Quotes About Things

And right is a lid you put on something and some of the things under the lid look just like some of the things not under the lid, and there never was any notion of what was right if you put it down on folks in general that a lot of them didn't start squalling because they just couldn't do any human business under that kind of right.

Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things,' said Anne with one of those flashes of insight which experience could not have bettered.

I think the little things in life often cause more trouble than the big things - Anne Shirley

They tell me her things are fine enough for a princess, said Susan from a shadowy corner where she was cuddling her brown boy. I have been invited up to see them also and I intend to go some evening.

There are so many things in this room and all so splendid that there is no scope for imagination. That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

This white hot pain, naturally, is basically nothing but a precise measure of the forces which hold this body together. It is a precise measure of the force which has made my existence possible. Death and life are actually MONSTROUS things.

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.

nuestra era de pensamientos y cosas calculadas para generar «un impacto máximo y una obsolescencia instantánea», tal como decía George Steiner.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God.

Well, naturally, some of the animals must have escaped from the Wild World Animal Park, and part of it tried to remember if anyone in school ever told us what to do when faced with a lion; but no, of course they didn't, they were too busy teaching really useful things like the state capitals.

El precio real de todas las cosas, lo que cada cosa cuesta realmente a la persona que desea adquirirla, es el esfuezo y la fatiga que su adquisición supone.

Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one! Tell me, whose voice proclaims Things true and sad, Naming by all their old, unhappy names, What drove me mad--

Using a single word to describe two different things suggests a disregard for the world's real diversity which bears comparison with that shown by the cliché user.