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Thing Quotes (page 482)

That's one thing earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones. Kurt Vonnegut
Stephen King quote: "The most important things are the hardest to say, because..."
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. Stephen King
What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends. George MacDonald
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "To hope until hope creates from its very own wreck the thing..."
To hope until hope creates from its very own wreck the thing it contemplates. Percy Bysshe Shelley
I was ten years old. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue so...I ignored it for a few hours. When we got home I pulled my mom aside to ask if it was weird I was bleeding in my underpants. She was very sympathetic but also a little baffled. Her eyes said "Dummy didn't you read 'How Shall I Tell My Daughter ".... Tina Fey
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the... Robert Louis Stevenson
he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things. Henry David Thoreau
Toni Morrison quote: "Much handled things are always soft(27)."
Much handled things are always soft(27). Toni Morrison
Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother. Douglas Adams
It's so beautiful that it hurts me,' said Anne softly. 'Perfect things like that always did hurt me — I remember I called it "the queer ache" when I was a child. What is the reason that pain like this seems inseparable from perfection? Is it the pain of finality — when we realise that there can be nothing beyond but retrogression?' 'Perhaps,' said Owen dreamily, 'it is the prisoned infinite in us calling out to its kindred infinite as expressed in that visible perfection. L. M. Montgomery
You might just as well say,” added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in its sleep, “that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’! Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll quote: "I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I..."
I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I say—that’s the same thing, you know. Lewis Carroll
You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside. Miley Cyrus
John Adams quote: "Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations."
Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations. John Adams
Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do. Jonathan Edwards

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