S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Somehow, through this ritual, I had transcended the impossible distance between me and my mom.”
Source: Kind of Hindu
“Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.”
“Somehow, unexpectedly, that disparaging statement drove us into a fit of unwarranted laughter. I couldn’t help but guffaw at the truth; we were fools! Tears spilled down our cheeks as we envisioned our situation as pathetically hilarious. We were senseless jesters mocking fate. It was a bizarre feeling, making merry noises while standing on the brink of devastation, laughing with lighter spirits at the folly that had brought us to ruin.
It was insane!”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas godly men, refusing to admit that these organizational structures are needed, live in states of chaos and disunity. The tragedy of this fact becomes evident when we realize that many of the successful systems of organization under which the godly men work and which the godly men refuse to accept are biblically based.”
“Somehow we all end up paying for what we do.”
“Somehow we allow, if a character goes to the dark side, if we're hooked into that character - I'm obsessed with Peaky Blinders. Those characters are awful, and yet you root for them. You love them! Same with Breaking Bad. That's not as easy in a feature.”
“Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.”
Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
“Somehow, we believe that we have a better chance of winning a game of probabilities, totally disregarding that everybody who is playing the game has the same possibility of winning.”
“Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.”
“Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.”
“Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior. If we know men, then we know all of humankind. These prevalent cultural attitudes totally deny the uniqueness of the female experience, limiting the development of girls and women and depriving a needy world of the gifts, talents, and resources our daughters have to offer.”
Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman
“somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.”
“Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.”
“Somehow we have to do it is hard work; This is how we have to do it is smart work.”
“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
“Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.”
“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."”
Source: Poems 1960-2000
“Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.”
“Somehow, we must let go of the past and remember it at the same time. We must embrace the reality that is, not the reality we want to be, and do what we can to be a helping hand.”
Source: Afghanistan: The End of the U.S. Footprint and the Rise of the Taliban Rule
“Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry: Poems
“Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!”
Source: Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
“Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.)”
Source: Woman Power: Transform Your Man, Your Marriage, Your Life
“Somehow weddings bring out the most insane moments in people's lives.”
“Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.”
“Somehow when you see a politician kiss a baby, shake a hand -- kiss anything -- it is tainted.”
“Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don’t do it to win anymore; we do it because it’s what we know how to do. Get ready to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the calendar. It’s our battle rhythm.”
Source: No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife
“Somehow, with so much lost it seemed kind of sacrilegious to replace something as silly as those guitars.”
Source: Memories
“Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.”
“Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.”
“Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.”
Source: Legacy
“Somehow you grew up, maintained a crazy amount of self-discipline... and managed to stay sane. I don't know how you're so constantly upbeat and cheery considering the hand life dealt you. You must be a truly amazing person.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“Somehow, you know that good doesn’t ever battle evil. Good knows that evil will do itself in without good having to meddle.”
Source: Mission: Subhero
“Somehow you still get a kick out of comparing yourself to people who have completely different goals than you.”
“Somehow you've been voted something for a magazine, and it's a complete mystery to me. I wake up and I have to look at that head when I brush my teeth every morning, you know. And it's weird. And it's unpleasant at times.”
“Somehow you've come past the realm of just knowing about this Person called Jesus Christ and He is real to you.”
“Somehow, AI is playing an important role of breaking up the ice of complacency. We have a comfortable life, we just don't want to take risks. AI is threatening too many comfortable jobs to make people think about taking risks again.”
“Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.”
“Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.”
“Somehow, being with Brittany brings something to my life that's missing, something ... right.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.”
“Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.”
“Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.”
Source: The Complete Lumatere Chronicles
“Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.”
“Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.”
“Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.”
Source: At the Back of the North Wind
“Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.”
“Somehow, I landed The Walking Dead and it's great because it stretches and works different muscles for me, and it really lets me stretch myself as a performer. Now, I'm really excited to flex my comedy muscle. Hopefully, I'll get some opportunities to do that.”
“Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.”