Old Things Quotes - Page 5

• It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.

  Anne Fadiman

  Waiting, Psychology, Example

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• Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.

  Lamar Alexander

  People, Would Be, Floating

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.

  Lauren Oliver

  Letting Go, Grief, Echoes

  "Pandemonium". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2012.

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• Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Soul, Sunflower, I Loved You

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.395, University of Michigan Press

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• He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Be True To Yourself

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• Nothing is going to stay the same; nothing's gonna sound like in 1952. There's some stuff that has some elements of back in the day, like back in the 90's, back in the 80's or whatever. Some elements, but it's not going to be the same, exactly, sounding. And I love it, I've seen the music change. I've seen the flow and the energy go from turned up to turned down to back to turned up. I like to try different stuff. I don't like to do the same old thing over and over again. I don't like to be repetitive, that gets on my nerves.

  Juicy J

  Trying, Back In The Day, Energy

  Source: www.independentphilly.com

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• Some things just couldn't be protected from the storm. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once the old things were broken off, amazingly beautiful things grow in their place.

  Harriet Morgan

  Funny, Beautiful, Broken

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• Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones, ditches, mounds, tumps, sacred wells, and that sort of thing. And, later on, with churches, market crosses, crossroads, and whatnot.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Men, Church, Lines

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

  Joseph Campbell

  Together Again, Elements, Body

  Peter A. Clayton, Joseph Campbell (1994). “Great figures of mythology”, Gramercy

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• If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

  Mark Batterson

  Different, Want, Praying

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.5, Zondervan

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