Quotes about something
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“People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.”

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

People, Thinking, Help

“Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.”

Norman Vincent Peale book The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

Way

“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)

Music, Feeling, Motivation

“Harry Dresden: Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: The Dresden Files, White Night (2007), Chapter 31

Pain, Feeling, Dead, Forgetting

“My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

World, Imagination, Idea

“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Way

“Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.”

Jane Porter (1776–1850) Scottish historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure

Source: Odd Mom Out

Happiness, Thinking

“It all meant something. Until it didn't.”

Dave Eggers book A Hologram for the King

Source: A Hologram for the King

“purple does something strange to me”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Hope

“Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being.
No one was shallow. Not really.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: A Secret Affair

Flowers, Heart

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

Motivational, Inspirational, Positive, Good Morning

“There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.”

Megan Abbott book Dare Me

Source: Dare Me

Girl

“Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Perfection

“Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.”

Susanna Kaysen (1948) American writer

Soul, Thinking, Animals

“But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Thinking

“Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

World, Learning

“I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Home

“The law is not something holy, son. It’s just a reflection of the ideals of those lucky enough to be in charge.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Shadows of Self

Law

“There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Truth

“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea and you always double knot your shoelaces.' I fight back. Then I dive back into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.'

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.
Source: Mockingjay

Stupidity, Sleep, Fight, Tea

“Hey, aren’t we forgetting something? (Savitar)
Your dignity? (Takeshi)
No, you have me confused with you again. Aren’t you supposed to be training him? (Savitar)
So you admit my superiority by deflecting my attention to the neophyte. (Takeshi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Training, Forgetting

“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.”

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian

Star, Nature

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

This phrase was created by reporter Sharon Begley in the end of a 1977 Newsweek article with an extended profile of Carl Sagan. It was a final conclusion about Sagan's work and the topic of hypotethical extra-terrestrial life forms. "Quote Investigator" http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/18/incredible/ Misattributed

Waiting, Motivational, Success, Inspirational

“I can let you in, Eva. I’m trying. But your first response when I screw up is to run away. You do it every time and I can’t stand feeling like any moment I’m going to do or say something wrong and you’re going to bolt.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Feeling, Time

“I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Decision, Learning, Heart

“You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius”

Barbara Cooney (1917–2000) American writer and illustrator of children's books

World, Beauty

“And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

Truth, Beauty

“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”

Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) German-American psychologist

Attributed to Kurt Lewin in: Charles W. Tolman (1996) Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995. p. 31.

Understanding, Change

“Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.”

Chelsea Cain (1972) American journalist and writer

Source: Heartsick

World, Way

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

variant: If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself. variant: If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Frequently attributed to Richard Feynman Probably based on a similar quote about explaining physics to a "barmaid" by Ernest Rutherford Page 418 of Einstein: His Life and Times (1972) by Ronald W. Clark says that Louis de Broglie did attribute a similar statement to Einstein: : To de Broglie, Einstein revealed an instinctive reason for his inability to accept the purely statistical interpretation of wave mechanics. It was a reason which linked him with Rutherford, who used to state that "it should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid." Einstein, having a final discussion with de Broglie on the platform of the Gare du Nord in Paris, whence they had traveled from Brussels to attend the Fresnel centenary celebrations, said "that all physical theories, their mathematical expressions apart ought to lend themselves to so simple a description 'that even a child could understand them.' " The de Broglie quote is from his 1962 book New Perspectives in Physics, p. 184 http://books.google.com/books?id=xY45AAAAMAAJ&q=%22mathematical+expression+apart%22#search_anchor. Cf. this quote from David Hilbert's talk Mathematical Problems given in 1900 before the International Congress of Mathematicians: : "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street." Cf. this quote from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle: : Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn't explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan. Misattributed

Understanding