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Thing Quotes (page 238)

So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement. Michael Ondaatje
John Denver quote: "so many things I long for have so often been denied"
so many things I long for have so often been denied John Denver
George R. R. Martin quote: "I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel..."
I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad? George R. R. Martin
Rumi quote: "Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces."
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces. Rumi
Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude. Herman Melville
Haruki Murakami quote: "The things we try our hardest not to lose, we really just put..."
The things we try our hardest not to lose, we really just put deep abysses in the spaces between them. Haruki Murakami
Our opinions were not honestly come by. We simply found ourselves in contact with a certain current of ideas and plunged into it because it seemed modern and successful. At College, you know, we just started automatically writing the kind of essays that got good marks and saying the kind of things that won applause. When, in our whole lives, did we honestly face, in solitude, the one question on which all turned: whether after all the Supernatural might not in fact occur? When did we put up... C. S. Lewis
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch..."
One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. P. G. Wodehouse
Not the criticism of individual contemporaries will decide the truth or falsity of these discoveries, but future generations. There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not find them true, but tomorrow they may be. So every man whose fate it is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers. Carl Jung
Perhaps if you win this one I can put a word in for you. You know, extra carrots and that sort of thing, a bit of molasses in the evening. A bigger brass plaque for your box at home."That's bribery," Keeley murmured. Brian turned, his eyes going warm. "That's bargaining," he corrected. "But if I can interest you in a bribe," he began and opened the box door intending to snatch Keeley inside for a much anticipated welcome back kiss. He nearly stepped over Mo. "Sorry. Didn't see you there."I'm... Nora Roberts
Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock?"She held up a hand. Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free."I'm already annoyed. It won't take much to push me to furious. Nora Roberts
For in this worldof ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more completely, leaving behind, still fewer traces of itself, than beauty: namely, grief. Marcel Proust
We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important... Morrie Schwartz
James Joyce quote: "(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart..."
(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop. James Joyce
I did pick up a few tolerably ripe and breezy expressions out in France. All through my military career there was something about me - some subtle magnetism, don't you know, and that sort of thing - that seemed to make Colonels and blighters of that sort rather inventive. I sort of inspired them, don't you know. P. G. Wodehouse

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