S Quotes
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“Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.”
“Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky.”
“Some worlds forget themselves. People do too.”
Source: The Cartographer’s Curse: Book I of The Leyline Cycle
“Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do. I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough....Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.”
“Some would argue for the third possibility on the grounds that, if there were a complete set of laws, that would infringe God's freedom to change his mind and intervene in the world. It's a bit like the old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it? But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created. Presumably, he knew what he intended when he set it up!”
Source: A Brief History of Time
“Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got into Yale because his father was a wealthy alumnus. But the White House counters that Saddam is a menace and must be stopped.”
“Some would ask which country am I from? We are supposed to tell the truth, [so] we tell them India. Some thought it was Indiana, not India! Some did not know where India is. I said it is the country next to Pakistan.”
“Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way it was a simple thing: a lost diary fell into the hands of a soul-sick war hero on a train from Bombay to Jaipur just when he'd grown tired of the scenery and needed something to keep his thoughts from the minefield of his wretched thoughts. In such mild ways is the groundwork laid for first kisses and ruined lives.”
“Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.”
“Some would call me a defector,' he continued, 'and accuse me of switching sides. Can the parts of a man articulate the sum?'
-Starganauts: Defector”
“Some would call that lucky but lucky is relative”
Source: When the Moon is Low
“Some would consider living in a toxic home, working a toxic job and dying from preventable disease to be a form of insanity.”
“Some would define a servant like this: 'A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.' The human concept of a servant is that a servant goes to the master and says, 'Master, what do you want me to do?' The master tells him, and the servant goes off BY HIMSELF and does it. That is not the biblical concept of a servant of God. Being a servant of God is different from being a servant of a human master. A servant of a human master works FOR his master. God, however, works THROUGH His servants.”
Source: Experiencing God: How to Live the Full Adventure of Knowing and Doing the Will of God
“Some would have us believe that God is present everywhere. It is not so”
“Some would just run up to me, kiss me, and then run off, giggling. I know men are shallow, but half the dudes I know live for this. Our pride is completely and irrevocably intertwined with the women we associate with. The hotter they are, the more of them there are, and the more they like us, the more confident we feel about ourselves.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender.”
Source: Karen Memory
“Some would say that the winged boy loved the sun, loved him with his very own soul and every fibre in his body. His father had warned him: Don’t fly too close to the sun, boy, you know better. But who was he to listen?”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.”
Source: Circle Series 4-in-1
“Some wounds are so deep, that if you were to reach in their depth, you wouldn't find a way back.”
“Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.”
“Some wounds don’t bleed. They linger in silence, waiting to be seen and named.”
Source: The Choice to Heal: A Memoir of Breaking the Cycle
“some wounds from loved ones always special will teach you some thing in that if your positive minded
-ManishRajan”
“some wounds from loved ones never truly heals but bleeds again with the words/behavior”
“Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.”
Source: When Dad Killed Mom
“Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
Better that they were not touched at all.”
“Some wounds never heal; they just rest beneath the layers of time, waiting for the right moment to resurface.”
“Some wounds run too deep for the healing.”
“Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.”
Source: Mine to Possess
“Some wounds were worth bearing for the healing they brought.”
Source: Summer's End
“Some wristwatches are so big that you would be adamant that they were made for the wall, if you see or saw them only after the removal of their straps.”
“Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.”
Source: Poems with a Memoir of the Author by Henry Stebbing
“Some write. Others Code. I art...!!”
“Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem.”
“Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.”
“Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.”
“Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.”
“Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?”
“Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.”
“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”
“Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.”
“Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.”
“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
“Some writers die with their stories untold and ideas unshaped. What a sad loss to the world.”
“Some writers don't believe they're ready to begin writing the story until they've finished all the research they can think of to do — until they're sure of everything. That's a logical approach, of course. The more factual knowledge, the less likelihood you'll have to throw out a lot of glorious prose when you find out that something you assumed to be true wasn't.
But one problem with delaying your start until the research is all done is that the research is never all done.”
Source: The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction: Researching and Writing Historical Fiction
“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”
“Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing on that tightrope: not too contrived, not too rambling; does what I'm saying about the world below me actually add up to anything? Other writers pay attention to these things as they write the first draft. Either way, an awareness of the macro and micro levels of theme can provide one more tool for thinking about what you should write, and how.”
“Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.”
“Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use of pornography - with pornography acting as a substitute for sexual acts rather than a stimulant. This ties in with the argument that the pro-censorship lobby fails to distinguish between fantasy and reality, and to recognise that many people - including feminists! - can behave in perfectly decent, moral and non-abusive ways whilst enjoying `politically incorrect’ sexual fantasies. The assumption that fantasy leads to crimes of abuse is both highly contentious and inevitably seems to ‘criminalise’ sexual fantasy. Moreover, the argument that exposure to pornography causes men to act in a violent or abusive way towards women is surely undermined by even a casual look at human history and at the contemporary world.”
Source: Sexual Politics: An Introduction
“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I