Thing Quotes (page 467)

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• nurse
• broken promises
• him

And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it? George Gissing

• imagination
• things
• imaginable

Imagination's an odd thing, it dries up;[Episode] W. Somerset Maugham

• work
• improvement
• which

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself. Stephen Covey

• powerful
• power
• real

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing James Clavell

• best
• running
• small

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrustive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion

• sky
• life
• history

The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing bybut you have speed far greater. You can climbback up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for hastenor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still--off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed. From one another once you are agreedthat life is... Robert Frost

• kids
• wishes
• answering

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers S. E. Hinton

• look
• carrying
• carrie

I often carry things to readso that I will not have to look atthe people. Charles Bukowski

• worthiness
• only
• dread

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• sad
• good
• believe

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• business
• busy
• tears

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.My business is to tear them apart. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• powerful
• power
• things

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing. Mario Puzo

• future
• dream
• past

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be. Sherman Alexie

• walk away
• enough
• she

Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?"She looked down at her lap "Yeah."Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me? Jodi Picoult

• god
• men
• animal

I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me. Samuel Beckett