The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof of the existence of that thing. [Voltaire's response to Pascal's Wager]
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
I see great things in baseball.
If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of...
The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gn...
Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them for our attention; things expose themselves to the sun or retreat among the shadows, shouting ...
[...] it would be false to say that because we're on the side of justice, we can go ahead and destroy our opponents and the world will be at peace. [...] Now, I know that there are such things as good and evil in the world, and that people do good th...
One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only . Am I the only one who had this queer deep sense as a kid? -- that everything exterior to m...
Saying something is “meant to be” is a cop out. It’s a way for people to deal when they screw up or when life hands them a bowl of shit stew. The things that are meant to be are the things we can’t control, the things we don’t cause, the th...
