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Things Quotes by Willa Cather
- There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
- Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
- The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
- When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us…
- I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
- He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into…
- Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination…
- Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave…
- I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree…
- Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
- I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all…
- But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow…
- Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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