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Thing Quotes (page 902)

Ask no one to speak of you, not even contemptuously. And when time passes and you notice how your name is spreading around among people, don't take it more seriously than any of the other things you find on their lips. Think: your name has turned bad, and get rid of it. Take on another, any other, so that God can call you in the night. And conceal it from everyone. Rainer Maria Rilke
You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people. Andy Warhol
That's because May takes in things differently than the rest of us do." August reached over and laid her hand on my arm. "See, Lily, when you and I hear about some misery out there, it might make us feel bad for a while, but it doesn't wreck our whole world. It's like we have a built-in protection around our hearts that keeps the pain from overwhelming us. But May - she doesn't have that. Everything just comes into her - all the suffering out there - and she feels as if it's happening to her.... Sue Monk Kidd
Cormac McCarthy quote: "The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I..."
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "The hardest lesson in the world: Maybe it's just that when..."
The hardest lesson in the world: Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Cormac McCarthy
Henry Ford quote: "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't, you're right."
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't, you're right. Henry Ford
When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins. Oscar Wilde
Pearl S. Buck quote: "I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia..."
I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that. Pearl S. Buck
George MacDonald quote: "One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but..."
One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them ... George MacDonald
Albert Camus quote: "There are more things in people that are rather worth of..."
There are more things in people that are rather worth of admiration than contempt. Albert Camus
Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other. Jane Goodall
I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots. Haruki Murakami
Nick Hornby quote: "The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the..."
The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. Nick Hornby
A block or two west of the new City of Man in Turtle Bay there is an old willow tree that presides over an interior garden. It is a battered tree, long suffering and much climbed, held together by strands of wire but beloved of those who know it. In a way it symbolizes the city: life under difficulties, growth against odds, sap-rise in the midst of concrete, and the steady reaching for the sun. Whenever I look at it nowadays, and feel the cold shadow of the planes, I think: "This must be... E. B. White
It's fall coming, I kept thinking, fall coming; just like that was the strangest thing ever happened. Fall. Right outside here it was spring a while back, then it was summer, and now it's fall-that's sure a curious idea. Ken Kesey

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