Thing Quotes (page 642)

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• night
• fire
• nights

You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself-without a flame-E'en through the darkest night! Emily Dickinson

• love
• hurt
• earth

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life. Steven Spielberg

• lies
• look
• book

And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be. William Goldman

• life
• graduation
• art

What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• wishes
• wellness
• willful

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well. Epictetus

• love
• god
• small

It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. Charles Dickens

• great
• people
• greatness

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin. Charles M. Schulz

• little
• people
• manly

Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many! Tennessee Williams

• serious
• self
• work

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous. Margot Fonteyn

• slay
• death
• good

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil. George MacDonald

• friends
• losing friends
• father

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before ... Graham Chapman

• evening
• world
• fills

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know. Sherman Alexie

• love
• die
• manly

A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself. Clive Barker

• flower
• touching
• wills

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. Edna St. Vincent Millay

• time
• evil
• useless

but why do only unimportant things?" asked milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them.think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "if you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. you just won't have the time. for there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it... Norton Juster