Quotes About Things

The circumstances in which you get pleasure from pain are going to be rare. And this makes sense. As both Bentham and Darwin knew well, the hurt of pain is there to get us to stop doing certain things.

This is a theory of why effort is often unpleasant. The phenomenology of getting tired doesn't reflect a diminishing resource; rather, it is about growing opportunity cost. This feeling of difficulty is a signal that there are better things to do elsewhere.

The story he told me was "per sfogarsi," as Bayle loved to say; his idea was that I would not discover the real hero. I shall always believe that it was his own story under another name, and I love to believe it because it was so exactly his way of looking at things...

He realised that comfortable surroundings, indeed the gilded surroundings of his own life until then, and all the things that went with that, don't tend to produce happiness or fulfilment without some sense of love to go with them.

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

Only insofar as we remain in harmony with divine law - do good things come to us

time like an empty sack you can stuff any number of things into, does it never go just from here to there, but instead in circles, round and round, so that every single time the wheel has turned, you are back where you started.

fortune is not in time or place or things; but, good or bad, in the man's own self for him alone to find and prove.

Miracle is just a word we use for the things The Powers have deluded us into thinking that God is unable to do. (Walter Wink)

Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big." — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)

You got a good spirit," said Benetsee, "falcon spirit. Pretty swift, little too sure sometimes, get you in trouble, crash into things.

Poetry chooses choice things, carefully selecting select words, arranging, fabulously, things arranged. To put it differently is hard, if not out of the question.

climbed along things he called tree reefs that live in a nebula of gas dense enough to breathe.

Hey, I said, you can keep my things they've come to take me home

My brother's costume is the exception. He looks like an American. In fact, he behaves like one. When he tried to pick up the first kid he knocked down, he smashed into several others, it snowballed, chaos ensued. My brother very much resembled America today in pretty much all things.

Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.

So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.