Something They Quotes

#1. Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

Marianne Williamson

#2. Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

Stephen Colbert

#3. In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter - they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.

Eoin Colfer

#4. Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Robert Doisneau

#5. For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

Sheila Kitzinger

#6. The bank of lockers was down, the airlock door up. Human brains needed an answer, even if they had to make up something they knew was bullshit.

James S.A. Corey

#7. No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

Amanda Hale

#8. When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

Haruki Murakami

#9. The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

Golshifteh Farahani

#10. My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.

Michael Rispoli

#11. Philosophers are people who talk about something they don't understand and make you think it's your fault!1

Charles R. Swindoll

#12. If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first.

Henry Moore

#13. Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money and status.

Padma Lakshmi

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

Sara Shepard

#15. People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

E.W. Howe

#16. We like the fact people who watch the telecasts get excited about something they see.

Tim Finchem

#17. The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.

Denholm Elliott

#18. Forget politics, his father had always said. Just give 'em something they need, or they'll eat you alive.

Joe Schreiber

#19. I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.

John Waters

#20. The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think they already know about, or think they don't need to know about?

Sarah Stillman

#21. Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

Graham Linehan

#22. It's amazing what some scientist will do to invent something new or learn about something they don't understand. They're like psychos with a license.

Brandy Nacole

#23. I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Margaret Atwood

#24. Well, if that's how it happened, I don't like how Etain was never given a choice. Both Midhir and Eochaid should have been kicked in the marble bag for behaving like her hoo-ha was something they could buy and sell" ~ Granuaile

Kevin Hearne

#25. Maybe he's just lonely." "No way did he kidnap Jace off that roof because he's desperately in need of a bromance," said Isabelle. "He's planning something." They

Cassandra Clare

#26. Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

Flannery O'Connor

#27. Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

Scott Adams

#28. There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.

Jodi Picoult

#29. tend not to talk unless they have something to say and if they start talking about something they are interested in, they will often keep talking for a long time.

Harris Crenshaw

#30. Emotions, or feelings, have a function. They tell us something. They are a signal....Anger tells us that our boundaries have been violated. Much like a nation's radar defense system, angry feelings serve as an "early warning system" telling us we're in danger of being injured or controlled.

John Townsend

#31. I have seen people who find that grief gives them something they never had before, and no matter how terrible and real their loss they choose to hug that awfulness to them rather than push it away.

Iain M. Banks

#32. They have to take a chance, everything they do is taking a chance, but they feel so much safer when they take it on something they know to be ugly, vain and stupid.

Ayn Rand

#33. Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?

Pamela Anderson

#34. You are respected till you have something needed by them or something they are jealous of ...

Ranu Das

#35. The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

Eric Fischl

#36. Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

Herbie Hancock

#37. I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

Jimmy Cliff

#38. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

Lin Yutang

#39. Life-shaping institutions tend to start with an idea or revelation. They often become mostly about the preservation and expansion of authority, something they relinquish only with the greatest reluctance.

Ron Suskind

#40. One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed to remember it.

Ruth Downie

#41. Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

Vilem Flusser

#42. My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.

Kim Hyesoon

#43. I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and not to their own fear. Imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they prefer you dirty and smiling.

Ani DiFranco

#44. Got presents. Trip gave me a belt knife with a leather grip, claiming that all boys should have something they can hurt themselves with.

Patrick Rothfuss

#45. It's a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want to see, but at the same time make sure that when they show up for the movie, they're surprised by what they eventually get.

Joseph Kosinski

#46. I always tell people that they are really the critics. If people come three times a week to your restaurant they are the ones who find something they really love.

Wolfgang Puck

#47. You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#48. There's not much that I'm closed off about, and the universe gave me all that so I could help people feel like they don't have to be something they're not or feel like they have to fake happy. There's nothing worse than being fake happy.

Miley Cyrus

#49. I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

Joaquin Andujar

#50. I'm sure in the past I've said marriage is stupid. Marriage makes someone sign a contract promising something they really can't deliver. I'm sure I will again say marriage is dumb. But I can also imagine why it could be lovely. There's something beautiful about truly being there for another person.

Amy Schumer

#51. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

Mahatma Gandhi

#52. For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#53. When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

FKA Twigs

#54. I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

Harry Styles

#55. Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.

Bob Hoskins

#56. It's how the news becomes so powerful it doesn't need TV or newspapers. It exists in people's perceptions. It's something they invent, strong enough to seem real. It's the news without the media.

Don DeLillo

#57. It was he [Vincent] who helped me to accommodate my life in such a way that I can be at peace with myself. Serenity - this was the favorite word of both of them [Vincent and Theo], the something they considered the highest. Serenity - I have found it.

Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger

#58. Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events at the other, exactly like a cybernetic feedback system; yet many psychologists treat their work as something they do to a subject, not with the subject.

Karen Pryor

#59. The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something they want - and get from you.

John Caples

#60. Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

J.M. Barrie

#61. I've always felt a person's worth is equal to how much of themselves they willingly invest into something they know no one else sees value in.

Rebecca Timberlake

#62. Turns out brain injuries are hard to live with." He paused. "Or even just be around. People don't like when they're lives are upended by something they can't see." Caden

Tijan

#63. Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.

Jean Chatzky

#64. If there's one thing every man loves to do, it's telling a woman how to do something. They

Lisa Kleypas

#65. I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.

Darren Shan

#66. When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

Kevin Durant

#67. People will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.

Marco Arment

#68. I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

John Mayer

#69. You can't make someone do something they don't want to, but if you are kind about it, you can convince them to do the right thing, even if they are uncertain what that is.
--Jala, Healer to the House of Soris

D.G. Novak

#70. I almost stopped teaching entirely. The worst thing for me is contact with students. I like universities without students. And I especially hate American students. They think you owe them something. They come to you ... Office hours!

Slavoj Zizek

#71. Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."

David Fincher

#72. The fear of being uncovered, the fear of being made known for their wickedness is what is driving the ADL and that Synagogue of Satan, false Jews to pin the label on me as an anti-Semite. This is something they feel they must do in order to cover the evil that they have done or are a party to.

Louis Farrakhan

#73. No, you started this shit. I don't know how they do it in Rhode Island, but here in Jersey, bitches get stitches for talking shit and fucking with something they shouldn't.

L.D. Davis

#74. Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.

Bruce Molsky

#75. It's easy to confuse feelings and emotions for something they aren't, especially when eye contact is involved. I

Colleen Hoover

#76. People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Douglas Hurd

#77. Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

Craig Silvey

#78. My goal has always been to introduce other people to running. They might accomplish something they never thought they could.

Grete Waitz

#79. Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

Kate Mosse

#80. Her eyes were narrow, but when she really looked at something they suddenly opened wide: two dark eyes, never timid, brimming with curiosity. He

Haruki Murakami

#81. The only difference with wrestling is we're like a live performance. So we're feeding off the audience and if they do't like something, they can let us know immediately.

Adam Cole

#82. Yes, I sell people things they don't need. I can't, however, sell them something they don't want. Even with advertising. Even if I were of a mind to.

John O'Toole

#83. One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

Sam Horn

#84. Most of the people who fail in what they want to accomplish do so because they underestimate who they are. When they don't believe they can succeed at something, they have little chance.

Elizabeth Bear

#85. I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

Stephen Rea

#86. When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.

Bill Hader

#87. All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

Ludwig Von Mises

#88. Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen

#89. Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.

Patton Oswalt

#90. What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

Doris Lessing

#91. Whenever I perform I try to connect with the crowd and give off energy so when they walk away from the show its remarkable and its something they talk about it, like 'damn I cant wait to come back to my show.'

G-Eazy

#92. You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to them rather than something they are making every moment with every thought.

Andrew Hussie

#93. King consistently argued that rich Western nations had moral and political responsibilities to redress global poverty, something they would never do without world disarmament.

Thomas F. Jackson

#94. My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

Fay Weldon

#95. I lay in bed and thought about how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn't have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.

Jack Ketchum

#96. My mother didn't believe in germs but I did. Germs are something they made up to distract people from what they should really be worried about, she said. Germs are natural. It's the things people do you have to worry about.

Joyce Maynard

#97. When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph to their memories. That interplay is where a picture comes alive and grows into something. They function like invitations.

Jason Fulford

#98. Ninety percent of the people don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they're not aware that it's the body, something they should be in tune with.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#99. She could be anybody and she could pretend to be whomever she wants to be. With social media and internet communications, everything is virtual. Social media is full of fake and sick people deceiving each other and fantasizing to be something they are not.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#100. I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.

Robin Tunney