Quotes About Things

É engraçado, mas já reparou que, quanto mais especiais são as coisas, menos atenção as pessoas parecem dedicar a elas? Parece que acham que nunca vão mudar.

Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

If they have to be named after anything at all, why can't it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas, which never really die, not even bad ones?

La primera vez de todo. El inventario incompleto de mis crímenes. Una cosa incompleta más en mi vida llena de cosas incompletas.

Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window. Suave. Sultry. I'm neither of those things

We attempt to glorify and enthrone all good things that die.

Your kind has a superstitious terror of things ugly and broken; you fear that their condition may somehow infect you.

Each thing had a value and as the value changed, everything else changed also. A broken calabash was worth less than one that held its water, a hook that kept its catfish more prized than one that relinquished its bait. In America the quirk was that people were things.

In America the quirk was that people were things. Best to cut your losses on an old man who won't survive a trip across the ocean.

That's that. I'm not saying that anything nefarious happened, only saying what happened." He gestured for a refill. "One thing I've learned in my job is that life is cheap, and when things start getting expensive, it gets cheaper still.

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

I like observing people. I like looking at things.

Children never forget injustice. They forgive heaps of things grown-up people mind; but that sin is the unpardonable sin.

I first understood that things which to me had seemed natural were actually forbidden

Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

I'd rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time. I'd rather give them things than time.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Muchacha, te contaré algo: el mundo está lleno de historias. Todas las personas y todas las cosas tienen historias que contar. A algunas de ellas se llega a través de gente como yo, que las relata para que no se olviden. Otras, en cmbio... se viven. ¿Entiendes? (...) Ahora tú debes decidir (...) si seguirás siendo una oyente o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia

Todas las personas y todas las cosas tienen historias que contar. A algunas de ellas se llega a través de gente como yo, que las relata para que no se olviden. Otras, en cambio… se viven. ¿Entiendes? Viana asintió, aunque no estaba segura de comprenderlo del todo. —Ahora tú debes decidir —concluyó Oki— si seguirás siendo una oyente o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia.

El mundo está lleno de historias. Todas las personas y todas las cosas tienen historias que contar. A algunas de ellas se llega a través de gente como yo, que las relata para que no se olviden. Otras, en cambio… se viven.

It was a little thing, she knew, but life was all sorts of little things added up.

But failing isn't proof that nothing matters or that we were fools to care. We fail even though things matter very much; it's the possibility of failure that makes them matter even more.

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,

But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When in fact, most of the time there were simply ways.