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In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selection between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Communism is an interesting thing to do, nothing I ever want to be.
~ Cory Doctorow
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
~ Walt Whitman
Falling in love is not the most stupid thing that people do," Einstein scribbled on the letter, "but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
~ Walter Isaacson
Lower Manhattan to tell me that whatever he was touting was the best thing he had ever produced. I liked him.
~ Walter Isaacson
Bukkake," said a voice in my ear. "Multiple ejaculations onto the face. It's the new thing." It was the tattooed girl, crouched behind my chair. "This is the only genuine and authentic Godzilla Bukkake night in America.
~ Warren Ellis
There's an old Quidneck saying about fools: The only thing worse than one of them is two of them.
~ Chet Williamson
In the end, only something endowed with mystery is worthy of love. It is impossible to love something stripped of mystery; at best it would be a thing one uses as one sees fit.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you. I hate reasoning, John,—especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves, when it comes to practice. I know you well enough, John. You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
It's a good thing people's needs don't all arise at the same time; otherwise we wouldn't be able to meet them all. When you left Wisconsin, it was Poppy's turn. Roo's is coming.
~ Laurie Frankel
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
~ James Thurber
You have to dare to make a choice that may be considered unorthodox in a role, but when you're working as if there are tons of people watching you, that's not necessarily a good thing.
~ Viola Davis
People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current 'thing' stylists not decorators.
~ Nicholas Haslam
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.
~ Tom Waits
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?
~ Cynthia Payne
By stopping flying, you don't only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.
~ Greta Thunburg
Apparently, dirt eating is really a 'real thing,' and you can actually buy it in some stores and online.
~ Cynthia Bailey
Life is not a dream it is a thing
~ Tim Peake
He started the damn thing!" Nixon said in a taped telephone conversation with his spiritual adviser, the Reverend Billy Graham. "He killed Diem!
~ Tim Weiner
One game, one of the kids yelled, 'The only thing Riverses are good at is coaching.' I didn't take offense, I just smiled.
~ Austin Rivers
But acting had entered my world through older brothers. It was a basic thing: all that just looks cool.
~ Killian Scott
The thing about Louisiana food is that it's really good for about three months, but they only know how to make one thing, and they dip whatever they can find in a bucket of oil.
~ Joe Burrow