Something Different Quotes
359 quotes by 329 authors
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She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as…
— Nicholas Sparks
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For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.
— John Cheever
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When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We…
— June Jordan
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The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something…
— Donald Miller
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On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove…
— Wendy Cope
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Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that…
— Juliet Marillier
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One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong…
— Daniel Handler
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It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.
— Lisa Unger
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And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its…
— Paul Brunton
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The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?
— Jodi Picoult
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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…
— Milan Kundera
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the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had,…
— Sara Zarr
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Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances…
— George Packer
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Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task…
— Peter Drucker
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It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're…
— Terry Pratchett
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I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've had…
— Joss Whedon
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder.…
— Julian Barnes
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