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Things Quotes by Tove Jansson
- A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and…
- Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled.…
- All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day.…
- Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long,…
- Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot…
- Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it…
- A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now…
- They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.
- All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
- I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things…
- But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry…
- There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little…
- Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.
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