A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Give somebody a gold star - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The person who you're with most in life is yourself
and if you don't like yourself,
you're always with somebody you don't like.
- Marc S. Lewis
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller
Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it?
But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.
- Osho
Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
Confucius might have said:
Once frightened, twice smelly in armpit.
- Anonymous humor
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
The God of Children and Fools:
There once was a man way up high,
who sat on his chair in the sky.
he called down to fool us,
and said he would rule us,
until we woke up bye and bye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
- Abraham Lincoln
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein
The whole world is a cyclone.
But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears.
This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.
- Osho
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
We come this way but once.
We can either tiptoe through life
and hope we get to death without being badly bruised
or we can live a full, complete life achieving
our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
- Bob Proctor
All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
If you do something once,
people will call it an accident.
If you do it twice, t
hey call it a coincidence.
But do it a third time, and
you've just proven a natural law.
- Grace Hopper
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
My dream is of a place and a time where America
will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment,
failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer,
I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison
We would like to live as we once lived,
but history will not permit it.
- John F. Kennedy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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