Thing Quotes
In which there’s no such thing as private property rights.
Adrian CronauerAdrian Cronauer Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
Aaron AllstonAaron Allston Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
PlotinusPlotinus I want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
Bram StokerBram Stoker You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose…
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Saul BellowSaul Bellow You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months.
Marco RubioMarco Rubio The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing.
Adam FaulknerAdam Faulkner We’re to love people and use things, not love things and use people.
Adrian RogersAdrian Rogers Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that’s wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, ‘Let’s do that again tomorrow.’
Akiva GoldsmanAkiva Goldsman There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo MachiavelliNiccolo Machiavelli I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley I’m fighting against becoming soft. That’s the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.
Dennis RodmanDennis Rodman Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner