Quotes About Things

Awe is an intuition of the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

Wallets can establish connections and change opinions. Things that fall apart can be glued back by money with astonishing alacrity.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. I know that sounds horrible and cruel, considering what happens to a lot of people, and it can't be the whole explanation. But it's a considerable part of it.

Two accusations against our political inheritance have lodged in the brains that I have examined in this book: first, that 'capitalist' society is founded on power and domination; second, that 'capitalism' means 'commodification', the reduction of people to things, and the fetishizing of things as agents.

You know how subtle Brand can be, finding out things without seeming to be after them.

Such care in small things might seem penurious to some people, yet to him it was the working out of a life principle.

I think of the limitations that specialness requires: doing a series of very unspecial things, very well, over and over (...) (P223)

The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.

Certainly it seems that nature desires to exterminate the human race, as a thing useless to the world, and the destroyer of all created things.

How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to herself.

Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very

The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.

Yes, after all, in spite of one's exhaustion, in spite of one's agony, one felt one's spirits rise. Comfort and misery are relative things.

Both of us had long since learned to take the stupidity and indolence of men for granted and as things of which it was superfluous to speak.

A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it's only a pity.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

You need to know that you are a spiritual being so that you can do helpful things to allow your innate qualities to unfold and express.

I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

Se accedere al senso più nobile delle cose era una faccenda di determinazione, allora accedere al senso delle cose diventava quasi un privilegio riservato alla borghesia. Perfetto.

The sound of the kettle boiling was in itself the sound of normality, of reason, the sound of a fight back against the sadness of things.

Mma Lentswe looked into her teacup. "Children say these things. They never admit they did anything. I was a teacher, Mma—I know that.

You know how they leave their things lying around on the floor." Mma Ramotswe, in spite of her commitment to fairness, had to agree. Men were very untidy, for the most part. They could not help it, she knew, and one could not blame them for it, as neither could they help being men. It was just the way things were.