Quotes about thing

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“Why are you leaving me?
He wrote, I do not know how to live.
I do not know either but I am trying.
I do not know how to try.
There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me”

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”

“Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can’t follow what I’m saying? (Simi)”

“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”

“Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned….”

“Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?”

“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”

“Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike… except in California.”

“It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.”

“Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.”

“I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting.”

“The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.”

“I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.”

“Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.”

“No small thing, a bee's sting
When it enters the heart
Not so benign, the growing vine
When it tears stone apart”

“People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.”

“You, what are you? The brat of lucky parents who were related to a childless king. There is no such thing as royal blood. I believe we are what we make ourselves, and as such, you, Crown Princess, are nothing.”

“Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.”

“Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.”

“He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.”

“Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.”

“And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

“People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.”

“But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.”

“The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.”

“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more… exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.”

“There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.”

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it much.”

“I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful… vegetable!”

“You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.”

“I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness.”
“Some things last.”
I faced him. “Really? And just what would that be?”
“The things that matter.”

“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”

“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”

“At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do:
1.) break down, lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter.”

“There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.”

“As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.”

“You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.”

“I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.”

“To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.”

“God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.”

“This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.”

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”

“Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.”

“The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don’t think about them, because of the way you are.”

“That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.”

“People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.”

“Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.”

“Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.”

“I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"”

“You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.”

“To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.”

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“Now he had answers, but they weren't doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren't making things simpler or easier. They weren't helping.”

“He knew he was being overbearing as hell, but he couldn't help it. He was a bonded male. With his pregnant female. There were few things on the planet more aggressive or dangerous. And those bastards were called hurricanes and tornadoes.”

“You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.”

“When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.”

“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”

“Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me."

Lady Alice Rowhedge”

“To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.”

“No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.”

“Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.”

“The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.”

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence.”

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”

“There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.”

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”

“I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.”

“My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.”

“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”

“It's a scary thing; moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I think it's impossible to tell the good things from the bad things while they're happening.”

“What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy”

“I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.”

“Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return”

“One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?"
“Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.”

“I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have.”

“There are worse things than being mad.”

“She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cats tail- you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if youpart banshee. She didn't laugh."
-Magnus to Clary, pg.228-”

“Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better."

- John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)”

“Nothing is really lost or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form--no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing…
The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers
left from early fires,
… shall duly flame again”

“Record things in your heart. It’s more important than trying to show people what you’re experiencing.”

“The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.”

“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.”

“The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.”

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”

“I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.”

“You know the incredible thing about hearts is their unbelievable capacity for forgiveness. You’d be amazed what people will overlook when they love someone. (Acheron)”

“Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved.
Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.”

“Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”

“The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.”

“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?”

“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”

“There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them.”

“Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.”

“One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights […] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.”

“A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.”

“What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.”