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Thing Quotes (page 671)

Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true. Mark Twain
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope. Woody Allen
Sri Chinmoy quote: "Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly..."
Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy. Sri Chinmoy
Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness? Alan Moore
A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures? Ivan Turgenev
Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to watch television or go to the movies, nor will he eventually read Book-of-the-Month Club selections, because they are ludicrous and dull. As a young man, then, he will effectually be excluded from all of Madison Avenue and Hollywood and most of publishing, because what moves him or what he creates is quite irrelevant to what is going on: it is too fine. His... Paul Goodman
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go..."
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. Jeanette Winterson
Lloyd Alexander quote: "-I'm trying to make myself invisible.-That's an odd thing to..."
-I'm trying to make myself invisible.-That's an odd thing to attempt. Lloyd Alexander
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. Arthur Schopenhauer
Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everybody is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Oscar Wilde
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God. Henri Nouwen
Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. . . . There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world. David O. McKay
Henry David Thoreau quote: "There are many fine things we cannot say if we have to shout."
There are many fine things we cannot say if we have to shout. Henry David Thoreau
Sherman Alexie quote: "He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her,..."
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing. Sherman Alexie
Don’t you think there are two great things in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let’s have both if we can, but let’s be sure of having one or the other. E. M. Forster

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