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Thing Quotes (page 750)

She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort. Alice Munro
She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with... Shirley Jackson
It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move. Ken Follet
Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? Mitch Albom
Frank Herbert quote: "If all those around you believe some particular thing, you..."
If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief. Frank Herbert
You see, Rodya, to my thinking, the great thing for getting on in the world is always to keep to the seasons; if you don't insist on having asparagus in January, you keep your money in your purse! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing. Quentin Crisp
These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere. ... The Unnamable Samuel Beckett
Ezra Pound quote: "When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall,..."
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. Ezra Pound
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. I am not a cultivated man, brother, but I've thought a lot about this. It's terrible what mysteries there are! Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve them as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water. Fyodor Dostoevsky
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government Thomas Paine
Ernest Hemingway quote: "I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things."
I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things. Ernest Hemingway
George Grosz quote: "How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity,..."
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing George Grosz
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis, just soft men. With..."
No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis, just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me. Laurell K. Hamilton
How could Reagan live in a WhiteHouse, which has a lot of rooms, and there be homelessness? And he's talking about helping. I don't believe that there is anyone that is going hungry in America simply by reason of denial or lack of ability to feed them. It is by people not knowing where or how to get this help. Why can't he take people off the street and put them in his White House? Then he'll have people from the streets to help him with his ideas. Not helpless! Homeless! Not helpless They... Tupac Shakur

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