- Nov 07, 2020
Something Quotes
On possibility and ideas that don't fit a category.
These quotes use 'something' to point at ideas that resist easy labels: a genre dismissed as less than serious, alliances formed for practical reasons, and cultural needs that never fit a fixed category. For more, see our Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.
- Beach
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.
- Nov 07, 2020
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
- Parliament
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020