There is something about a rainbow
that just can't be ignored.
Whether spectacle of nature or covenant,
no two rainbows are ever the same,
and each one is always breath-taking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't care whose fault this was, just get it sorted!
And could someone please bring me something deep fat fried
and smothered in chocolate.
- the movie Shrek 2
Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of ...
about me not listening to her, or something.
I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
- the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994)
I feel the need to express something,
but I don't know what it is I want to express.
- the movie Interiors
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
Praying is important when you wake up
at two o'clock in the morning
feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory'
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov
Normal is not something to aspire to,
it's something to get away from.
- Jodie Foster
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
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
In soloing - as in other activities -
it is far easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
- Amelia Earhart
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Guilt for being rich,
and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough
and you have to go and get shot or something.
- John Lennon
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one Year and out the other.
- Anonymous
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -
look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity,
and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus
could be intended for enjoyment.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University
and learned within 24 hours to be ready
to speak at the drop of a hat,
and I learned something more, the trustees were expected
to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Don't live down to expectations.
Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.
But deep down below the surface of the average conscience
a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
- Carl Jung
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Our desires always disappoint us;
for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction,
yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- Elbert Hubbard
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
You can't do anything about the length of your life,
but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Those who are dedicated to a life of wisdom
understand that the impulse to blame
something or someone is foolishness,
that there is nothing to be gained in blaming,
whether it be others or oneself.
- Epictetus
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Do something Outrageous - just because you want to.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worrying is like a rocking chair,
it gives you something to do,
but it gets you nowhere.
- Glenn Turner
Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
- Marion Wright Edelman
Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer
Today, try something you have never tried before.
Perhaps just a food that is new to you -
perhaps a whole new way of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Existence needs you.
Without you, something will be missing
in existence and nobody can replace it.
Thats what gives you dignity,
that the whole existence will miss you.
- Osho
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always question WHY you are doing something.
Is it a free-will gift or an obligation?
That which is done out of a feeling of obligation
is unworkable as a substitute for a gift.
Obligation creates a feeling of resentment on your part,
and evokes resentment rather than gratitude
on the part of the recipient.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgement that something else
is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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