Something Quotes - page 4

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. (Steve Jobs)

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Joseph Addison

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Chuck Palahniuk

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

Norman Rockwell

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

Paddy Ashdown

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Leon Trotsky

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Bertrand Russell

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. (Woodrow Wilson)

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

Howard Stern

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

F. H. Bradley

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

José Saramago

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

William F. Buckley

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

John Wayne

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Ray Bradbury

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. (Clint Eastwood)

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

Clint Eastwood

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

Helen Rowland

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

George Steiner

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