The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?
Jack LaLanne

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Thomas Merton

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Gilda Radner

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Blaise Pascal

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise Pascal

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
Noam Chomsky