S Quotes
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“Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.”
“Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I feel like every year I get a year younger. I don't wake up in the morning with aches and pains.”
“Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.”
“Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.”
“Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium. On the other hand, I trained as a documentary filmmaker in film school, so my films very much reflect reality and socio-political problems. They're less subtle I would say.”
“Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me.”
“Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.”
“Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.”
“Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.”
“Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.”
Source: Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed
“Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“Somehow, Rush can still sell out arenas. If I was sitting in row one, I would take my chair, unbolt it from the ground and run away.”
“Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.”
Source: The Hero of Ages: Mistborn Book Three
“Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. If you must go into the arts, go into them for yourself alone. On some basic level you must enjoy the act of doing it ... Otherwise, you are going to end up frustrated and unhappy. Recognition in the arts is luck and gravy.”
“Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.”
“Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”
“Somehow, something is always suffering. Someone is always losing out somehow. If you pick one kid up, you're not picking the other one up. You just try to minimize those small let-downs because, in a way, life is a series of let-downs from everyone, all the time. We don't mean it, but it happens. So, I just try to minimize that and spread them wide.”
“Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.”
“Somehow, Sydney had an internal clock that told her when time was up. I think it was part of her inherent ability to keep track of a hundred things at once. Not me. In these moments, my thoughts were usually focused on getting her shirt off and whether I’d get past the bra this time. So far, I hadn’t.”
“Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.”
“Somehow, the agenda has been put into the form of talking about a set of transitions from state A, the present, to a state B that's sustainable. The problem is that there is no such state. You have to assume that the transitions are going to continue forever and ever and ever. You have to talk about systems that are continuously dynamic, and that are embedded in environments that themselves are continuously dynamic.”
“Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.”
Source: Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea
“Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.”
Source: Stories of Hawaii
“Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.”
“Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.”
Source: Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women
“Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.”
“Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.”
Source: Wellness Wisdom
“Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.”
“Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.”
Source: Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You
“Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success”
“Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness.”
“Somehow, while I wasn't looking, I fell. And I fell hard.”
Source: Up to Me
“somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do”
“Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said "No". They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which the woman rejects the hand of her gentler lover who saves her from the rapist and marries the man who repeatedly and savagely rapes her. It is this "marry the rapist" theme that not only turned Sweet Savage Love into a best-seller but also into one of women's most enduring romance novels.”
“Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.”
“Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.”
“Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.”
“Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.”
“Somentimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody's fault.You just want to feel bad so you'll feel better.”
Source: The Infinite Sea
“Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.”
Source: A Multitude of Sins
“Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts”
“Someone already mastered behavior change hundreds of years ago: it's called religion”
“Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.”
“Someone always wanted to kill the queen.”
Source: Kill the Queen
“Someone approaches Renata as she walks to Sal. He doesn't know who the woman is, but Renata seems to know. She touches the woman's shoulder. Laughs at something she says. Hugs her before ending their quick exhange.
"I can't stand that bitch." Renana says...”
Source: Loca
“Someone as special as him is hard to find. Impossible to forget, impossible to deny! My desire for him becomes more and more unbearable. I feel like I can’t breathe anymore!”
Source: Angel of Love Lily: Zak, My Sweet Inspiration
“Someone asked a wise one, one day
What is life?
He said its all possibilities
Yet most live in self doubt
Self conviction initialised...Get #Mickeymized!”
“Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"”
“Someone asked me "what do you think of Donald Trump?" And I said, "I would rather vote for Hillary Clinton in jail." If she gets convicted, I'll vote for her for president.”