The price for safety was the regret
I felt at this moment. And yet I would
have to live with it for the rest of my life”

“Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.”

“I can't say for sure, because I have no experience, but -- well, is this what family is like? The feeling that everyone's connected, that with one piece missing the whole thing's broken?”

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”

“This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.”

“And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.”

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”

“Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.”

“Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.”

“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”

“I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.”

“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

“There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.”

“Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.”

“I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.”

“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”

“Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.”

“Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. […] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.”

“We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these ’droids to say? “Talk about lame,” Fang muttered.”

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them”

“She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.”

“Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned”

“The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.”

“the important thing is not what we (look) like, but the role we play in our best friend's life.”

“In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.”

“When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. … I must be scientific.”

“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”

“Travel opens your mind as few other things do.”

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”

“Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things”

“When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.”

“Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.”

“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”

“Calvin: Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
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“Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.”

“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”

“This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion,
and it wasn’t wicked.
It was love, and it was divine.”

“Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.”

“The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.”