Some Things Quotes (page 20)

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• good
• now
• goodly

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away. Maya Angelou

• book
• boys
• mind

Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not. John Steinbeck

• thing
• seeing
• some people

Some people see things as they are and ask why. I see things as they can be and ask, why not? Robert Kennedy

• men
• life
• old

Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life intoare awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowingfor long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovelywarm still with the life of forgotten men who made them. David Herbert Lawrence

• dream
• men
• why

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. George Bernard Shaw

• dream
• men
• saying

Some men see things as they are and say "why." I dream things that never were and say "why not. Robert Kennedy

• prayer
• thinking
• people

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud. Gerald Vann

• people
• football
• game

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling. Vince Lombardi

• dream
• look
• why

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not? George Bernard Shaw

• people
• liking
• thing

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing. Ridley Scott

• funny
• people
• saying

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny. Don Rickles

• disappointment
• power
• greatness

Some people have inspired whole countries to great deeds because of the power of their vision. And so could he. Not because he dreams about marching hordes, or world domination, or an empire of a thousand years. Just because he thinks that everyone’s really decent underneath and would get along just fine if only they made the effort, and he believes that so strongly it burns like a flame which is bigger than he is. He’s got a dream and we’re all part of it, so that it shapes the world around... Terry Prachett

• moving
• women
• bad

Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting. It was bad enough when they were motionless; but when they started to move, and sympathetic vibrations set in, it was more than any warm-blooded male should be asked to take. Arthur C. Clarke

• life
• persistence
• dumb

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza Frank Herbert

• good
• saying
• training

Some of the men and older boys were trained in firing the cannon, but since there wasn’t any gun powder to spare for actually firing any more of the things, they made do with pushing wooden cartridges into the barrel and shouting, “Bang!” They got quite good at that, and were proud at the speed with which “Bang!” could be shouted. Daphne said she hoped the enemy would be trained to say “Aargh! Terry Prachett