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Quotes About Things

Happiness is found within Oneself. It can't be accessed through People or Things.
~ Joan Ambu
One cannot make bargains for blissesOr catch them like fishes in netsAnd sometimes the things that life misses Help more than the things that it gets.
~ Alice Carey
Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.
~ The Minimalists
the Universal Law manipulates people and things in accordance with the energy we generate in our thought world through the use we make by our intellect of our inspirational, intuitional and revelational faculties.
~ Napoleon Hill
It is often with the most noble intentions that we do so, as we are pressured to "fix" things, so we often blow them up with our fear of randomness and love of smoothness.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Il romanzo è fra le cose del mondo che sono insieme inutili e necessarie.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.
~ Natalie Babbitt
You have the soul of a corporation, a teacher once told him. It was meant as an insult, but he took it as a compliment. Corporations have great power and do fine things in this world when they choose to.
~ Neal Shusterman
I know this sounds weird...but it's like we're all a part of this machine. The things we've done—the things we still have to do—they're all connected.
~ Neal Shusterman
He whose thoughts, like skylarks, Toward the morning sky take flight —Who hovers over life and understands with ease The language of flowers and silent things!
~ Charles Baudelaire
the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
~ Charles Bukowski
Sociopath was one of the most useful concepts that Miriam's Memetic Engineering Task Force had imported from the United States: Erasmus's Propaganda Ministry had been working overtime to raise awareness of it as an Anti-Democratic Problem: People who think People are Things.
~ Charles Stross
A small thing, yes, but the world was rich with small things that in truth were signs of great importance.
~ Chris Bohjalian
Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.
~ Lisa Gansky
In the league, anything can happen. Once one team gets momentum, things can change really fast.
~ Kemba Walker
This book is essentially different from any other that has been published concerning the "late war" or any of its incidents. Those who have had any such experience as the author will see its truthfulness at once, and to all other readers it is commended as a statement of actual things by one who experienced them to the fullest.
~ Tim O'Brien
The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.
~ Tom Robbins
Yet the history of media shows that this is just the modern incarnation of the timeless complaint of the intellectual elite, every time technology makes publishing easier, that the wrong sort of people will use it to publish the wrong sorts of things.
~ Tom Standage
Without idealism, politics is reduced to a form of social accounting, the day-to-day administration of men and things. This too is something that a conservative can survive well enough. But for the Left it is a catastrophe.
~ Tony Judt
In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
~ Koichi Tanaka
How can I possibly sleep at a time like this?" He sighed. "You will learn that a lot of things are possible.
~ Kristin Hannah
When I see heavy dramas with no comic relief, I don't think they're honest. I don't think people go through life miserable all the time; in fact, if you're very miserable, you giggle a lot at the oddest things." --Carl Reiner in "The Trib
~ Carl Reiner
If we have demonstrated such greed at the table of the body, imagine how we would have behaved at the table of spiritual things, if we had felt ourselves attracted by it.
~ Carlo Carretto