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Thing Quotes (page 512)

It's a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean. Not lawtype honest--I'd rob a grave, I'd steal two-bits off a dead man's eyes if I thought it would contribute to the day's enjoyment--but unto-thyself-type honest. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to. Truman Capote
Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us... Rene Descartes
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Benjamin Jowett quote: "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit..."
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them Benjamin Jowett
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn
I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra. J. D. Salinger
William Shakespeare quote: "Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office..."
Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. William Shakespeare
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing. David Foster Wallace
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. Milan Kundera
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. Oprah Winfrey
Donald Trump quote: "When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is..."
When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it--fight back! Donald Trump
Leo Tolstoy quote: "I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be..."
I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore. Leo Tolstoy
Ezra Pound quote: "All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry..."
All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days. Ezra Pound
I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper. Henry James
Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing. Stephen King

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