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Thing Quotes (page 541)

Oscar Wilde quote: "Ah, on what little things does happiness depend."
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend. Oscar Wilde
There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for another, , observing how, from a gray, barren, humdrum moment in one’s life, there grows forth a marvelous rosy even that in reality had failed to flower. A mysterious thing, this branching structure of life: one senses in every past instant a parting of ways, a 'thus' and an 'otherwise', with innumerable dazzling zigzags bifurcating and... Vladimir Nabokov
Mitch Albom quote: "Everyone knows they're going to die but nobody believes it. If..."
Everyone knows they're going to die but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. Mitch Albom
C.-C.: My dear Arnold, we all hope that you have before you a distinguished political career. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ARNOLD: But supposing it doesn't come off? Women are incalculable. C.-C.: Nonsense! Men are romantic. A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self-indulgence. ARNOLD: I never know whether you're a humorist or a cynic,... W. Somerset Maugham
Paul Simon quote: "She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is..."
She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been Paul Simon
Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer. Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day. Alfred Lord Tennyson
But the modern critic not only permits a false practice: he absolutely prescribes false aims." A true allegory of the state of one's mind in a representative history," the poet is told, "is perhaps the highest thing that one can attempt in the way of poetry. Matthew Arnold
But if these unavoidable separations cause you a measure of pain, they also increase your longing for her, and perhaps that isn’t a bad thing, you decide, for you spend your days in the thrall of breathless anticipation, agitated and alert, counting the hours until you can see her and hold her again. Intense. That is the word you use to describe yourself now. You are intense. Your feelings are intense. Your life has become increasingly intense. Paul Auster
We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others. Lao Tzu
With coarse grain to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow: I still have joy in the midst of these things Confucius
In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meaness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine
And time would open up to us and we would be the teachers of one another. All the things that gave you happiness would give me happiness; and I would be the protector of your pain. My power would be your power. My strength the same. But you're dead inside to me, you're cold and beyond reach! Anne Rice
He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart. Mitch Albom
George R. R. Martin quote: "Men of honor will do things for their children that they would..."
Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves. George R. R. Martin
I had more positive views. Which made me feel that although I hadn't been taught to assimilate, a person perhaps assimilated without knowing it. I was doing it now. You did it alone, and not with other or for them. And assimilating possibly wasn't so hard and risky and didn't need to be permanent. This state of mind conferred another freedom on me and was like starting life over, or as I've already said, becoming someone else -- but someone who was not stalled but moving, which was the nature... Richard Ford

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