Quotes about thing

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“Dear Forgiveness, you know that recently
we have had our difficulties and there are many things
I want to ask you.”

“Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.”

“I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you
to know everything but I don't want to have
to tell you. Because there are some things I
don't want to say out loud.”

“I found that things weren't going well upstairs.
Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.”

“The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing…' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.”

“There's no such thing as. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.”

“We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.”

“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”

“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.”

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”

“But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking toward
the sky, knowing
there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe,
by the way, that
miracles can happen.”

“There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.”

“The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part - and that only because you're pretty enough to be one.”

“It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.”

“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”

“As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things”

“Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?”

“She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.”

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”

“I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time…”

“Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.”

“You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.”

“Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood… blood… blood… blood…”

“It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.”

“Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.”

“I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.”

“There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”

“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”

“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”

“What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”

“This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.”

“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.”

“You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.”

“I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.”

“Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are.”

“I'd have to kill Dimitri for real this time and lose any chance I might have to bring back my prince. Damn. It's a good thing I work well under pressure.”

“I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.”

“Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.”

“Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while. Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal”

“That was the one thing I had going for me. Taking care of your family.”

“He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.”

“Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty… It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.”

“But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.”

“Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.”

“time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.”

“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”

“I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.”

“You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.”

“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.”

“God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.”

“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”

“At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.”

“That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on”

“Do all things with love.”

“Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.”

“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help […] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”

“The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.”

“The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.”

“The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts"….. Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind.”

“I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.”

“Man, it was a good thing he fought like a nasty bastard or he might have been taken for a nancy.”

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

“Sometimes the best things look the strangest.”

“Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,…. Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.”

“sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having”

“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.”

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”

“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”

“You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead”

“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”

“If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”

“Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?”

“I'm going to love you so good and so long you're gonna be convinced no earthly thing could have brought us together”

“Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.”

“In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away… past, present, and future together.”

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“And I also know that loving someone—even when it’s scary, even when there are consequences—is never the wrong thing to do.”

“Think of every single thing that we 'have to' do to get through a day as something that we 'get to' do… before our turn is over.

Everything is a gift.”

“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”

“Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone.
… they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong'
they hurt the ones closest to their hearts,
and we let the most foolish things tear us apart”

“The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.”

“[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life. ]”

“There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.”

“I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.”

“Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.”

“This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore”

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”

“Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.”

“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”

“The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.”

“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”

“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.”

“Because it gives him and excuse to be around her--without making it look like he gave in first. That way, he can still seem manly."

"That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

"Guys do ridiculous things for love.”

“English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what.”

“Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.”

“When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.”

“I need wings," said Total, still sniffling. "I need mywings. Then things like that wouldn't happen."
Yeah, that was all I needed. Atalking mutant dog.”