Quotes of: Useful-thing Keyword

The Sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The Moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every...

Tahereh Mafi

What is success? What does it mean that someone is successful? Success can be different things to different people. For us being successful is a conscious choice to be oneself. Success does not have to be dependent on any external circumstances and r...

Raphael Zernoff

When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things c...

Malala Yousafzai

For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride in our accomplishments, laughter and fun, relationships that aren't complex - we sometimes experience most often in the office. Bos...

Arlie Russell Hochschild

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts...

Chili Davis

Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I g...

Betty White

[ ... ]when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope--and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in u...

John Newton

Home...Is there really any place like it? A warm place filled with comfortable things. The smells and sounds of a home can ease the heaviest of hearts. A place where everything we cherish is nestled within its walls and greets us with familiar smiles...

Jason Versey

Mallory: You think you've been getting away with it all this time, standing by. Well, son... your bystanding days are over! You're in it now, up to your neck! They told me that you're a genius with explosives. Start proving it! [gesturing with his pi...

The Guns of Navarone

Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look,...

Anna Quindlen

He takes no pleasure in human tears. He came and wept that He might stop forever the fountain of human tears. He came and bereaved His mother that He might heal all bereavement. He came and lost everything that He might heal the wounds that we have f...

A.W. Tozer

The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth's crust. The theory that the earth act...

William Henry Preece

We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.

Dance Dance Dance

I felt a smile on my face. "Thanks." "For what?" "Using my name instead of calling me a thing.

Dark Light of Mine

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

Demonology: Stories

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.

Emily Climbs

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door. But you also get kind of used to it.

East

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

The Flamethrowers

Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved

Firelight

The worst thing that can happen to us is that our wings melt and we fall into the sea.

The Go-Go Girl