S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.”
“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.”
“Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.”
“Some people would say I've made it now.”
“Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.”
“Some people would say we're already under attack by aliens - not space aliens, but illegal aliens.”
“Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.”
“Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.”
“Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead.”
“Some people wouldn't say I coached in the National Football League. I coached with the Raiders, right?”
“Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.”
“Some people write letters, in the library.”
Source: In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
“Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.”
“Some people you can never make happy no matter how hard you try.”
Source: Dear Aaron
“Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more.”
Source: Acceleration
“Some people you cannot trust precisely because they mean well.”
“Some people you don't give up on. Not because you can tell what they'll be or what will happen. Not because of that. It's because something inside you insists that you shouldn't---something knows more or knows better, stubbornly holds its ground, even while the the rest of the world and a million statistics and your own rational brain buzzes around you, chanting that you're a fool. And maybe they're right. Maybe you ARE a fool. But what if you're not? Can you give up without knowing if that voice was right all along? Where's the peace in that?”
“Some people you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em.”
“Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You needed to grab their hair and clutch it like a drowner so they would pull you into their midst. Otherwise they, walking casually down the street towards you, almost about to wave, would leap over a wall and be gone for months.”
“Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.”
Source: After Forever Ends
“Some people you meet for the first time, and then you get to know them. Then there are the very few that you get to meet for the first time and instantly recognize.”
“Some people you meet in life are so unique that you cant find another version of them, so better tie with them the moment of your life so you never regret”
Source: A girl, a stolen camera and a borrowed bike : The tale of a journey
“Some people you’re not meant to get over.”
“Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.”
“Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.”
“Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes - The Short Stories (Book 2): The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Part 2), His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.”
Source: Gaudy Night
“Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them.”
Source: If A Tree Falls At Lunch Break
“Some people's joints articulate in a manner that allows them to benefit greatly from squats; others may not benefit at all. If you're not too tall and have short limbs, it may be the best exercise for you, but if you're tall with long legs, it might be both ineffective and dangerous.I was stubbornly faithful to squats for years until I finally realized they were not well-suited for my body structure. After I switched tomore muscle-intensive movements, my gains in leg size were astounding.”
“Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.”
Source: Lucy Gayheart
“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.”
“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.”
“Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.”
“Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.”
Source: God's Psychiatry: Healing for the Troubled Heart and Spirit
“Some people's minds we're not going to change. But if we can't, we need to bring more positive voices into the discussion.”
“Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.”
Source: Happy Days
“Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.”
“Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation.”
“Some people's weight loss is impeded by an impaired thyroid. So I think it's worth testing that at your next physical exam. If it's off, sometimes, that can be caused by excess metals, such as mercury or cadmium. A qualified M.D. can help you cleanse your body of those.”
“Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.”
Source: Pnin
“Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.”
“Some people, I think, think that because I don't take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, that I frown upon modeling or think it's stupid. I don't at all. This is my life. I would be nothing without this. But I really don't take it seriously.”
“Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.”
Source: Novels, 1944-1953
“Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?”
“Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re-examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.”
“Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.”
“Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.”