S Quotes
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“Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig.”
“Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is he’s called the Stig.”
“Some say his droppings have been found as far north as York, and that he has a full size tattoo of his face, on his face. All we know is he’s called the Stig.”
“Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.”
“Some say honesty is the best policy. I believe lying to yourself is a form of self-preservation.”
“Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.”
“Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.”
“Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.”
“Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.”
“Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all.”
Source: Heartless
“Some say it's about the journey and some say it's about the destination. But for him it was the purpose.”
Source: The Artist
“Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul.”
“Some say Karma is a bitch. It all comes back to you, eventually. If this world can be boiled down to two truths. It would be the second law of thermodynamics (entropy) and the law of action and reaction (Karma). Well, if Karma really makes up the fabric of this Universe, if it is really a bitch, then prove it in this life itself! Why wait for reincarnation? Do you think I would be me once I die and transition to another body? No! What makes me, me, are my memories.”
Source: The World's Most Frustrated Man
“Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.”
“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
Source: A Judgement In Stone
“Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.”
“Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.”
“Some say loyalty inspires boundless hope. And while that may be, there is a catch. True loyalty takes years to build... and only seconds to destroy.”
“Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.”
Source: The poems of John Milton
“Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.”
“Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.”
“Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worlds.”
Source: Cuddy
“Some say patience is a virtue,' his voice echoed back to me.
'Some deserve a punch in the face,' I muttered, but I fell silent.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“Some say revenge is sin.
Others say it's a relief.”
“Some say revenge is sweet, but I differ with that assessment.
Revenge has a slow pungent flavor; it builds up from the deepest bitterness. It requires time for its stale taste to wither and evolve into a richer palatable savor. And once acquired, its pleasant aftertaste turns ineludible, enticing, as its pure succulence enfolds and blinds our senses into begging for more…”
Source: Written in Blood
“Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“Some say secularism is in their blood, some say liberty, all the while being the posterboys of persecution.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!”
“Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.”
“Some say tawhid,
some say advaita,
some say ubuntu,
some say divinidad.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Some say that a garden just grows from seeds, but we think it grows from trying and failing and trying again. A garden is hard work, but so is most of the good, important stuff in life.”
Source: We Are the Gardeners
“Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.”
“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)”
Source: A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
“Some say that by fighting the terrorists abroad since September the 11th, we only stir up a hornets' nest. But the terrorists who struck that day were stirred up already. If America were not fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere, what would these thousands of killers do - suddenly begin leading productive lives of service and charity? ... We are dealing here with killers who have made the death of Americans the calling of their lives.”
“Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.”
“Some say that connections between people are just a matter of fate, and I’m grateful that I’ve connected with so many fans in this lifetime.”
“Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.”
“Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi”
“Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.”
Source: An Introduction to Psychology
“Some say that fame is a fleeting thing. Well, it has clung to me tenaciously, like gum stuck to the sidewalk, blackened from being stepped on a thousand times. I haven't been able to shake it, no matter what.
Some also say fame is shallow. That's easy to say when you haven't spent your childhood being passed from family to family, scorned and discarded because of a curse that made you break whatever you touched.
Fame is like a cheeseburger. It might not be the best or most healthy thing to have, but it will still fill you up. You don't really care how healthy something is when you've been without for so long. Like a cheeseburger, fame fills a need, and it tastes so good going down.
It isn't until years later that you realize what it has done to your heart.”
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
“Some say that gleams of a remoter world
Visit the soul in sleep, that death is slumber,
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
Of those who wake and live.”
“Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.”
“Some say that Homosexuals are an obamination,
Disney says that Stitch is an Obamiation, I say that the United States Government is the True Obamiation.”
“Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.”
“Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.”
Source: Someone Knows My Name: A Novel
“Some say that if you look deep into a cat's eyes you will see the world of the fairies.”
“Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.”
Source: The folly of Eustace: and other stories