Somehow Quotes
2334 quotes by 1749 authors
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Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that…
— George Saunders
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
— Kate DiCamillo
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I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.
— Balthus
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Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to…
— Noah Levine
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He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President,…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either…
— Sri Chinmoy
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It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.
— Chris Ware
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They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to…
— Pat Buchanan
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And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the…
— Penelope Lively
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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
— Jack Kornfield
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The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through…
— Thomas Merton
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Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other…
— William Stringfellow
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America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.
— Kent Conrad
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
— Warren E. Burger
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Christianity is Christ because there isn't anything else. There is no atonement that somehow can be detached from who the Lord Jesus is. There is…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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The finality of Christs redemption for us is intimately tied to the finality of his revelation to us. . . . If we say revelation…
— Kevin DeYoung
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I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into…
— Lisa See
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I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people…
— Lisa Marie Presley
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You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and…
— James Salter
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I use the word 'fat'. I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or…
— George Carlin
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