Something One Quotes
58 quotes by 55 authors
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things…
— Sheena Iyengar
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
— Gertrude Stein
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Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
— Ingmar Bergman
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When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something…
— A. H. Almaas
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If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
— Michael Arndt
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The most recent studies, . . . both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic, something one is born with.
— Peter McWilliams
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There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make…
— Charles Simic
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I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist.…
— Mavis Gallant
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Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God.…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately…
— Carl Rogers
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
— Judith Butler
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Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.
— Bill Courtney
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Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
— Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of…
— Heinrich Heine
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You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy…
— Glenda Jackson
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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
— Richard Miller
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It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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