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Thing Quotes (page 318)

But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream. Kinky Friedman
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do. Andy Rooney
I remember him standing under a streetlamp. 'Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further thing, Sal, but now I am parenthetically continuing with a new thought and by the time we reach the next I'll return to the original subject, agreed?' I certainly agreed. Jack Kerouac
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. J. D. Salinger
She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it. Terry Prachett
...the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you. Mitch Albom
George Santayana quote: "why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory?..."
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together. George Santayana
For Berry, you just be there, Whit. Be the one person in the wide green world she doesn't have to explain it to, because you were there and saw it all for yourself. Hand her a clean cloth if she cries or bleeds, and some warm thing for the pain that doubles her over. The time to hold her will come. This day isn't over yet. Lois McMaster Bujold
Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of a philosophical character; we act on them in private life, in politics, in our work, and in every other sphere of our lives -- but while some of these assumptions are no doubt true, it is likely, that more are false and some are harmful. So the critical examination of our presuppositions -- which is a philosophical activity -- is morally as well as... Karl Popper
Virginia Woolf quote: "Intellectual freedom depends upon material things."
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Virginia Woolf
It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from. C. S. Lewis
Sinclair Lewis quote: "He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness."
He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness. Sinclair Lewis
Lauryn Hill quote: "Tomorrow is always another day to make things right."
Tomorrow is always another day to make things right. Lauryn Hill
You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head. You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. You cannot fall out of grace, nor can it be taken from you. You can ignore it. You can hold beliefs that blind you to its existence. You will still be graced but unable to perceive you own uniqueness and integrity, and blind... Jane Roberts
Orson Scott Card quote: "Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself..."
Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you Orson Scott Card

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