
“There are two sides to every story and the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle.”
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A collection of quotes on the topic of somewhere, going, likeness, doing.
“There are two sides to every story and the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle.”
Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/10696117836382928/
Song Life is Beautiful, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2
“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about”
“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-U2-cAUMM
On Being, The Wisdom of Tenderness (transcript) http://www.onbeing.org/program/wisdom-tenderness/transcript/1369 Interview with Krista Tippett, December 24, 2009
From interviews and talks
Some Kind of Monster, 2003 - Talking about his addictions and big changes.
Source: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/writings/shockingly-simple-principles-of-spiritual-awakening/
Source: The Tao of Pooh
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 13
Context: My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”
“You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.”
Można powiedzieć, że byłem gdzieś niezręczny, może nawet kogoś wsypałem, ale nie to, że byłem agentem. Nie to, że chciałem kogoś zdradzić (...) Przysięgam i niech mnie szlag trafi, jeśli kłamię.
From the IV Copernican Debate at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, after Gazeta.pl http://miasta.gazeta.pl/torun/1,48723,6510083,Walesa__Przysiegam__ze_nie_bylem_agentem.html and TVN24 http://www.tvn24.pl/1,1596041,druk.html
Regarding the Vietnam War and conscription (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFMyrWlZ68
"Michael Jackson - Life in the magical kingdom" - Rolling Stone (February 17, 1983) http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/michael-jackson-life-in-the-magical-kingdom-19830217
"Michael Jackson - Life in the Magical Kingdom" Rolling Stone 1983
Kiyokazu Washida. The Past, the Feminine, the Vain in Talking to Myself (2002), Ch. 2: The Feminine, or the Gap Which Cannot be Filled.
“There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.”
Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empêchera d'être heureux.
La Sauvage ["The Restless Heart"] (1938), Act 3.
In the Shadow of the Moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Shadow_of_the_Moon
Inside the Painter's Studio, Joe Fig, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009, p. 42
Interview for Vogue magazine (December 2008)
"Charles Dickens" (1939)
Context: When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page. It is not necessarily the actual face of the writer. I feel this very strongly with Swift, with Defoe, with Fielding, Stendhal, Thackeray, Flaubert, though in several cases I do not know what these people looked like and do not want to know. What one sees is the face that the writer ought to have. Well, in the case of Dickens I see a face that is not quite the face of Dickens's photographs, though it resembles it. It is the face of a man of about forty, with a small beard and a high colour. He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened, the face of a man who is generously angry — in other words, of a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.
Source: Mark on the September 11 attacks in a 2012 interview
23 February 1944 http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/annefrank.html
(1942 - 1944)
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
“To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.”
“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.”
North to the Orient (1935) Ch. 19
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“That's a shame. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, cares.”
Source: The Faceless Ones
This has been compared to Horace Walpole's statement: "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
Variant translation: Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as a tragedy, the second time as farce.
Source: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
“Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere”
Source: The New Life
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1441/
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
Context: I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My county is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.
Source: My Double Life
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
Source: 1970s, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
Context: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"
Source: Awakened
Source: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Source: The Secrets of Peaches
“Somewhere in the world is… The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.”
Clock on the wall, www.Poemhunter.com http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/clock-on-the-wall/,
1960s, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966)
Berndt reicht mir eine Ausarbeitung über die von uns zu betreibende okkultistische Propaganda ein. Hier wird in der Tat Einiges geleistet. Die Amerikaner und Engländer fallen ja vorzüglich auf eine solche Art von Propaganda herein. Wir nehmen alle irgendwie zur Verfügung stehenden Kronzeugen der okkulten Weissagung als Mithelfer in Anspruch. Nostradamus muß wieder einmal daran glauben.
Dated 19 May 1942 concerning the use of Nostradamus's famous "Hister" quatrain
as displayed and translated in Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy, Discovery Channel
Diary excerpts
Source: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), pp. 48-49.
Jason Arnopp, Slipknot: Inside the Sickness, Behind the Masks (2001), ISBN 0091879337
“Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain
Somewhere in ear-shot for the story’s end.”
Responsibilities - Introduction http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1572/
Responsibilities (1914)
Reflex
1950 entry, quoted in Gayle Wurst, Voice and Vision: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (1999), p. 158
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
from "I've always felt like an exile" by Andrew Billen in The Times (30th May 2006)
In interviews etc., About love
Concepts
“What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.”
Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part...
Le Petit Prince (1943)
"Oppression", in Politics Of Reality – Essays In Feminist Theory (1983)
Like a Hurricane
Song lyrics, American Stars 'n Bars (1977)
Foreword to If I Were an Animal (1987) by Fleur Cowles ISBN 9780688061500
1980s