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Thing Quotes (page 653)

Suzanne Collins quote: "To me, there's no point in talking about things that might..."
To me, there's no point in talking about things that might have been. Suzanne Collins
William Shakespeare quote: "Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things...."
Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2] William Shakespeare
I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up inside the window, blowing in as dust across the floor. Margaret Atwood
I adore good food as I adore all the other pleasant things of life, and because I have that gift I am able to look upon the future with equanimity? W. Somerset Maugham
Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it, you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it. There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous, a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe, a time for being in danger. The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them... Lao Tzu
I'm told my father cemented a number of profitable deals in this room." Alan eased down beside her. Shelby opened her eyes to slits. "I imagine he did. By the time he was through, he could've reduced most normally built men to puddbles." Idly the trailed a fingertip down Alan's thigh. "Do you ever use saunas for vital government intrigue, Senator?"I'm inclined to think of other things in small hot rooms." Bending, he brushed his lips over her bare shoudler-the touch of a tongue, the quick... Nora Roberts
When sight ceases, it is the time for faith to work. The greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith. As long as human possibilities for success remain, faith does not accomplish things as easily as when all natural prospects fail. George Muller
But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose? David Foster Wallace
Theodore White quote: "In politics, the things that do not happen are frequently as..."
In politics, the things that do not happen are frequently as significant as those that do. Theodore White
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the..."
I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jack Kerouac quote: "This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not."
This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not. Jack Kerouac
Homer was wrong," wrote Heracleitus of Ephesus. "Homer was wrong in saying: 'Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!' He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for if his prayer were heard, all things would pass away." These are the words on which the superhumanists should meditate. Aspiring toward a consistent perfection, they are aspiring toward annihilation. The Hindus had the wit to see and the courage to proclaim the fact; Nirvana, the goal... Aldous Huxley
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension. Vaclav Havel
Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating."Park benches are irritating to you in some moods."Depends on whether or not I want to sit down. Nora Roberts
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. Edith Wharton

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