Somehow Quotes
2334 quotes by 1683 authors
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Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness,…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's…
— Chuck Klosterman
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…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other…
— Alice Hoffman
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What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,'…
— N. T. Wright
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The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the…
— Dave Barry
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I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and…
— Anne Lamott
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of…
— Voltaire
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to…
— Elizabeth Marie Pope
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There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?'…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.
— Neil Gaiman
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Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you…
— Jon Stewart
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... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"…
— Edward Said
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When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way — a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow…
— Seraphim Rose
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It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming…
— Nicholas Sparks
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All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.
— Nicholas Sparks
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When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and…
— Graham Greene
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