Quotes of: Useful-thing Keyword

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we wer...

C.S. Lewis

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school ...

Donna VanLiere

For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, ...

Bertrand Russell

If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We...

André Aciman

Concerning our faith in the Lord, I am convinced that most of us have relied on willpower, self-effort, and religious activities in our attempts to live a holy life. And eventually when we figure out that those things don’t work, we do one of two ...

Alan de Jager

Concerning our faith in the Lord, I am convinced that most of us have relied on willpower, self- effort, and religious activities in our attempts to live a holy life. And eventually when we figure out that those things don’t work, we do one of two...

Alan de Jager

I missed my mother's father. Is that even possible? Maybe I had fallen asleep for a while. Maybe I was like her, just waking up and looking for him to be there. I wondered how it would have changed things for all of us if he had stayed home the day h...

Ann Patchett

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.

The Funny Thing Is...

Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.

The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed u...

Dexter Holland

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

Angela's Ashes

Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.

The Sound of Things Falling

I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.

Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

More Than You Know

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

Living to Tell the Tale

Things just didn’t work out between us. Who knows, another time, another place, maybe things still wouldn’t have worked out.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth.

Swann's Way

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

The Orphanage of Miracles

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

If she lets us down, if she’s weird sometimes—just ignore it, and love her. Just love her.

Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You