Something Else Quotes
1321 quotes by 1056 authors
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That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?
— Jay Asher
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for…
— Charles Bukowski
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
— Ann Voskamp
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Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential,…
— Italo Calvino
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He tilted his head to the side, still watching me in that same, disconcerting way. “Some things are true, drunk or sober. You should know…
— Richelle Mead
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You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try…
— Audrey Hepburn
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Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that…
— Baruch Spinoza
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The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she…
— Philip Pullman
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In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it…
— Joan Didion
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That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy,…
— David Levithan
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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
— John Irving
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Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting…
— Laini Taylor
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You’re the most experienced investigator I’ve got who’s not tied up in something, and I can’t ask the Consort to look look into it, because…
— Ilona Andrews
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...the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none…
— David Levithan
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My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters…
— Ian Mcewan
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But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit…
— Chuck Klosterman
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You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that…
— Julian Barnes
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