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Thing Quotes (page 373)

Mary Harris Jones quote: "A lady is the last thing on earth I want to be. Capitalists..."
A lady is the last thing on earth I want to be. Capitalists sidetrack the women into clubs and make ladies of them. Mary Harris Jones
Ernest Hemingway quote: "When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."
When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead. Ernest Hemingway
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing. Arthur Golden
Bernard Baruch quote: "Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running..."
Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running down people. Bernard Baruch
[...] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear. Jodi Picoult
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "There are things that can harm a lot more than physically."
There are things that can harm a lot more than physically. Laurell K. Hamilton
When you considered this world--people winched up and lowered down into the earth in steel cages and speed-fed through the tunnels, with doors cracking everywhere, and arctic winds mingling with dusty gaps of fire from the planet's core--it was hard to believe how delicate life was, how breakable things were. Martin Amis
One who transmuted things from formlessness and shapelessness into that-which-was-not-real, but without which the real would have no meaning Neil Gaiman
I'd like to meet the man who decided that people do or don't look Jewish. What the hell does that mean anyway? Is it the American penchant for pinning things down, catergorizing, for pigeonholing people? Whatever it is, it's wrong. Lauren Bacall
What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when he said he felt God’s presence? Steve supposed he could ask Pastor Harris directly, but he doubted that would do any good. How could anyone explain such a thing? It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private. Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to."
Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to. Nicholas Sparks
Charles Bukowski quote: "It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then..."
It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife. Charles Bukowski
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral..."
There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena Friedrich Nietzsche
Haruki Murakami quote: "Please remember: things are not what they seem."
Please remember: things are not what they seem. Haruki Murakami
There's no chance of their having a conscious glimpse of the truth as long as they refuse to disturb the things they take for granted and remain incapable of explaining them. For if your starting-point is unknown, and your end-point and intermediate stages are woven together out of unknown material, there may be coherence, but knowledge is completely out of the question. Plato

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