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Things Quotes by Colum McCann
- I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
- Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
- Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist…
- I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and…
- Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those…
- Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them.…
- Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
- So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.
- Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle