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Thing Quotes (page 454)

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this? Orhan Pamuk
Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person."That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said."All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it."But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace. Dorothy L. Sayers
The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ. John Piper
These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things. Elizabeth Goudge
Max Lucado quote: "God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time...."
God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes. Max Lucado
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible William S. Burroughs
L. M. Montgomery quote: "The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the..."
The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the multiplication table. L. M. Montgomery
Jane Austen quote: "she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before."
she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before. Jane Austen
Walter Benjamin quote: "All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing,..."
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. Walter Benjamin
Wallace Stevens quote: "A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order...."
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one. Wallace Stevens
It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten. Neil Gaiman
Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanations; monuments to themselves, in other words. In my view all teachers should be required to stop teaching at age thirty-two and not allowed to resume until they're sixty-five, so that they can live their lives, not teach them away - live lives full of ambiguity and transience and regret and... Richard Ford
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced... Ernest Hemingway
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King
To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing. Roland Barthes

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