Thing Quotes (page 632)

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• miracle
• giving
• she

But when she saw her eating with her hands, incapable of giving an answer that was not a miracle of simple-mindedness, the only thing that she lamented was the fact that the idiots in the family lived so long. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• people
• crying
• wellness

I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well Frances Hodgson Burnett

• thinking
• fall
• god

I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place. Sue Monk Kidd

• life
• lives
• damn thing

I don't know a damn thing. I don't know what it's about. The longer I live, the more mysterious life is. Artie Shaw

• bored
• love
• thoughts

As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent... Jon Ronson

• beautiful
• heart
• beauty

Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain? Khalil Gibran

• change
• things change
• changes

All things change; nothing perishes. Ovid

• god
• soul
• good

Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the soul what a good sun-block is to the skin during the heat of summer. Stephen King

• love
• tea
• cheese

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits. Emily Giffin

• accounting
• mistake
• kiss

you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account! Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's way is better than... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• best
• yours

You your best thing, Sethe. You are. Toni Morrison

• good
• girls
• beauty

The only thing a girl is good for is being a beautiful little fool. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• hurt
• little
• lifetime

I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets. Jennifer Weiner

• love
• change
• lovely

That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing. Jodi Picoult

• greatness
• choose
• elephant

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants Neil Gaiman