Thing Quotes (page 613)

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• son
• wishes
• world

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible. Harper Lee

• work
• bad
• saying

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing. Tom Waits

• real
• things
• knowing

When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• respect
• great
• greatness

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• people
• healing
• time

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change. John Steinbeck

• love
• universe
• universalism

The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE Deepak Chopra

• personal
• facing fear
• courage

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble. Aristotle

• time
• hope
• blessed

Because I know that time is time and place is always and only place and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place, I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed faces and renounce the voice because I cannot hope to turn again. T. S. Eliot

• gratitude
• our
• deserved

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthia Ozick

• lost
• than
• founded

Some things were better lost than found. Stephen King

• running
• knowledge
• look

We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the run itself, it smites us into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those starts of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the sun, until the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament where they may be seen evening or morning? The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. John Milton

• serious
• medical
• coffee

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles. Dave Barry

• different
• two different things
• knows

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things. Richard Russo

• change
• wednesday
• people

Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same. Neil Gaiman

• images
• pain
• believe

There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it--and almost all of us have one way or another--this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and... James Baldwin