Itemizing Quotes & Sayings

The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light. — Gu Cheng

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.'" Caleb nodded. "From the Book of John." "Yes," she said quietly. "It's one of my favorite verses of Scripture. In times of stress, I repeat that verse, as many times as needed. It never fails to help keep me calm. I've always found that giving Christ complete authority over my life brings an unbelievable freedom. The kind of freedom that nothing, or no one else, can. — JoAnn Durgin

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation. — James Thurber

Yet again I was reminded that the way in which things and events unfold does not always coincide with our expectations. Indeed, this fact of life - that there is often a gap between the way in which we perceive phenomena and the reality of a given situation - is the source of much unhappiness. — Dalai Lama XIV

(Courtesy of Jeremy Johnson) Rory the Dead Raccoon stood up on his hind legs, his arms stretched out in glee. He looked like he was the most excited member of your surprise party, or like a Time Lord in the process of regenerating. — Jenny Lawson

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.' — Burn Gorman

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder. — Emily Carr

You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun. — Carmelo Anthony

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is. — Charlaine Harris

As she grew older, she was aware of her changing position on mortality. In her youth, the topic of death was philosophical; in her thirties it was unbearable and in her forties unavoidable. In her fifties, she had dealt with it in more rational terms, arranging her last testament, itemizing assets and heirlooms, spelling out the organ donation, detailing the exact words for her living will. Now, in her sixties, she was back to being philosophical. Death was not a loss of life, but the culmination of a series of releases. It was devolving into less and less. You had to release yourself from vanity, desire, ambition, suffering, and frustration - all the accoutrements of the I, the ego. And if you die, you would disappear, leave no trace, evaporate into nothingness ... — Amy Tan

it was at Pompeii, nonetheless, that archaeology was born. It was to come of age in Egypt. Once — Elizabeth Payne

Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms. — Richard Dawkins

There is a very simple statement to be made about all these stories: they do not really come off intellectually as problems, and they do not come off artistically as fiction. They are too contrived, and too little aware of what goes on in the world. They try to be honest, but honesty is an art. The poor writer is dishonest without knowing it, and the fairly good one can be dishonest because he doesn't know what to be honest about. He thinks a complicated murder scheme which baffled the lazy reader, who won't be bothered itemizing the details, will also baffle the police, whose business is with details. — Raymond Chandler

I'm interested. It's like you've got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you ... — Rainbow Rowell

It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can. — Sebastian Barry

Embrace simplicity ... be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you. — Chris Prentiss

The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems. — Dick Gephardt