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Thing Quotes (page 262)

Full many a gem of purest ray serene. The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. And waste its sweetness on the desert air"A good many flowers bloom and fade away in deserted places, seen by no one. In its context in Thomas Gray's "Elegy" it is actually a metaphor for common folk who do heroic things that are never reported in the news or recorded in history. Like a precious stone unmined at the bottom of the ocean or a beautiful flower blooming in... Thomas Gray
I often felt we lived in a lighted house of glass, and that any moment some thin-lipped parchment face would peer through a carelessly unshaded window to obtain a free glimpse of things that the most jaded voyeur would have paid a small fortune to watch. Vladimir Nabokov
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room. Cheryl Strayed
Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in - particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth. Kazuo Ishiguro
Stephenie Meyer quote: "The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like..."
The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like sometimes, you can’t see it, but it never really goes away. Stephenie Meyer
Oscar Wilde quote: "We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only..."
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. Oscar Wilde
Kenny Chesney quote: "had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave,..."
had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young. Kenny Chesney
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified. Evelyn Waugh
Neil Gaiman quote: "I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on..."
I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. Neil Gaiman
They run amuck; I let them. Pride of lions in the yard. Stare and they burn a hole in your retina. A common flower, a weed that no one sees, yes. But for us, a noble thing, the dandelion. Ray Bradbury
In general, I weathered even the worst sermons pretty well. They had the great virtue of causing my mind to wander. Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons. Or I would look out the windows. In winter, when the windows were closed, the church seemed to admit the light strictly on its own terms, as if uneasy about the frank sunshine of this benighted world. In summer, when the sashes were raised, I watched with a great, eager pleasure the town and the... Wendell Berry
A Time For Prayer"In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted."-Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling
Toni Morrison quote: "You your own best thing, Sethe. You are."
You your own best thing, Sethe. You are. Toni Morrison
Jodi Picoult quote: "But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only..."
But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is suppose to look like Jodi Picoult
The prime minister's final flourish, Honour your country, for the eyes of the country are upon you, complete with drumrolls and bungle blasts, unearthed from the attics of the mustiest of nationalistic rhetoric, was ruined by a Good night that rang entirely false, but then that is the great thing about ordinary words, they are incapable of deceit. Jose Saramago

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