Quotes about something page 37
Maggie Shayne (1965) American writer
Source: Colder than Ice
“Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
Cory Doctorow (1971) Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author
“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer
Source: Everything Flows
“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Sherry Argov (1977) American writer
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
“Nothing happens until something moves.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Cheaters
“To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.”
Agatha Christie book Hallowe'en Party
Source: Hallowe'en Party
“Go to where the silence is and say something.”
Amy Goodman (1957) American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author
Harry Crews (1935–2012) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
“There are no coincidences. And everything means something.”
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Sweep: Volume 1
“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Variant: Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
Source: A Poetry Handbook
Jeanne Birdsall (1951) American children's writer
Source: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) American writer
Source: Drinking: A Love Story
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Source: Leaving Cheyenne
“Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.”
Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer
Source: Everlasting
“A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.”
David Eddings book Pawn of Prophecy
Source: Pawn of Prophecy
“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.”
Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits
Source: The House of the Spirits
“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
Aristophanés (-448–-386 BC) Athenian playwright of Old Comedy
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: The Piper's Son
Cyril Connolly book Enemies of Promise
Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 3: The Challenge of the Mandarins (p. 19)
“Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Infamous
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Letter to a friend, quoted in The Life of Florence Nightingale (1913) by Edward Tyas Cook, p. 94
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant translations: The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms — it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties — this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
As quoted in After Einstein : Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration (1981) by Peter Barker and Cecil G. Shugart, p. 179
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
As quoted in Introduction to Philosophy (1935) by George Thomas White Patrick and Frank Miller Chapman, p. 44
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man."
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Context: The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man.
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bites
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Jede Vorstellung ist eine Verallgemeinerung, und diese gehört dem Denken an. Etwas allgemein machen, heißt, es denken.
"Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts oder Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse", Berlin, 1833, p. 35
"Every representation is a generalization, and this is inherent in thought. To generalize something means to think it."
"Any idea is a universalization, and universalizing is a property of thinking. To universalize something means to think."
"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820/1821)
“If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“But you can't make someone be something they're not.”
Sara Shepard (1973) Author
Source: Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
“My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Raven's Shadow
