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Thing Quotes (page 800)

If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing - flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it. High-shouldered to a degree little short of malformation, slender and adroit of limb and frame, his eyes close-set and the colour of dried blood, he is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best... Mervyn Peake
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do. C. S. Lewis
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish. Angela Carter
Jock put his shoulder to the framework and the whole thing crumbled inward with a crash of glass. "Rotten as touch-wood," he said. "This place would never stand a siege. John Buchan
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain..."
It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future. Barbara Kingsolver
Louis L'Amour quote: "The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too..."
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for. Louis L'Amour
Bertie," he said, "I want your advice."Carry on."At least, not your advice, because that wouldn't be much good to anybody. I mean, you're a pretty consummate old [prat], aren't you? Not that I want to hurt your feelings, of course."No, no, I see that."What I wish you to do is put the whole thing to that fellow Jeeves of yours, and see what he suggests. P. G. Wodehouse
Benjamin Franklin quote: "You have on hand those things that you need if you have but..."
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them. Benjamin Franklin
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your..."
How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things? Rainer Maria Rilke
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all."
To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. Soren Kierkegaard
Jack Kerouac quote: "But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully..."
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. Jack Kerouac
Let's skip [Mobile Infantry] tradition for a moment. Can you think of anything sillier than being fired out of a spaceship with nothing but mayhem and sudden death at the other end? However, if someone must do this idiotic stunt, do you know a surer way to keep a man keyed up to the point where he is willing than by keeping him constantly reminded that the only good reason why men fight is a living, breathing reality?"In a mixed ship [men and women] the last thing a trooper hears before a... Robert A. Heinlein
You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thing so complete has its own beauty. I shall not try to emphasize the point. I am only explaining why I was dissatisfied then and have been ever since. I speak of that only that you may understand why I have been impelled to try to tell the simple story over again. Sherwood Anderson
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean. Oscar Wilde
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous... F. Scott Fitzgerald

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