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Going Quotes (page 274)

Rumi quote: "Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadowover..."
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadowover the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. Rumi
His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what? Steve Martin
I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee
Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish. Lenny Bruce
What on earth did you want with an early Christian sarcophagus, Elliot?"To put myself in it, my dear fellow. It was of very good design, and I thought it would balance the font on the other side of the entrance, but those early Christians were stumpy little fellows and I shouldn't have fitted in. I wasn't going to lie there till the Last Trump with my knees doubled up to my chin like a foetus. Most uncomfortable. W. Somerset Maugham
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir,..."
Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees! Barbara Kingsolver
They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live. Suzanne Collins
Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return. Suzanne Collins
Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life. Virginia Woolf
I wonder if it won't be the same with the children as it has been with us. No matter how long each one of them lives, won't their lives feel to them unfinished like ours, only just beginning? I wonder how far they will go. And then their children will grow up and it will be the same with them. Unfinished lives. Oh, dearie, what children all of us are. Ernest Poole
Demi Lovato quote: "Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won...."
Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo Demi Lovato
I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president. James Patterson
Suzanne Collins quote: "That was the one thing I had going for me. Taking care of your..."
That was the one thing I had going for me. Taking care of your family. Suzanne Collins
You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process. Kazuo Ishiguro
Alice Hoffman quote: "That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you..."
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. Alice Hoffman

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