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Things Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never…
- Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
- Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.
- The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt…
- For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk,…
- If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,…
- You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...
- Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from,…
- How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and…
- Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
- Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its…
- The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and…
More Things Quotes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- If I were an actor I could be someone, someone who'd always know the right things to say. But as soon as… — Superman
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- 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