Something Quotes

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

I've never tried to be something I'm not.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.