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Thing Quotes (page 51)

He had been contemptuous of those who wrecked. You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care. All right. Now he would not care for death. One thing he had always dreaded was the pain. He could stand pain as well as any man, until it went on too long, and wore him out, but here he had something that had hurt frightfully and just when he had felt it breaking him, the pain had stopped. Ernest Hemingway
Paulo Coelho quote: "Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and..."
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing. Paulo Coelho
Sue Grafton quote: "The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The..."
The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same. Sue Grafton
There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die? George Borrow
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago. Louis Armstrong
Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG! Mercedes Lackey
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. Jonathan Edwards
There are many people, particularly in sports, who think that success and excellence are the same thing. They are not the same thing. Excellence is something that is lasting and dependable and largely within a person's control. In contrast, success is perishable and is often outside our control. If you strive for excellence, you will probably be successful eventually. People who put excellence in the first place have the patience to end up with success. An additional burden for the victim of... Joe Paterno
It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp. Theodore Dreiser
Miyamoto Musashi quote: "from one thing, know ten thousand things"
from one thing, know ten thousand things Miyamoto Musashi
That it doesn’t strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc., shows how natural these things are to us. We do not notice that we see space perspectivally or that our visual field is in some sense blurred towards the edges. It doesn’t strike us and never can strike us because it is the way we perceive. We never give it a thought and it’s impossible we should, since there is nothing that contrasts with the form of our world. What I wanted to say... Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lao Tzu quote: "To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom,..."
To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao Tzu
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount Haruki Murakami
Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way. Tim Burton
As she turned left to the gateway, it occurred to her that swimming was only one of a very large number of things she had no idea what to do. Peter had been right to object to her ignorance. "It's not that I'm lazy," she explained to Waif as they arrived in what seemed to be stables, "or stupid. I've just not bothered to look round the edges of Mother's way of doing things, you see. Diana Wynne Jones

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