Quotes about something

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“I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them."

… Lucy”

“Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.”

“When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.”

“I looked at Rachel. "You're not going to do anything stupid, are you? I mean…. you talked to Chiron, right?"
She managed a faint smile. "You're worried aboutdoing something stupid?”

“Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with… It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.”

“Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out.”

“Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.”

“Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.”

“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”

“I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready.”

“People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.”

“Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.”

“Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.

Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.”

“Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.”

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”

“I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it."
"He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in.
"Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.”

“Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.”

“I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.”

“I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.”

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them… to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”

“High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.”

“I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?”

“I'm talking about doing something good for mankind. Imagine how awesome everyone would feel if they knew all that holy stuff was real." -Gregori
"Stuff? Four years of giving sermons, and that what I get back? Holy stuff?”

“Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
it's closing time.”

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

“Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.”

“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”

“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”

“If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”

“We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.”

“It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.”

“She's… just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.”

“I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.”

“There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious — painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour — but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.”

“Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.”

“It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.”

“Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”

“If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.”

“Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.”

“A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.”

“Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.”

“I hope that something better comes along.”

“There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.”

“Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.”

“Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says “Bad war, good soldier.” Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.”

“Rose: "You see something you like?"
Dimitri: "Get dressed.”
-Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)”

“If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.”

“Cats are cats… the world over!
These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something.
-James Mackintosh Qwilleran”

“I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too."

What?"

I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.”

“The boy smiled -- mostly at Amy.
"Sorry, her heart belongs to Ian Kabra," Dan said, except that something in her expression made him realize her heart didn't belong at all to Ian
right now.”

“In these silences, something may rise”

“If killing yourself is not an option anymore,
you have to sink into the darkness instead,
and make something out of it.”

“Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.”

“The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.”

“Got something new, maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok.”

“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”

“In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.”

“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”

“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!”

“The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.”

“There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.”

“When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.”

“Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.”

“I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.”

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”

“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”

“The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self
to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer,
and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden:
the self.”

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”

“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”

“Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.”

“Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated something that made even me feel like crossing myself sometimes, and I'm not religious.”

“Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.”

“The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.”

“Massie's frindship is something that has to be earned. Not because she's beautiful or popular but because she's loyal.”

“Sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”

“Tell me something wicked.”

“I can’t for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat. You know how if you turned on a faucet in your sink to wash your hands, the idea of leaving the bathroom without turning it off is insane? That’s how I am about ignoring delicious food.”

“If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.”

“He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.”

“When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.”

“This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.”

“Something that you feel will find its own form.”

“If your going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”

“Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.”

“… surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity..”

“Belatedly, Clary recalled something. "I thought you guys said onlyof the vampire bikes could fly?"… [Jace:]"Only some of them can!" "How did you know this was one of them?" "I didn't!" he shouted gleefully…”

“Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.”

“Most good things come with the risk of something bad.”

“It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.”

“The woman said something to Roman. He stopped, turned to her, and shook his staff.
She crossed her arms. I couldn't see her face, but I read the body language well enough.”

“And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose”

“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”

“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”

“(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands”

“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.”

“Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

“Resorting to connecting the dots this morning because it was a long night & he needs to do something really simple to get started again.”

“Baby, I ain't trash. Trash is something you throw away. My people keep me.”