Thing Quotes (page 791)

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• weird
• very
• weird thing

Shock is a very weird thing. Ozzy Osbourne

• wall
• plenty
• regards

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. Victor Hugo

• good
• sick
• winning

...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing. S. E. Hinton

• nature
• reflection
• true

it was the insoluble problems—the false leads and the cold cases—that reflected the true nature of things. Michael Chabon

• happy place
• sad
• together

I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True. David Foster Wallace

• success
• manly
• beard

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus. John Steinbeck

• smile her
• emotional
• him

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped form him - as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• reading
• friends
• old

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. Henry Ford

• lost
• kindness
• lost time

How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?"No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust. Haruki Murakami

• time
• evening
• times

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time. Stephen King

• spiritual
• mindfulness
• thoughts

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• life
• thinking
• life being hard

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Oscar Wilde

• rewarded
• quitting
• reward

You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things. Karl Marx

• amazing
• help
• school

Rashid did not give in. "Look how his hands move on the contols," he told her. "In those worlds left-handedness does not impede him. Amazingly, he is almost ambidextrous." Soraya snorted with annoyance. "Have you seen his handwriting?" she said. "Will his hedgehogs and plumbers help with that? Will his 'pisps' and 'wees' get him through school? Such names! They sound like going to the bathroom or what." Rashid began to smile placatingly. "The term is consoles," he began but Soraya turned on... Salman Rushdie

• self
• good
• people

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself Meg Cabot