Thing Quotes (page 807)

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• time love
• real love
• look

I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. Chuck Palahniuk

• snow
• painting
• december

When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics.... Alice Hoffman

• world
• worlds
• doing

If nothing we do in this world matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do. Joss Whedon

• time
• mindfulness
• late night

I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind... Terry Prachett

• emotional
• things that matter
• emotions

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Joss Whedon

• morning
• eating
• willingly

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. Mark Twain

• humanity
• thinking
• friendship

The rock, when one came to think of it, was the utmost expression of human need; even mere feeling yearned for it; it was the highest comparison of loyalty in love and friendship. Christ Himself had used that comparison for the disciple to whom He gave the keys of His Church. And the Hebrews of the Old Testament, always being carried captive into foreign lands,--their rock was an idea of God, the only thing their conquerors could not take from them. Willa Cather

• sentimental
• patience
• personal

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil? a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons? never to truth. Tolerance applies to the erring, intolerance to the error? Architects are as intolerant about sand as foundations for skyscrapers as doctors are intolerant about germs in the laboratory. Tolerance does not apply to truth or principles. About these things we must be intolerant, and for this kind of... Fulton J. Sheen

• life
• learning
• sometimes

One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance. Nicholas Sparks

• things
• doings
• means

I mean, you’re such a supernormal guy, but you do such unnormal things. Haruki Murakami

• small
• sweat
• need

Two things you need to remember:1. Don't sweat the small stuff.2. It's ALL small stuff. Rush Limbaugh

• thinking you
• god
• white

He [Ryan] narrowed his eyes. "You know, Dr. Jones, I don't think you're pretending to be thick. You just don't get it. Yes, I want to live in this house. It's a good spot to raise children. Look at that, you went white as a ghost. God, that's one of the things I love about you. You're always so shocked when someone interrupts the logic. And I love you, Miranda, beyond sense. Nora Roberts

• brave
• bravely
• findings

Oh no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation. Agatha Christie

• science
• art
• beautiful

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science"- Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

• time
• him
• charming

Are you very much in love with him?' he asked. She did not answer for some time, but stood gazing at the landscape. 'I wish I knew' she said at last. He shook his head. -'Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. All ways end at the same point, my dear Gladys.' --'What is that?' -'Disillusion. Oscar Wilde