Quotes about thing

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“Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.”

“It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.”

“And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.”

“So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”

“It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.”

“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”

“This thing about looking for someone less different… It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.”

“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

“But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk…”

“He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.”

“Funny always makes the bad things go away.”

“Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.”

“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”

“I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave.”

“The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.”

“Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.”

“When a demigod like me comes around, bad things happen. Really bad.-Leo

Maybe it's the other way around, Jason suggested. Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that's when they're needed most.”

“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”

“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.

My business is to tear them apart.”

“The true knowledge is notthe things, but in finding the connectionsthe things.”

“The best things in life are silly.”

“Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.'
Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?”

“There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.”

“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist… I am a person who does those things.”

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

“Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?”

“There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.”

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.”

“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”

“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot… for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

“The only thing I do know for sure is that if we both want to, we’ll find a way to make it work.”

“I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.”

“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?”

“The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”

“Denial is an ugly thing.”

“His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.”

“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

“Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.”

“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.”

“But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.”

“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.”

“It’s a very female thing, isn’t it, to take one boys’ night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy our marriage?”

“What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.”

“A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.”

“Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.”

“Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.”

“Things couldn't stay the same forever.”

“Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.”

“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”

“He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.”

“We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster.”

“Truly there is no such thing as finality.”

“We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.”

“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”

“Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.”

“I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative, with what is wrong…. Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?”

“That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.”

“Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.”

“Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.”

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”

“If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.”

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”

“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”

“One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.

(from 'Celestial Navigation')”

“The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.”

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

“Forgiveness is a powerful thing.”

“This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”

Juanita shrugs. “What's the difference?”

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”

“It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?”

“Three things never anger or you'll not live for long;
A wolf with cubs,
A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.”

“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”

“Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.”

“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”

“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.”

“A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not
that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like
to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be
extremely good at. It can be anything.”

“You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.”

“Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.”

“And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.”

“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”

“All things must pass.”

“Saying is one thing and doing is another.”

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

“An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.”

“The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.”

“For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.”

“It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.”

“An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.”

“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”

“There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.”