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Things Quotes by Norton Juster
- Many of the things which can never be, often are.
- The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
- Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things?…
- No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew…
- But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know,…
- I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did…
- I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more…
- Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug
- Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very…
- ...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
- But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble…
- ...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
- And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things…
- Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
- So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
- if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well…
- Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and…
- How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he…
- They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and…
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