Thing Quotes (page 898)

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• moments
• children
• mind

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers. Leo Tolstoy

• leaving
• new
• home

In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom out of the hospital, where she was recovering from the plague, and have his bat, Ares, fly them back up to the laudry room of their appartment building in New York City. Ares, his bond, who saved his life numerous times and who had had nothing but suffering since he had met Gregor. He tried to imagine the parting. "Well, Ares, it's been great. I'm heading home now. I know by leaving I'm... Suzanne Collins

• she
• victory
• different

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit. Ruth Benedict

• god
• needs
• gods

For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• mind
• pain
• hope

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you. Charles Bukowski

• art
• things
• visible

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible. Paul Klee

• world
• water
• food

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it. David Attenborough

• scientist
• answered
• answering

Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet. Mark Haddon

• home
• homely
• you

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home. J. R. R. Tolkien

• dog
• money
• history

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail. Josh Billings

• sad
• thinking
• fighting

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. Michel Foucault

• happy
• work
• believe

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out. Gordon B. Hinckley

• spring
• people
• communication

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. Andrew Carnegie

• art
• humanity
• natural beauty

Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with people rather than to them- this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the... Randolph Bourne

• life
• life lesson
• heart

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Wallace Stegner