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Thing Quotes (page 563)

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse. Dave Barry
Terry Prachett quote: "Progress just means bad things happen faster."
Progress just means bad things happen faster. Terry Prachett
Robertson Davies quote: "There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to..."
There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell. Robertson Davies
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor. Albert Ellis
...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things. Mary Oliver
Lady Bracknell: “He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and other things of that kind. Oscar Wilde
I ASKED no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled. Brazil? He twirled a button, Without a glance my way: Emily Dickinson
Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world. Michael Ondaatje
The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head. Ian Mcewan
Neil Gaiman quote: "They all do the same things. They may think their sins are..."
They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive. Neil Gaiman
Leo Tolstoy quote: " in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one..."
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. Leo Tolstoy
After that month in Cairo she was muted, read constantly, kept more to herself, as if something had occurred or she realized suddenly that wondrous thing about the human being, it can change. She did not have to remain a socialite who had married an adventurer. She was discovering herself. It was painful to watch, because Clifton could not see it, her self-education. Michael Ondaatje
Scott Adams quote: "How can something that doesn’t exist in physical form have..."
How can something that doesn’t exist in physical form have influence over the things that do? Scott Adams
You know the smallest thing can change your life, In the blink of an eye somethings happen by chance and you least expect it since were in course we can never plan into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you that's the journey of our lives. Our search for the light but, sometimes finding the light means you must pass through the deepest darkness. At least that's how it was for m Nicholas Sparks
At times I believe that my feet have been set upon a road which I shall go on following, and that slowly the centre of gravity of my being will shift over from the world of day, from the domain of organizing and regulating universal powers, into the world of Imagination. Already now I feel...that day is a space of time without meaning, and that it is with the coming of dusk, with the lighting of the first star and the first candle, that things will become what they really are, and will come... Isak Dinesen

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