When Something Quotes

418 quotes by 361 authors

I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get… — Ken Kesey
... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it. — Shannon Hale
We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather,… — Milton Friedman
Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault -… — Jodi Picoult
Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of… — Jeanne DuPrau
Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling?… — Mark Oliver Everett
When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for… — P.B. Kerr
This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again… — Vaclav Havel
Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the… — Amy Tan
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and… — Melina Marchetta
The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When… — James Redfield
In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have… — Betty Smith
Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that… — Kathi Appelt
Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody? — Neil Gaiman
If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make… — Barbara Kingsolver
When something seems â€˜the most obvious thing in the worldâ€™ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. — Bertolt Brecht
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,… — James A. Baldwin
When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be… — Dalai Lama
I donâ€™t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my… — Rainer Maria Rilke
When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe… — William Faulkner

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