Something Quotes

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.