Something One Quotes

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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private,… — Diane Duane
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the… — Pablo Picasso
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines. — Andre Gide
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that… — Daley Thompson
One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to… — Chogyam Trungpa
The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. — Michael J. Fox
We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a… — Tony Judt
I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any… — Brittany Murphy
I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you… — Grover Norquist
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one… — Thomas Szasz
What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about. — Diana Vreeland
The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an… — Joan Bauer
In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to KNOW something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to BECOME something...The gospel… — Dallin H. Oaks
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all. — Peter Drucker
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the… — Julio Cortazar
A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash… — Zadie Smith
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a… — P.G. Wodehouse

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