Quotes About Thing

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

You were. You are The brightest thing in the shop window And the most beautiful seldom I ever saw

It is a rare beast that gets such a funeral," Father remarked, sweating and leaning on his spade. "Lucky cat." Personally I think the cat would have been luckier had it lived. Then again, life for a stray, unwanted thing is not always pleasant, so perhaps Father was right after all.

he had focused so long on the precision of the word, the utterance that was most unfettered by artful manipulation, that the thing had become mere style.

Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it.

I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence — 'Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it'.

Perception, which is an event, opens onto the thing perceived, which appeared to be prior to perception and to be true before it. And if perception always reaffirms the preexistence of the world, it is precisely because it is an event, because the subject who perceives is already at grips with being through the perceptual fields, the "senses.

An expression and what it expresses strangely alternate and, through a sort of false recognition, make us feel that the word has inhabited the thing from all eternity...One of the effects of language is to efface itself to the extent that its expression comes across.

to own only a little talent . . . was an awful, plaguing thing . . . being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time. —Mary Robison, "Yours

But this thing, this desire to be bossed around, dominated—such a cliché. Such an old, dusty woman thing she'd never understand. She'd never felt it herself.

It was confounding to see magic and beauty and mystery leach out of a thing, to think it could be used up like a store of winter supplies.

Next thing I know you've run off to Paris and thrown yourself under the nearest Frenchman-

The main thing about Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the atmosphere produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to look after, and it is the one thing that is being continually assailed.

Because at that moment it was the best thing to do," Honey said coolly. "Sometimes the only action you can take leads to more trouble. But she would have considered that when she did it. Mercy is no fool

Why? Because pride is a strange thing, and because generosity deserves generosity in return. But mostly because it felt like the right thing to do, and that is reason enough.

I am sorry to tell you this thing. Youu are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger.

I am sorry to tell you this thing. You are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger.

But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love.

pride is a strange thing, and because generosity deserves generosity in return. But mostly because it felt like the right thing to do, and that is reason enough.

Remember the biblical principle of idolatry, desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.

The transcendent glory that every human being quests for, whether he knows it or not, is not a thing; it is a person, and his name is God.