S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Some things are good, some middling, more bad.”
“Some things are hard to let go of.”
Source: Allegiant Collector's Edition
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Some things are impossible.”
“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.”
Source: The Handbook of Epictetus
“Some things are just better left unsaid.”
“Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.”
“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.”
Source: Sleeper's Run
“Some things are just perfect, even when they don't make any sense”
“Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.”
“Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Some things are meant to be and if it was, you will know it.”
“Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“some things are more beautiful when they've been broken.”
Source: Our Chemical Hearts
“Some things are more important than safety.”
“Some things are more important that life itself”
“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
“Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.”
“Some things are not meant for giving away.”
Source: Pittown
“Some things are not meant to be kept forever... You know you have to stop and let go when things aren't going right, and everything you do is unappreciated. Remember what batman said? 'it is wiser to be alone but happy... than with somebody who does nothing while you're doing everything...'”
“Some things are not said or done for a reason. Even you justify doing them or saying them because it suits your narrative. The repercussions of doing those things or saying them it is still the same. We think we have bad luck only to find out. It is the consequence of our actions. We make bad decisions and do bad things. Choose to do right all the time or every time you get a chance.”
“Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.”
Source: Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
“Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.”
“Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.”
“Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.”
“Some things are out of our control. Sometimes, terrible things happen and there is not a damned thing we can do to stop them. But here she was, given the chance to make a difference.”
“Some things are plain hard, and by that nature inescapably attractive to creatives, but not necessarily to the budget holders. The impossible, the undone, the "unhappened" - these are where creative and scientific minds endeavor to plant the first footprint in the dust.”
“Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything.”
Source: Shopaholic to the Rescue
“Some things are private, Ethan. Even for grown-ups.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“Some things are private. Some things needed to be said, even when the person who needed to hear them couldn’t hear anything. Ever again.”
“Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.”
“Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them”
Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series
“Some things are sent to test us. Clearly you must be good at problem solving if you are being set tough exams.”
“Some things are simply true no matter how much the world changes.”
Source: The Women
“Some things are so bad or painful that you’d wish them on your worst enemy.”
“Some things are so good or pleasurable that you wouldn’t wish them on your worst enemy.”
“Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them too many times in your head, and when you find yourself on that longed-for moonlit path, it seems unreal but still, somehow, familiar. You dreamed of it, of course; you know it like a memory.”
Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel
“Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't.”
Source: Zazen
“Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.”
“Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.”
Source: Killosophy
“Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.”
Source: Rome wasn't burned in a day: the mischief of language
“Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.”
“Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.”
Source: Vortex
“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions too huge to be felt.”
Source: The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.”
“Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.”
“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
“Some things are too terrible to be true.”
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, spluttering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to grasp at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realisation dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
Source: The Secret History
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”