Quotes of: Stand-for-something Keyword

Something real, cool, and solid, lies before you something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto.

Shirley

Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

Monster High

But this girl—She reminded me of what it was like to believe in something. Her hope was naïve, but it was real, and I hadn’t felt something real in years. Nothing positive anyways. (Eric)

Minutes Before Sunset

When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko

Magic Street

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

The Moviegoer

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

Naked Empire

It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million." "How many words are in the English language?" "Not the point.

A Little Something Different

In the words of Lynne McTaggart: "Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

The Lost Symbol

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

A Lifelong Love: What If Marriage Is about More Than Just Staying Together?

Ben let a slow smile play over his face. He loved this part. It always felt like revealing to a disbeliever that he had magical powers or something.

Something Like Summer

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface...

Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories

Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.

A Shimmer of Something: Lean Stories of Spiritual Substance

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

Stotan!

... I felt that I was not penetrating to the full depth of my impression, that something more lay behind that mobility, that luminosity, something which they seemed at once to contain and to conceal.

Swann's Way

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at al...

Studies in Words

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Père Goriot

If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust

The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret