All Quotes

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
‐‐ John Grierson

Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.
‐‐ Kevin DeYoung

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
‐‐ George Vecsey

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
‐‐ Patricia Ireland

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we've heard, and mourn the loss, even though we're spared what the close-loved ones must endure - the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life.
‐‐ Mimi Kennedy

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, 'Have a nice day' or even have one. To be honest, I've never heard a Jew say that. We're just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries.
‐‐ Gene Saks

Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.
‐‐ Sandra Tsing Loh

Some of us talk about other people and what they do and la la la. But I'm not that person.
‐‐ Mariah Carey

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
‐‐ Lisa See

Some of you guys are going to boo, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't like dogs.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.
‐‐ Kim Campbell

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.
‐‐ Lilly Ledbetter

Some of you may remember me as the 'Doritos Girl' from that Super Bowl commercial a while back, but I've been lucky enough to have gotten a few more credits under my belt since then!
‐‐ Ali Landry

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
‐‐ Charles Van Doren

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
‐‐ Clarence Darrow

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your life grieving over it. The world still needs your talents. It needs your contribution.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
‐‐ Maya Lin

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be safe.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
‐‐ Gary Bauer

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
‐‐ Frank Knox

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
‐‐ Henri Bergson

Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.
‐‐ David Leslie

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.
‐‐ Pedro Martinez

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
‐‐ David R. Brower

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
‐‐ Ludwig Quidde

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.
‐‐ Amy Chua

Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren't getting the pay they deserve. While I don't expect the government to solve all these problems, I do want leaders who care about these things and do what they can to help.
‐‐ Chrissy Teigen

Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.
‐‐ Paul Prudhomme

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.
‐‐ Domenico Dolce

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
‐‐ Bell Hooks

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos coming down the pike and they think they're too old to learn all this new stuff. But eventually they begin to realize, 'Hey, some of this stuff is useful.'
‐‐ Michio Kaku

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.
‐‐ Peter Hollingworth

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.
‐‐ James Dyson

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
‐‐ Tori Amos