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Things Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
- It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.
- There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory…
- I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time…
- Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It…
- We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family…
- We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I…
- I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build…
- I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
- One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
- You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are…
- Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.
- Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do…
- When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
- So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about.…
- A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things…
- There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
- I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a…
- The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.
- (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family…
- They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they…
- Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and…
- Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.
- The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.
- What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt…
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- 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