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Thing Quotes (page 595)

She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow. Cormac McCarthy
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good. Stephen Covey
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Samuel Beckett quote: "From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch..."
From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch them out of sight, no, I can't do it. Samuel Beckett
The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about. A. A. Milne
Bertrand Russell quote: "the world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our..."
the world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to get sharper Bertrand Russell
You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you’re going to be happy, then your’re going to have a good attitude, then you’re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He’ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life. Joel Osteen
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this. Chuck Palahniuk
Norman Maclean quote: "The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case..."
The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience. Norman Maclean
If you were anyone else, I'd tell you it's unbecoming to gloat."But you'd tell me..."That even gloating becomes you. It's a sad thing, an intelligent woman in love. Emma Bull
George Oppen is a tough old bird. If you've never seen what [he] sees, it's because you haven't sat still long enough and looked as he has. The things he sees feel like the gnarled bark of a tree. The tree is there too. You can put your weight against it. It won't give. Carl Rakosi
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. Oprah Winfrey
Haruki Murakami quote: "Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this..."
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Haruki Murakami
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet..."
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them. Ursula K. Le Guin

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