Quotes About Thing

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

is not to be expected that there should be agreement about the definition of any thing, until there is agreement about the thing itself.

When we predicate of any thing an abstract name, we affirm of the thing that it is one or other of these five things; that it is a case of Existence, or of Co-existence, or of Causation, or of Sequence, or of Resemblance.

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?

but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

What does it all mean?' I said. 'A good question,' he rejoined: 'nobody knows what anything is; a man can learn only what a thing means. Whether he do, depends on the use he is making of it.

But the shades and the kinds and degrees of possession are innumerable; and not until we downright love a thing, can we know we understand it, or rightly call it our own;

Intimacy is never separated from external elements, without which it could not be signified. Where we think we have caught hold of the Grail, we have only grasped a thing, and what is left in our hands is only a cooking pot.

One or two of the villagers have seen it, too, though not as clearly as he did. Old Buttermere said it was a white thing, that glided over the ground, and vanished into the shrubbery.' 'And a very good place for it to vanish, too,' said Hugo, wholly unimpressed. 'Give me a sheet, and a night without too much moonlight, and I'll engage to do the same!

The gift of working on a Robert O'Hara play is that you have to trust his language. It's all in there. You don't have to add one single thing.

So whatever decision you make, you're going to be able to find stories or signs to say 'I did the right thing,' because we have to believe we did the right thing in order to survive.

I could not tell, now, if it was my need for knowledge that drove me of the hunger of the thing that infected the tower.

It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

Sure enough, it was just as I had dreaded, he started to climb the tree- What the Bull? Of course- who else? But a bull can't climb a tree. He can't can he? Since you know so much about it, did you ever see a bull try? No! I never dreamt of such a thing. Well, then, what is the use of your talking that way, then? Because you never saw a thing done, is that any reason why it can't be done?

Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?

Unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing

So some might imagine that I am an expert on time, although of course these days an expert is not necessarily a good thing to be.

That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.