
Do real life people actually fall in love
with the idea of being in love?
Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.
Someone wants desperately to have
the husband or wife of their dreams.
They visualize the vine-covered cottage
with the white picket fence.
They choose the colors for the nursery.
They design all the aspects of their married life.
A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some are reputed sick and some are not.
It often happens that the sicker man
is the nurse to the sounder.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing.
- Anonymous
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have lost friends, some by death ...
others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot.
Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
- John F. Kennedy
We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
Some days you're the dog,
and some days you're the hydrant.
- Anonymous
Some days just go to Hell faster than others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does
not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton,
they laughed at the Wright brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan
When someone has a strong intuitive connection,
Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma,
some past connection.
- Richard Gere
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Today is a day to cover your best weapons in velvet.
Go gently into the world.
Hold your anger.
Keep your competitive spirit in check.
Some day you will need your fierce weapons,
but not today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike.
Each has their suffering.
Some suffer too much, others too little.
- The Buddha
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some'll rob you with a six gun,
Some with a fountain pen.
- Woody Guthrie
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One strength of the communist system of the East
is that it has some of the character of a religion
and inspires the emotions of a religion.
- Albert Einstein
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
God gives some more than others
because some accept more than others.
- Ernest Holmes
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until
we have been stuck, incapacitated,
or blown off course for awhile.
- David Whyte
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
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting
on his past actions and their motives -
of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Charles Darwin
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other.
To catch each other when we falter.
To encourage each other when we lose heart.
Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.
- Hilary Clinton
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a continuity always and always.
There is no final destination it is going towards.
Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life,
not reaching to some point,
no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage,
moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
- Osho
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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