But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.
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Related We ought to be tired of empty buildings. If they tear down Roosevelt, you'll have another big, empty... CURTIS JOHNSON Treat your thoughts as if they were guests and wishes as if they were children. VIKRANT PARSAI If Wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. FRANK HERBERT Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentle... ALFRED STIEGLITZ A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minu... MARGARET ATWOOD We hope your days ahead are as dark and empty as the hole you left in our hearts. DANIELLE TAYLOR All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for
if it be true that is reported, the... PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) "Go with your first thoughts; they're usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals... RICK DANKO I really learned about leadership from them. They told me things that maybe sometimes at first I did... JAY SEARS Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with ... BRENT WEEKS Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once ... LIBBA BRAY Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you. RICHIE NORTON But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true. WALT DISNEY COMPANY People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have ... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF It wasn't until I got out in the world and started worked professionally when I realized that th... DAVEED DIGGS Ann, Ann!
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In the frying-pan. WALTER DE LA MARE Ann, Ann! / Come! quick as you can! / There's a fish that talks / In the frying pan. WALTER DE LA MARE I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand ... JOHN HAWKES When they found her, they found her with her (nursing) ID. Her thoughts were that after the storm pa... SHERYL TURNEY Wishes are free, unless you forget they are not real for then they become expensive. JIM GENOVESE If people want to come past the security gates and see what our world was like down in the hole, thi... GARY MARLON SUSON There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone... JOHN GREEN Therefore leave them alone to go on with the false discourses and to sport until they come face to f... QURAN There was nothing that could prepare a person for discovering they were a pawn in a war between myth... SAMANTHA YOUNG Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. T... KAHLIL GIBRAN The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to co... STEPHEN AMELL At the moment, they police don't come down here unless they have to - that's why the bus was set on ... JOHN ADAIR One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want t... JAMES WAN If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take ... FRED ROGERS The phrase "in the dark," as I'm sure you know, can refer not only to one's shadowy surroundings, bu... LEMONY SNICKET That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as... SHERWOOD ANDERSON Don't wait for the world to come after you; you come after the world. A part of its ship is what you... BISHER AL-HOMSI In the early 1990s, if you told somebody you were a curler, they probably wouldn't know what you wer... JAMIE KORAB Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a pl... RACHEL GATHERCOLE Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the ... LEMONY SNICKET We were in a black hole. There was nothing. The generator at the police department broke down. For a... BEN MORRIS You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would hav... BARBARA O'CONNOR Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that ... JAY ASHER They were mostly French, a few Arabs, and despite their uniforms they didn't look very important any... DOUGLAS WOOLF May the sun shine all day long, everything go right and nothing wrong. May those you love bring love... IRISH BLESSINGS I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn�... J.D. ROBB But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and ... AMY CARMICHAEL Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire un... LIONEL SUGGS A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you foun... SARAH CROSS The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev... UMBERTO ECO But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the d... LURLENE MCDANIEL Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. DEMOSTHENES Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. DIANE ARBUS Just be honest with yourself. The more you admit to yourself your true inner most feelings and thoug... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. Whe... HOWARD SPRING If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. BIBLE When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happene... PADDY CONSIDINE The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Moth... SHIRLEY JACKSON Maybe they will come and make us leave, ... But if they do, well, there's nothing you can do about i... LUIS DIAZ I think it's awesome for the kids. They worked really hard to get here. I'm just happy for them. We ... JODY BASS ...playing possum was a skill he'd learned in China once upon a time, and it had come in handy more ... TAYLOR ANDERSON In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fough... THEODORE BIKEL There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world... RICHARD A. NELSON I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself ... C. NZINGHA SMITH They were few, but they were hardened in fire. They had been cast out and many would hunger as he di... CONN IGGULDEN No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes – it is only through your own efforts that yo... ABHIJIT NASKAR Finally. We were 2-of-10 before to that point. If we would've kept that up, that strategy for them (... KAREN FRIEL True love is all about setting them free, let them enjoy all then if they come back they are yours i... SUPERNA BATHEJA Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them. BOB CRAWFORD Galaxies were mere tide pools. The empty space between them was a killing field of dark-matter preda... T.R. DARLING Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soon as fear begins to ascend, a... DON DELILLO Dreams don't work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live th... ROY T. BENNETT I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothin... TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things. KAREN JOY FOWLER Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the
everlasting wants of men, so that they ... HENRY WARD BEECHER It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts... GEORGE ELIOT I'd learned that you can't wear a crown unless you bear a cross - that if our Savior had learned obe... JONI EARECKSON TADA With mindful awareness, YOU are not your thoughts unless YOU choose them. REUBEN LOWE They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unles... T.H. WHITE The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field e... DONALD H. MCGANNON The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe fiel... DONALD H. MCGANNON The world has more winnable people than ever before
but it is possible to come out of a ripe field... DONALD H. MCGANNON Down the road, you are going to see a lot more wheelchair athletes come out. Maybe they felt uncomfo... CHUCK FALES Blake had a monster game. They were smart and double- and triple-teamed him, but he found ways to ge... BRAD CHASTEEN Double or nothing down the last hole? GREG NORMAN One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic .' The best parts of thi... RICHARD NELSON BOLLES Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear... ADAM DURITZ Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be... DEMOSTHENES 3 Doors Down asked us if we could fill in for them, and we are very happy that we were able to rearr... AARON LEWIS A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoug... BYRON KATIE Most charities are honest and are spending money with full accountability, but you won't know who th... BENNETT WEINER Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty th... JAMES ALLEN Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs
in your heart, the beauty th... JAMES ALLEN wish for nothing and the happiness wishes you. GOLLA DINESH KUMAR Thorpe said they were bad swims but, for anyone else, that's a world-class performance. You don't sw... DEAN PRICE Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true. CHARLES ALLEN Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true. CHARLES L. ALLEN I never even dreamed about this when I was a freshman. But I've learned that nothing is impossible. ... ALYSSA LAMPE Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really ab... EVAN PETERS That second goal was big for them because I thought we were outplaying them but they kill off the pe... GARY LINDGREN Life goals and changing the world...You've got to start small. You can not change the world unless y... ANGIE KARAN I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t wo... DEB CALETTI It sounds to me they were treading on the same ground that people's beliefs or thoughts or wishes... DAVID NEVIN
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ANN LANDERS Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ... ANN LANDERS What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, st... ANN LANDERS The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are ... ANN LANDERS Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. ANN OAKLEY One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. ... ANN LANDERS At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The t... ANN LANDERS The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so... ANN OAKLEY Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. ANN OAKLEY Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go ho... ANN LANDERS Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill o... ANN SCHULTZ It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is tha... ANN BEATTIE If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife. ANN LANDERS Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go h... ANN LANDERS Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ... ANN LANDERS Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. ANN LANDERS The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. ANN LANDERS When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the f... ANN RADCLIFFE When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears. ANN RADCLIFFE It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one! ANN RADCLIFFE There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not e... ANN RADCLIFFE Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each o... ANN RADCLIFFE All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good... ANN LANDERS What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab... ANN RADCLIFFE There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children. ANN RADCLIFFE What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the so... ANN RADCLIFFE Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their p... ANN RADCLIFFE The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinemen... ANN RADCLIFFE Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow. ANN RADCLIFFE