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Things Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
- "Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna…
- Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change…
- I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We…
- If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its…
- What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is…
- I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed…
- all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why…
- You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
- some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's…
- the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of…
- So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to…
- There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and,…
- You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to…
- The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
- Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me…
- I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was…
- the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue…
- I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl…
- Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It…
- There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that 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