Thing Quotes (page 893)

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• thinking
• enjoyment
• things to do

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it. Johnny Depp

• change
• look
• time

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again. Doug Coupland

• real
• life
• she

There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered,... Virginia Woolf

• change
• nature
• people

...the Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively. Walter Lippmann

• hope
• confused
• hopes

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. Arthur Schopenhauer

• love
• wall
• bird

Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted; nothing increased or diminished. We stand on the same shore before the same mighty ocean. The ocean of love. There it is - in perpetuum. As much in a broken blossom, the sound of a waterfall, the swoop of a carrion bird as in the thunderous artillery of the prophet. We move with eyes shut and ears stopped; we smash walls where doors are waiting to open to the touch; we grope for ladders, forgetting that we have... Henry Miller

• greatness
• men
• eyes

There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. ... You can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son of a Goddamned Bitch named Georgie Patton. George S. Patton

• to live
• direct
• yours

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way. Federico Fellini

• dark
• children
• securities

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark. Stephen King

• success
• today
• evening

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet. John C. Maxwell

• time
• timely
• gets

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time. Robert Anton Wilson

• communication
• imports
• import

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter Drucker

• things
• oh

Oh... It's a thing. James Rollins

• sick
• hand
• manly

If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand. Daphne du Maurier

• manly
• thinking
• my man

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts. Fyodor Dostoevsky