Quotes about thing

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“The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.”

“Leaf! you are so big!
How can you change your
color, then just fall!

As if there were no
such thing as integrity!”

“we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.”

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

“If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”

“I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”

“Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.”

“Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different
story.”

“It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”

“Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.”

“Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.”

“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.”

“Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.”

“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”

“It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.”

“Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.”

“Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.”

“Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself.”

“This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.”

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”

“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.”

“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

“Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.”

“There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies”

“I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.”

“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.”

“Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

“One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things.”

“They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.”

“Love is such a magic thing. It can make you feel like your floating in the clouds without a trouble in the world.”

“I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?”

“Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.”

“A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”

“And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.”

“When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.”

“A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.”

“That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.”

“Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.”

“I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.”

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”

“Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things.”

“If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.”

“It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.”

“All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.”

“I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now."
Vronsky”

“I can tell we’re going to get along like Batman and the Joker. (Fang)
Just remember one thing, world. I’m the best friend you’ll ever have or the last enemy you’ll ever make. (Thorn)”

“Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination.”

“Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow, Korogi says. But that's one thing I'll never be able to outrun. Nobody can shake off their own shadow.”

“The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.”

“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.”

“I like all the things that make you monstrous.”

“Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.”

“There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.”

“If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood”

“A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.”

“One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”

“The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic…”

“… a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.”

“New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.”

“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”

“We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy.
"And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming," my dad says.
Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking inside them.
"Lamb roast. Am I invited?”

“Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.”

“That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”

“I've decided. I'm going to become a Shinigami. Become a Shinigami and change things. So that they'll end… without Rangiku having to cry.”

“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”

“In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”

“That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.”

“A moment might be a thousand different things.”

“Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.”

“It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the
human race would have died out generations earlier.”

“My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.”

“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”

“ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.”

“In this abundant earth no doubt
Is little room for things worn out:
Disdain them, break them, throw them by!
And if before the days grew rough
We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,
I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.”

“… it is presumptuous in me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best for me. I must leave it to the Lord, Who knows me, to lead me by the path which is best for me, so that in all things His will may be done.”

“Undeveloped, the whole thing, tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.”

“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…”

“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.”

“Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.”

“The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.”

“Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.”

“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”

“Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!”

“Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.”

“Everything hinges on how you look at things”

“And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them…”

“Life, he realized, was much like a song.
In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”

“The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.”

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”

“But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B. O. There's no hiding it if it's there.”

“The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.”

“There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.”

“No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis, just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.”

“"Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen."”

“She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.”

“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”

“But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.”

“Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.”