Quotes about Things, page 12

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about things

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about things

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about things

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

Quote by Orson Scott about things

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Quote by Orson Scott about things

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Quote by Jane Austen about things

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Quote by James Russell Lowell about things

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Quote by Jane Austen about things

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about things

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never...

Quote by Bette Davis about things

I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things I've written which might disappear otherwise.

Quote by Michael Chabon about things

It just clicked: if the character had a nosebleed, it would be like a 'losing the virginity' thing, physical evidence like blood on the sheets. That was exactly the kind of image I'd been looking for.

Quote by Michael Chabon about things

It probably reaches deep down into my childhood history as a geek, being interested in comic books and getting nowhere with girls. Those two things going hand-in-hand.

Quote by Michael Chabon about things