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Thing Quotes (page 730)

Sherman Alexie quote: "I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore..."
I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children Sherman Alexie
And what’s so bad about your being deprived of that?... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft through a life of luxury, ailing more in the mind than they ever are in the body. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When she's abandoned her moral center and teachings...when she's cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor...when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mewling, bucking, wanton whore for my enjoyment and pleasure.....enticing from within this feral lioness...growling and scratching and biting...taking everything I dish out to her.....at that moment she is never more beautiful to me. Marquis de Sade
How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later? Meg Cabot
But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant. Tennessee Williams
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me. Margaret Fuller
David Lynch quote: "I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them,..."
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened. David Lynch
I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life - good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn't, and shall never, understand. E. M. Forster
With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know. Hunter S. Thompson
Well, it probably won't live. They say the way her mama beat her she lucky to be alive herself. She be lucky if it don't live. Bound to be the ugliest thing walking. Can't help but be. Ought to be a law: two ugly people doubling up like that to make more ugly. Be better off in the ground. Well, I wouldn't worry none. It be a miracle if it live. Toni Morrison
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down. Eleanor Roosevelt
Henry James quote: "It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing..."
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games Henry James
Mark Twain quote: "The trouble with the world is not that people know too little;..."
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so. Mark Twain
this was something you had to work through on you own, Hason said. Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing. Oh, right, I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I reallly did. And if I hadn't? Now Jason brandished sonething he'd been holding behind hes back. It was a golf club. I figured Big Bertha here would drive theen away, he said Meg Cabot
In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy. Arthur C. Clarke

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