Thing Quotes (page 860)

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• life
• to live
• experience

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life. Paulo Coelho

• dream
• universe
• struggle

Graduates leave university and can't find a job. Old people reach retirement and have almost nothing to live on. Grown-ups have no time to dream, struggling from nine to five to support their families and pay for their children's education, always bumping up against the thing we all know as "harsh reality. Paulo Coelho

• best
• thinking
• people

I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved. Terry Prachett

• free
• night
• sometimes

When one's married for so long, always walking on four feet and alwaysbreathing double breaths and thinking every thought twice through andthe time between the main things is packed double full with minordetails - then, sometimes, naturally, one yearns like an arrow for onewhole space thin as air. And you start up in the night, terrified byyour own breathing, which had just been going along as evenly withoutyou. But you don't rise up free - or even really as far as your knees- not once. You... Robert Musil

• life
• insult
• insulting

My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but only for myself, I knew that before, but only now do I see...Oh, where are those friends whom I have insulted with my friendship all my life? And everyone, everyone! Savez-vous, perhaps I'm lying now; certainly I'm also lying now. The worst of it is that I believe myself when I lie. The most difficult thing in life is to live and not lie...and...and not believe one's own lie, yes,... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• confidence
• justice
• disrespect

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight) David Baldacci

• wine
• make
• possible thing

Wine makes all things possible."~The Mystery Knight George R. R. Martin

• disease
• danger
• without

It’s an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease. George Eliot

• thinking
• magic
• pretty

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice. Neil Gaiman

• learning
• gone
• whatever

One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out. Mary Quant

• book
• imagination
• canned

There must me something in books, things we can't imagine. Ray Bradbury

• moon
• long
• truthfulness

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth. Herman Hesse

• great
• small
• greatness

They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world. Tove Jansson

• friendship
• friends
• friend

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing. Haruki Murakami

• less
• things
• proves

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be. Arthur Conan Doyle