S Quotes
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“Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.”
“Some travellers are apt to advance more than is perhaps strictly true; if any of the company entertain a doubt of my veracity, I shall only say to such, I pity their want of faith, and must request they will take leave before I begin the second part of my adventures, which are as strictly founded in fact as those I have already related.”
Source: Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
“Some treatments, however, seemed to be based on obscure superstitions rather than therapeutic traditions, and they were as contrary to common sense as they were to any notions of medical science.”
Source: Shantaram
“Some trees are too deeply rooted to move ... And if they are uprooted, they will die.”
“Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.”
“Some trees yield fruit. No tree grows piano music, and that’s exactly the kind of vegetable that goes best with dinner.”
Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
“Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.”
“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”
“Some tribes maintain blood quantum, such as once-quarter proven blood degree from their tribe. Even so-called purely ‘descendancy’ tribes such as the Five Tribes with no blood quantum requirement jealously guard some proven, documentary link by blood to distant ancestors. More than any single BIA requirement, however, this criterion has proven troublesome for southeastern groups because of its reliance on on-Indian records and the confused (and confusing) nature of surviving documents.”
Source: Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment
“Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.”
Source: Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, etc. [With plates and a map.]
“Some trick us with talk of magic,
Others trick us with intellect.
Either way we remain ever so afraid,
Never to be our own President elect.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.”
“some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our universe on its way to the floor. Splat!”
“Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.”
“Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.”
“Some truce," Daniel said, "Eighteen days of others trying to kill her.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“Some Trumpsters asked me if it was really a problem that Trump doesn't have money to run commercials now. And I said he doesn't have the money, just doesn't have the money. "That's not good. He needs to be running commercials."”
“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”
“Some truth has no nourishment in it.”
“Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.”
Source: Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
“Some truths are seen better through tears.”
“Some truths are so terrible they must remain unspoken. Because if you speak them aloud, you can never take them back. They grow roots. They stay and they fester.”
Source: Love Drips Red on Dunwich End: A horror anthology
“Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.”
Source: Raven's Strike
“Some truths aren’t buried. They’re just waiting for the silence to get loud enough to hear them”
“Some truths aren’t meant to be healed. Just carried.”
“Some truths arrive not with thunder, but with a whisper persistent as rain.”
“Some truths arrive slowly, like fog rolling in. You don’t see them all at once, but they change everything you thought was solid.”
“Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Some truths don't free you. They haunt you until silence becomes your only escape.”
Source: The Whisper Between Us
“Some truths don’t need to be spoken — they echo in silence, between the words we never dared to say.”
Source: GRAY WORDS: The Silence Between Two Hearts: Emotional / Literary Fiction
“Some truths don’t shout. They whisper — and still echo for years.”
Source: Silent Words: A Visual Meditation on Stillness and Presence
“Some truths hit slow. Some goodbyes hurt longer. Some wounds never fully heal. Some conversations stay unfinished. Some thoughts stay thoughts. Some relationships hurt more than they heal… and we wait for closure that never comes. But this is life in its purest form, messy, unpredictable, and brutally honest. And this is how life teaches us that we don’t get to control how people love us, how they leave, or how they change. All we can control is how we heal after the hurt and how we rise after the fall.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Some truths need to be said out loud before they can be believed”
Source: When the Moon is Low
“Some truths only tragedy can teach. The first one I learned is that when people acknowledge your pain, they want your pain to acknowledge them back. They need to witness it in real time, or else you're not doing your part.”
Source: Legendborn
“Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.”
“some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know.”
Source: The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
“Some try to tell themselves that they tried to make changes from within the system the best they could. Unfortunately, however, anyone who has had the chance of working inside brutal, unjust, and systematically racist and oppressive institutions knows that trying to make changes from within is not only a myth, but more likely than not, the huge, sophisticated and unjust institutions will change you to conform to their agenda rather than the other way around. At best, if one tries to make changes or challenges brutal workplaces, one would either lose their job, or – if lucky enough – would simply remain static and never advance in their job or pay. In other words, they will remain poor and powerless, which, by definition, significantly limits any possibility for challenging, let alone, changing such institutions or corporations from within.”
“Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can't trust over night.”
“Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.”
“Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
“Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings about how the characters should act. When the scriptwriters go slightly wrong, when they make the character make a left turn that he or she wouldn't do, you know enough about the characters to say, "No, that's not what she would do there. That's wrong." You can actually argue with a TV show in a way that you can't do as much with movie - you inhabit a TV show in the way you inhabit a novel.”
“Some twenty years after the end of the war with Japan a freighter arrived in Brooklyn with the largest collection of Japanese pornography ever assembled in a Western tongue. The owner of the collection, a huge, smiling fat man named Geraty, presented a passport to customs that showed he was a native-born American about as old as the century, an exile who had left the United States nearly four decades before. The collection contained all the pornographic works written in Japan during the last three hundred and fifty years, or since the time when Japan first closed itself to the West.”
Source: Quin's Shanghai Circus
“Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.”
“Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.”
“Some types of growth are actually types of decay.”
Source: The Mourning Report
“Some types of love were quieter than others.”
Source: Girl in Snow
“Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.”
“Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.”
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“Some tyrants are brought to justice by those upon whom their boots have tread. Others simply fade into the fog of war and disappear like with the wind.”
Source: Operation Grey Wolf: Not all heros wear the victor's uniform.