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Thing Quotes (page 933)

William Wilberforce quote: "We are too young to realize that certain things are..."
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway. William Wilberforce
Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself. Jonathan Franzen
For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone. E. M. Forster
Ayaan Hirsi Ali quote: "However, some things must be said, and there are times when..."
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. Paul Newman
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs. Donna Tartt
For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!'I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.' In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks... J. R. R. Tolkien
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing. T. S. Eliot
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action. Martin Luther King jr.
Give me the ability to understandto be more than just another manto do the things I was sent here to doand to touch the world gently as I pass through. Javan
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair. Terry Prachett
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by servitude and yet always willing to accept the slipping on of the harness. There are limits to every domain, and laws to govern every organized power. But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the non-existent horizon, and her empire is an intangible one, for her domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit. Isabelle Eberhardt
Arundhati Roy quote: "Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it..."
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to. Arundhati Roy
Otto von Bismarck quote: "If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of..."
If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans. Otto von Bismarck

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