Quotes with somehow

  • For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
  • When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
  • Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
  • We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
  • A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
  • Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
  • I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
  • You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
  • Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
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  • Earl Nightingale A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bill Gates About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
    Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in Gates, Buffett a bit bearish CNET News (2 July 1998)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Barack Obama Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bret Harte An hour ago, a Star was falling. A star? There's nothing strange in that. No, nothing; but above the thicket, Somehow it seemed to me that God Somewhere had just relieved a picket.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Martin Luther King And I believe it because somehow the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
    Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Joan Didion Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.
    Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Albert J. Nock As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Peggy Noonan Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Bai Ling But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • John Maynard Keynes Capitalism is the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Bob Woodward Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Brenda Song Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Barbara Jordan Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. 'We the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But, when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But, through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, t
    Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bob Newhart For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Aeschylus For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • John Osborne Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Henry James I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Vanessa Williams I am not a lesbian and I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make people believe me.
    Vanessa Williams
     
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