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Something Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not…
- Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear…
- The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after…
- There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,…
- We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is…
- Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead…
- Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about…
- When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has…
- ... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic…
- The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said?…
- If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee…
- Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the…
- The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after…
- While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together…
- Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder…
- Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to…
More Something Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle