Something In Quotes

#1. I'm really tired of people saying what is lost in translation. Look at what you gain. You gain three universes worth of books. It's worth it to lose something in translation, if you can get a hundred more texts that are going to change your life.

Arshia Sattar

#2. There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Saint Augustine

#3. Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Publilius Syrus

#4. Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes

Meg Rosoff

#5. We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few.

Mortimer J. Adler

#6. I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

Nick Cave

#7. I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

J. C. Watts

#8. Never stand on one spot, always be doing something in line with your calling

Sunday Adelaja

#9. There's something in this particular practice that can teach us Cristians a powerful lesson, that we may see so vividly our own wretched state, that it's not this world we should cherish but the promise of the next.

Joseph Boyden

#10. Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures.

Orly Taitz

#11. Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

Antonio Damasio

#12. Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

John Wooden

#13. Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Walter Lord

#14. Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#15. It is important in life not to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once. If you want something in life, reach out and grab it.

Christopher McCandless

#16. Tact is the ability to say something in a way that makes the other person feel less threatened or defensive and more open to you and your ideas.

Bob Burg

#17. I try to find something in everyone that I play - even the most heinous ones. You have to find something that is real and vulnerable about everything that you play.

Milo Ventimiglia

#18. There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

Terry Eagleton

#19. Her smile is like a summer storm - something in between calm and dangerous.

Laura Miller

#20. It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

Gale Anne Hurd

#21. Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go. Something in a rock-and-roll song about wanting the girl, the car, the place to stand and be. Oh please God can you dig it.

Stephen King

#22. I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

Kevin McKidd

#23. One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

Seth Godin

#24. To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.

Jack Hyles

#25. I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

Dagmara Dominczyk

#26. Just because no one's managed something in the past, doesn't mean the future's lost.

Sarah Crossan

#27. Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph

#28. She did not know yet that splendor is something in the heart; at the moment when she realized that and melted into the passion of the universe he could take her without question or regret.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#29. I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial reasons to put something in that endangers our national security. You just can't do that.

Tom Clancy

#30. I have something in my shoes--besides my feet.

K.L. Zolnoski

#31. They say you were something in those formative years.

Tori Amos

#32. There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.

Aleksandar Hemon

#33. Sometimes she makes you very sad....she touches something in you, and you've begun to touch back. - Bob Ballard

Charles Pellegrino

#34. Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

Giada De Laurentiis

#35. If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'

Tony Blair

#36. Between us, I sensed a different vibe than the last time we'd met, something in the atmosphere was a little off.

Haruki Murakami

#37. Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.

Bryan Batt

#38. No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

Vincente Minnelli

#39. Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

C.S. Lewis

#40. She nodded, jotting something in her notebook.
You're writing that down? Has the interview started?
Lee, whenever you're talking to a reporter, you're being interviewed.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#41. What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.

Colin Farrell

#42. People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#43. Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

John Lloyd Young

#44. I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

Charlize Theron

#45. It was clear then, so painfully clear, that people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along.

Catherine Lacey

#46. Rumer Willis was having a great time at the opening of a club when her twin walked in, also known as her dad, Bruce Willis. How embarrassing for her, she's out with her friends and they're like, 'Umm, Rumer, I think your dad put something in my drink.'

Chelsea Handler

#47. No matter our circumstances, no matter our challenges or trials, there is something in each day to embrace and cherish. There is something in each day that can bring gratitude and joy if only we will see and appreciate it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#48. I always need a support team, even at Donna Karan. I like collaborating. There is something in collaboration that is wonderful.

Donna Karan

#49. I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something in me gave an answer and was the receiver of those distant calls from worlds far above.

Hermann Hesse

#50. I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.

Minor White

#51. I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.

David Anders

#52. In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.

Mason Cooley

#53. I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

Stevie Wonder

#54. You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there.

Eckhart Tolle

#55. Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

Mike Crapo

#56. Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Gore Vidal

#57. The only person that seen something in me was Punch, and probably Ab-Soul. Ab-Soul and Punch was the two niggas that was like "Yeah, Q gon be one of them niggas. Watch." I don't know how they knew but they knew.

Schoolboy Q

#58. I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you've got something you want, and that person who has it wants something in return, it quite literally becomes your job to find whatever it is that they want.

Reid Scott

#59. The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

Robert Burns

#60. Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to make the film, that's not such a stretch. But when you're doing plays like 'Proof,' it's just five people or something in the thing, and it gets to be a really difficult re-conception.

John Patrick Shanley

#61. When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#62. You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.

Agnes Varda

#63. I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.

Paul Weller

#64. Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.

Jeff Lindsay

#65. Something in truth lay dead between them - the love she had killed in him and could no longer call to life. But something lived between them also, and leaped up in her like an imperishable flame: it was the love his love had kindled, the passion of her soul for his.

Edith Wharton

#66. It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#67. It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball.

Barry Bonds

#68. I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.

Bobby Bonilla

#69. There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house.

Ray Bradbury

#70. Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.

Stephen Few

#71. There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

Conrad Veidt

#72. I am not good. Something in Faith's head broke free, beating black wings into the sky. Nobody good could feel what I feel. I am wicked and deceitful and full of rage. I cannot be saved. She did not feel hot or helpless any more. She felt the way snakes looked when they moved.

Frances Hardinge

#73. I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

Robert Caro

#74. If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.

Ellie Goulding

#75. You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.

Damian Barr

#76. There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#77. An end to my fear of being alone. An end to a soul's solitude, when death at last arrives. There is something in that, something in there, that comforts. Hood,

Steven Erikson

#78. You don't just become something in life. You evolve and grow; otherwise you get bored and remain stagnant.

Anthea Syrokou

#79. Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

Wayne Dyer

#80. The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

Henri Bergson

#81. If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

Robert Breault

#82. The best prize life has to offer is not a chance to work hard and be something in the community. It is the perfume of God that resides within you.

Enock Maregesi

#83. Monk can everyone become, but monk is something in believing strongly in god.

Deyth Banger

#84. I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Jeffrey Combs

#85. Jeb suddenly looked right at me, and something in those flinty eyes made me want to back away, snarling. "You don't mind, do you girl?"
"Not at all," I replied, staring him down, "if you ask me nicely!

Julie Kagawa

#86. If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Cardinal Richelieu

#87. For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#88. Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

Jon Favreau

#89. My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.

Ali Larter

#90. Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.

Elizabeth Scott

#91. If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.

David Cottrell

#92. I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays ...

Nora Ephron

#93. I'm a huge fan of Asian cooking in general. I love shabu shabu, and I love hibachi. It's kind of like an experience as opposed to just having something in front of you and you eating it.

Kim Shaw

#94. You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects, some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.

Garrett Hardin

#95. I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.

Stacie Orrico

#96. The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.

Jonathan Haidt

#97. There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not always consuming, creating, building. There's something inside of us that wants desperately to stop and experience and just be
not just always do.

Elizabeth Lesser

#98. When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

Ralph W. Sockman

#99. I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

Jiah Khan

#100. Prudence tried to hold him back, grip him by the sleeve, but, as everyone knows, or should know, prudence is only of any use when it is trying to conserve something in which we are no longer interested.

Jose Saramago