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Things Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- Like and equal are two entirely different things.
- God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but…
- When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
- We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.
- It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries…
- It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of…
- That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
- I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
- I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
- It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called…
- I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the…
- That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.
- For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.
- We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which…
- We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
- My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen,…
- When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an…
- If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a…
- Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you…
- In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave…
- Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.
- I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to…
- God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound…
- We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know,…
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