Thing Quotes (page 784)

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• kids
• bad
• greatness

The sexiest thing about men is how they are with kids... If they are great with kids they are real men ... selfless, powerful, comforting ... Too bad so many men suck! Pamela Anderson

• personal
• nature
• personality

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book. R. D. Laing

• dream
• help
• helpful

All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. Elias Canetti

• dark
• feeling
• sleep

I am terrified by this dark thing. That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Sylvia Plath

• perfect
• them
• make

...it didn't make things perfect, but it made them better. Stephenie Meyer

• nature
• single
• world

When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir

• look
• new
• new look

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things. Henry Miller

• doubt
• crying
• love

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope. George MacDonald

• look
• doing
• overlooking

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. Alan Watts

• green
• new
• japanese

There was nothing green left; artillery had denuded and scarred every inch of ground. Tiny flares glowed and disappeared. Shrapnel burst with bluish white puffs. Jets of flamethrowers flickered and here and there new explosions stirred up the rubble. While I watched, an American observation plane droned over the Japanese lines, spotting targets for the U.S. warships lying offshore. Suddenly the little plane was hit by flak and disintegrated. The carnage below continued without... William Manchester

• thoughts
• avoiding
• vision

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand. Mary McCarthy

• life
• reality
• deepest

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• motivational
• daily
• die

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily... Paulo Coelho

• feeling
• thinking
• writing

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet. Toni Morrison

• saying
• true
• wellness

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. Neil Gaiman