Quotes About Things

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

I employ this thing I called The Shovel List." "A shovel..?" "No, a shovel list. It's more of a conceptual thing. It's a list of all the people and things I hate so much I want to hit them in the face with a shovel.

Sylvie only kept them, I think, because she considered accumulation to be the essence of housekeeping, and because she considered the hoarding of worthless things to be proof of a particularly scrupulous thrift.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone.

So it couldn't matter much how life seemed. The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either. Most of the time she thought she understood things better when she didn't try. Things happen the way they do. Why was a foolish question. In a song a note follows the one before because it is that song and not another one.

Aquí cambian las personas, teniente, nunca las cosas.

The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely. How anyone could work in the same office for ten years or bring up children without putting certain things to the back of their mind was beyond him.

What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that?' I nudged him hard, saying: 'Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing.

Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise;

You must understand that you're working for a crazy maniac and that our duty is to find out what he wants and to create the world that he believes in, and to show him that's the way things are

It was true, however, that he sometimes startled his hearers by things which might have been considered to border on coarseness if they had not been said by a clergyman.

To have a sense of the profound unity of things is to have a sense of anarchy, -and of the effort required to reduce things while restoring them to unity. Whoever has the sense of unity also has the sense of the multiplicity of things, of that dust of appearances through which one must pass in order to reduce and destroy them.

to be learning something is the greatest of pleasures not only to the philosopher but also to the rest of mankind, however small their capacity for it; the reason of the delight in seeing the picture is that one is at the same time learning--gathering the meaning of things...

Comme la pensée collective ne peut exister comme pensée, elle passe dans les choses (signes, machines...). D'où ce paradoxe : c'est la chose qui pense et l'homme qui est réduit à l'état de chose

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

What if earthBe but the shadow of heaven, and things thereinEach to other like, more than on earth is thought?

Glorious things of thee are spoken,Zion, city of our God.

The wasted life is the life without a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Are names more properly said to be the names of things, or of our ideas of things? The first is the expression in common use; the last is that of some metaphysicians, who conceived that in adopting it they were introducing a highly important distinction.

It is hardily credible of how great consequences before God the smallest things are; and what great inconveniences some times follow those which appear to be light faults.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.