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Thing Quotes (page 843)

E. L. Konigsburg quote: "Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's..."
Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find. E. L. Konigsburg
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing. Margaret Atwood
James Patterson quote: "You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for..."
You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music. James Patterson
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. Bertolt Brecht
Stephen King quote: "If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a..."
If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were. Stephen King
Nicholas Sparks quote: "In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things..."
In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me. Nicholas Sparks
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs. Carl Sagan
It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe Ray Bradbury
It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world. John Ruskin
Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87. Erica Jong
I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy. Gilbert K. Chesterton
People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another. Mitch Albom
Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess Pea would prove, in time, to be all of these things: powerful, wonderful, and ridiculous. Kate DiCamillo
Alice Hoffman quote: "He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid,..."
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one. Alice Hoffman
All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing. Leo Tolstoy

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