Quotes about something

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“It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.”

“They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.”

“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”

“The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.”

“You've been quiet lately… but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.”

“Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”

“Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.”

“If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.”

“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman… as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing… [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.”

“Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.”

“I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.”

“For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.”

“Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.”

“It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”

“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”

“You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?"

Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes."

"Not Coffee it is, then."

"Yes, Not Coffee.”

“There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.”

“Nothing happens until something moves.”

“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”

“To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.”

“It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.”

“When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.”

“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”

“Why do you think you are missing something you never had?”

“Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested but he'll make a good face about it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.”

“There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.”

“Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.”

“Color is only beautiful when it means something.”

“Go to where the silence is and say something.”

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”

“…I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.”

“There are no coincidences. And everything means something.”

“Until you have done something for humanity,” wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, “you should be ashamed to die.”

“When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.”

“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”

“Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing.
And a ridiculous thing, too.”

“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”

“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. Yes indeed.”

“But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.”

“Am I odd? Is there something wrong with me, like Mrs. Tifton Said?"

Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot, there's nothing wrong. with you.”

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”

“all the time something within her was crying for a decision.
She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand”

“I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.”

“Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face.”

“Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.”

“It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.”

“But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.”

“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”

“I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.”

“I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.”

“I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting… Something's going down. I'm right about this.”

“Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?”

“To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.”

“But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.”

“Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.”

“But… as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.”

“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”

“I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.'

Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.”

“What are you afraid of then?
Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.”

“Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger”

“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help […] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”

“Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.”

“A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.”

“Fine. Let’s begin with something even you can’t screw up.” – Death
“Way to build up my crappy confidence there. You should volunteer for the suicide hotline.” – Nick
“What makes you think I don’t?” – Death”

“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.”

“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”

“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”

“Something is always happening somewhere.”

“He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.”

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.”

“We may need to focus here.'
'Right. Yes. OK. Turn around.'
'Are you going to throw something at me?'
'What? No, I'm getting out of bed.”

“Think of every single thing that we 'have to' do to get through a day as something that we 'get to' do… before our turn is over.

Everything is a gift.”

“Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

“You ask me why I do not write something… I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.”

“Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.”

“Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.”

“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.”

“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

“Something large and happy has unfolded in my chest, erupting in a smile that won’t quit. I can’t remember ever feeling so light-hearted. Or is my heart full? Or bursting? Not aching, that’s for sure.”

“There was something very comforting about him, and I was not sure if it was his easy manner or his complete immunity to my scowling.”

“It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.”

“An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind….. Something incredibly important -.. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence”

“Any idea is a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize something means to think it.”

“We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.”

“It’s better to die than to live in the knowledge that you’ve done something that needs forgiveness.”

“If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.”

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”

“Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.”

“But you can't make someone be something they're not.”

“If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.”

“What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”

“So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?"

"Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!”

“My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.”

“When someone covets something they desire and lust over it. Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem…”

“If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.”

“Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.”