Some Quotes

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

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

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.

Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Some people think technology has the answers.