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Thing Quotes (page 848)

Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight..."
In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..."If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds the world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make Himself visible, - I say, if you were to see Him today, you would see Him like a man in form - like yourself in all the person, image, and very form as a man. Joseph Smith, Jr.
Kate Moss quote: "I don't like doing [things] as myself...I like to be made into..."
I don't like doing [things] as myself...I like to be made into someone else. Kate Moss
Louise Bogan quote: "O remember. In your narrowing dark hours. That more things..."
O remember. In your narrowing dark hours. That more things move. Than blood in the heart. Louise Bogan
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. Bill Bryson
You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do. Jane Fonda
Shinichi Suzuki quote: "Live by looking for things to do for other people."
Live by looking for things to do for other people. Shinichi Suzuki
To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light. Coventry Patmore
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra... Chuck Palahniuk
...and I thought I might take him home and see how he works. It's really neat the way all those little bone things fit together, like a zipper. Anne Rivers Siddons
Pat Conroy quote: "I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that..."
I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing. Pat Conroy
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world. H. P. Lovecraft
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see... Thomas Friedman
Joan Baez quote: "The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization..."
The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. Joan Baez
Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery. Oscar Wilde

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