Quotes about thing

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“It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”

“Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?”

“There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.”

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”

“Every thing in this world exist to wear you down”

“Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.”

“The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.”

“Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.”

“Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.”

“I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”

“The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.”

“Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”

“The present is the only things that has no end.”

“Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?”

“Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.”

“You wanted to think of yourself as someone who did these kinds of things.
                 You wanted to be in love
                             and he happened to get in the way.”

“Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.”

“We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.”

“there is only one thing on my body that's ten inches long, and if you'll recall, the scar is no' it.”

“There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.”

“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”

“Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.”

“I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.”

“God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I’m so far behind, I’ll never die.”

“To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.”

“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”

“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.”

“when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

“It's always the people who don't want things who get them.”

“as I said, I believe in fate. Things happen as they are meant to be. We just have to recognize our destiny.”

“How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.”

“There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.”

“I love to do the things the censors won't pass.”

“Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can means lots of different things. It can mean 'I want to do sex with you' and it can also mean 'I think what you just said was very stupid.”

“When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.”

“That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.”

“Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.”

“Three things see no end-
A flower blighted ere it bloomed,
A message that was wasted,
And a journey that was doomed.”

“People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.”

“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.”

“Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane”

“That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.”

“Why is it, she wondered now, that boys get to do things and be things and girls only get to watch?”

“If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.”

“The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.”

“I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it.”

“The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.”

“The only thing that separates us from the animals… is we have pornography.”

“Houses are full of things that gather dust”

“I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”

“There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.”

“… I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.”

“It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.”

“You’re presumptuous and arrogant and a whole lot of other things if you think I’ve changed my mind.”
“You see, that’s just it.” There he was again, moving into my space. “I think you like the ‘other things.”

“It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us”

“the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.”

“I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.”

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”

“The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.”

“But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.”

“It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.”

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”

“I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.”

“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”

“That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.”

“Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.”

“You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.”

“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”

“This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.”

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

“I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.”

“If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,
counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will
give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.”

“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”

“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader…”

“All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.”

“I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.”

“Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or…"
"Or we'll die?" I guessed.
"Well… after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes."
"Let's avoid the swords," I decided.”

“One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.”

“I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.”

“He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.”

“It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you…”

“So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.”

“Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.”

“Holding on to things only breaks your heart.”

“It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.”

“Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?”

“You're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.”

“Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed.”

“They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.”

“Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.
It hasn’t happened this morning, either.”

“I suppose you could call me… Soot," said the thing. "Yes… Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name."
"Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?"
"Boredom," said Soot.”

“There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.”

“There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'….”

“Remember, this thing is small. It's not like the wolfships. It'll ride over the waves, not crash through them. So we're safe as houses."
He wasn't sure about the last two statements, but they seemed logical to him.”

“She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.”

“I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.”

“I know what a park bench is and the landlord's knock. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

“Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.”