S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.”
“Somehow, in the coming days, she would have to find the strength to refuse to be everyone’s pawn.”
Source: The Emperor's Bone Palace
“Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.”
“Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.”
“Somehow in the whore the cold womb, constantly subjected to desire, produces a phenomenon. All the eroticism comes to the surface. The constant living with a penis inside of one does something fascinating to a woman. The womb seems to be exposed, to be present in every aspect of her.”
Source: Little Birds
“Somehow it all got too out of hand, too complicated for a simple man. Don't want to have to pick and choose, hey, look at all these things I'll never use.”
“Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.”
“Somehow it always seems that the crummier the test, the higher the heritability it produces.”
“Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth’s charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?”
“Somehow it felt like everything was missing, and asphalt and the bridge and railway line. He came to the end of the road and then everything turned into nothingness. It's over. How he just hated that word.”
Source: Police
“Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.”
“Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.”
“Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that he may "retire" and enjoy himself as soon as he is too old to do so. This is more than just the system - it is the credo. It is the same thing that prompted Thoreau to say, in 1839: 'The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation.'”
Source: Wanderer
“Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.”
“Somehow, it looked even more old-fashioned than the kitchen. The dresser was gorgeous, made of a dark wood I couldn't identify, with ornate curlicue carvings along the top and on the handles. It looked like something you might find at an antique show. The large, floral, probably homemade quilt covering the bed did, too.
As for the bed itself, it was an honest-to-god four-poster bed complete with a lacy white canopy hanging above it. The mattress was thick and looked sumptuous and comfortable.”
Source: My Roommate Is a Vampire
“Somehow it's dull and damp. I have been dull; I have missed you. I do miss you. I shall miss you. And if you don't believe it, you're a long-eared owl and ass. Lovely phrases?”
“Somehow it's easier to talk up here, because I feel like a kid again. And when you're a kid, you still have so many chances to get your life right.”
Source: Nate Expectations
“Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer; except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs.”
Source: Animal Farm
“Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
“Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.”
Source: Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
“Somehow it was not the fault of the born adventurers, of those who by their very nature dwelt outside society and outside all political bodies, that they found in imperialism a political game that was endless by definition; they were not supposed to know that in politics an endless game can end only in catastrophe and that political secrecy hardly ever ends in anything nobler than the vulgar duplicity of a spy. The joke on these players of the Great Game was that their employers knew what they wanted and used their passion for anonymity for ordinary spying. But this triumph of the profit-hungry investors was temporary, and they were duly cheated when a few decades later they met the player of the game of totalitarianism, a game played without ulterior motives like profit and therefore played with such murderous efficiency that it devoured even those who financed it.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.”
“Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.”
“Somehow, Kit got the cup to his mouth. Perhaps even the steam was fortifying. It tasted of bitter earth and summer sun and the unshed tears still clogging his throat.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Somehow knowing the end doesn't make it less painful!”
“Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.”
“Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.”
“Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.”
Source: The Prisoner of Zenda
“Somehow, my whole existence had become a really complicated word problem.
I'd always sucked at those.”
“Somehow, not judging has become very much in vogue. When presented with a dilemma, it’s what the progressive-minded are supposed to do. Not judging is great when it comes to superficialities like, “I’m not going to judge your green, bouffant hair,” or civil rights like, “I’m not going to judge your sexual orientation,” but it falls apart when you apply it to moral dilemmas. “I’m not going to judge the Syrian refugee crisis” just makes you sound like an asshole.”
Source: Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life: The Chump Lady's Survival Guide
“Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.”
“Somehow one feels unfettered by any of the harsh, restricting influences of human existence as we live it these days. There are no buildings, no roads, no street lights, no artificial or even natural noises, no hustle and bustle, no need for anyone to shout or to have money or to pretend about anything; those human beings who are with you are probably fairly well known to you, and are there for the same reason that you are—they know the dangers and delights of solitude just the same as you do, and they will react to the unblemished and staggering loveliness of a huge expanse of desert sky, deep blue by day and of a marvellous purple at night sprinkled haphazardly with hundreds and thousands of stars silently lighting up that great canopy of night-time that drifts down with the close of day. I personally think I know of nothing more restorative than lying on the soft sand—cool now after the retirement of the day’s sun— and just staring at the miracle of such a sky. And then you fall asleep, rolled up in a sleeping bag against the considerable fall in temperature as the night goes on, perhaps waking an hour or two before dawn for just long enough to notice that those little stars are still there—as bright as ever—and do not even look as though they are getting ready to be extinguished by the advent of another day. It is a lovely, comforting feeling when the world around you is quite still; and there is no sound anywhere to penetrate the delightful peace that surrounds you. When the dawn comes, and the stars have all gone away, there is something sharp and exhilarating about the smell in the air. It is fresh and clean and tantalisingly different to the atmosphere which will pervade the day once the sun has come up over the distant horizon. Then there will be no escape from its merciless and desiccating heat, which drains you of energy and leaves you burned and incapable of any prolonged activity. And the bright reflection of the sun off the light-coloured sand can be piercing and painful to the eyes. There is probably not even a tiny breeze to move that sullen, sultry air, and there can be no relief from its effects until once more, and inevitably, the great ball of fire that is the sun will slide slowly below the land and allow it to grow cool. It would be foolish to pretend that all of those who served with the LRDG saw the desert in the way that I have described it, all or even much of the time. But I am quite sure that when their minds were not diverted by rather more pressing considerations concerning the enemy, there were few who were not moved by the beauty of the sky at night. They all spent quite a number of hours on sentry duty, when, alone with his thoughts and in such surroundings, no man can be oblivious of such a miraculous revelation.”
Source: The Long Range Desert Group, 1940–1945: Providence Their Guide
“somehow one must love the world without being worldly.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Somehow, one of the women found time to knit a jacket for Shadow which, combined with the other gifts, left me unaccountable flustered---given my companion's size, it would have taken her hours. Bambleby and I entertained ourselves at the cottage by coaxing a recalcitrant Shadow into his new raiment, which was patterned with flowers and equipped with a jaunty hood. The dog hung his head in abject embarrassment until his tormentors deigned to relieve him of this woolen pillory, and he spent the next hour pointedly ignoring me.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
“Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.”
“Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.”
Source: Three Complete Novels
“Somehow people always had popcorn.”
“somehow people forget that there is God....
what more to us we're just individuals,,
to forget is part of imperfections..”
“Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.”
“Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.”
“Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.”
“Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.”
“Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.”
“Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.”
Source: Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus' Name
“Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.”
“somehow reminding Chloe of Nightcrawier in X-Men United. Who needs movies when you are a mutant?”
Source: The Nine Lives of Chloe King
“somehow respected the wounds given by you.
I always kept them in my heart and never treated”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Somehow she'd labeled those days a humiliation. She'd based her choices--her giant house, her daughters' schools, her constant attention to family life--on erecting a wall between her grim childhood and her bright future. But she was beginning to see that the camaraderie with her brother and sister, the yummy microwaved dinners, the way they'd crowd around the small TV to watch Family Feud, yelling out answers--in some ways, those days had been wonderful. She promised herself now: it will be okay.”
Source: The Jetsetters