Something Quotes - page 100

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change. (Milan Kundera)
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo. View quote
Milan Kundera
Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working. View quote
Marc Chagall
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former. View quote
Isaac Newton
Good communication is not just data transfer. You need to show people something that addresses their anxieties, that accepts their anger, that is credible in a very gut-level sense, and that evokes faith in the vision. View quote
John Kotter
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. View quote
Albert Einstein
Never memorize something that you can look up. View quote
Albert Einstein
Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. View quote
Albert Einstein
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. View quote
John Burroughs
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl. View quote
Barbara Stanwyck
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious! View quote
Bill Bailey
Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together. (Chris Matthews)
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid. View quote
Howard Hodgkin
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness. View quote
Peter Wessel Zapffe
The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual. View quote
Richard Nixon