Thing Quotes (page 424)

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• eating
• play
• look

There is a thing that lives in us, eating our food, breathing our air, looking out through our eyes, and when it comes out to play nobody is immune; possessed, we turn murderously upon one another, thing-darkness in our eyes and real weapons in our hands, neighbour against thing-ridden neighbour, thing-driven cousin against cousin, brother-thing against brother-thing, thing-child against thing-child. Salman Rushdie

• time
• time is valuable
• things

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• kindness
• memorial
• different

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had one been different? George Orwell

• sad
• bad
• you me

Don't turn around.'Cuz you will get punched in the face. Don't make this worse. You've already gone and got me mad. It's too bad, I'm not sad It's casting over. Just one of those things you'll have to get over it. Avril Lavigne

• fire
• heart
• humanity

July 1936There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lover enters the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire. A love story is not about those who lose their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing - not the wisdom of sleep or the... Michael Ondaatje

• believe
• gift
• heavens

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. Anne Frank

• children
• world
• manly

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• beautiful
• aesthetic
• question

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Aldo Leopold

• love
• amazing
• look

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them. Louisa May Alcott

• depression
• thinking
• depress

The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed. Sylvia Plath

• sentence
• things
• sentences

There's only three things he mentions in a sentence -- a noun, a verb, and 9/11. Joe Biden

• sunday
• faith
• school

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith. Sue Monk Kidd

• reasons
• reason
• reasoning

There is a reason why all things are as they are. Bram Stoker

• thoughts
• love
• saying

Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when adventure was a possible thing for her. Particularly she remembered one who had for a time been her lover and who in the moment of his passion had cried out to her more than a hundred times, saying the same words madly over and over: "You dear! You dear! You lovely dear!" The words, she thought, expressed something she would have liked to have achieved in... Sherwood Anderson

• good
• sunrise
• everyday

When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises, Paulo Coelho