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Thing Quotes (page 437)

Michael Phelps quote: "That's it. Thats Bob's game. His drill...is really quite..."
That's it. Thats Bob's game. His drill...is really quite simple- make a habit of doing things other's weren't willing to do. Michael Phelps
and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry! Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself. Barbara Kingsolver
I wonder that all things seem to be from hell these days: dates, jobs, parties, weather…Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised heaving in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can’t hep but suffer in comparison. Doug Coupland
We divide the roles of mystic, doctor, therapist, artist, herbalist, naturalist, and storyteller into separate, often inimical professions. In most other societies, there was one word, one job assignment, for somebody who was all these things at once. Martha Beck
Suzanne Collins quote: "Knowing it and seeing it are two different things."
Knowing it and seeing it are two different things. Suzanne Collins
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
Joyce Maynard quote: "There was a way of looking at the world where practically..."
There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning. Joyce Maynard
Truman Capote quote: "A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick."..."
A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick." -Holly Golightly Truman Capote
The product of causes ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms, that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, that the whole temple of man's achievement must inevitably be... Bertrand Russell
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down. John Steinbeck
I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait—because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you … not ever … Judy Blume
Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden. Neil Gaiman
Lady, I have never been a hero, no Ryam Redwyne or Barristan the Bold. I've won no tourneys, no renown in war... but I was a knight once, and you have helped me remember what that meant. My life is a poor thing, but it is yours. George R. R. Martin
Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation. Wendell Berry

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