S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it. ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.”
“Someone might like you, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be there for you. They can love hanging out with you at happy hour, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to understand if you call them at two in the morning. In fact, the more people like you, the more likely they are to want you to be nothing except the things they like about you. But most people like being liked, so when they feel someone wants them around—and people will want you around if you’re giving them something—they try to please that person. They bend over backwards. You end up used, and used is not loved. Do you get that? Nobody has a lot of friends.”
Source: Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Light in Her Dreams
“Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All different nations, all different people. Different individuals live in the West. There's no such thing as "West" just as there's no such things as "East." What is "East?" Turkey, Iran, China, India, Japan. They are all different. They are all unique.”
“Someone might say, I don't understand music; but most people experience music emotionally and would agree that music is an abstraction. You don't need to put music into words right away--you just listen.
Cinema is a lot like music. It can be very abstract, but people have a yearning to make intellectual sense of it, to put it right into words.”
“Someone might say that's a naïve way of looking at things now, and I would respect their opinion, but I also respect every woman's right to wearing her own individual style, including hair.”
“Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for your life.”
“Someone must be crazy to say no to an adventure, but, at the same time, I am mad and insane for saying yes.”
“Someone must have greatly intimidated Stalin for Zhdanov to insist like this. Bondarevsky? He was too insignificant. When the Soviet team swept the American team off the chessboards, Stalin was pleased. He sent a telegram saying, “Great job!” Why did he start doubting?
In the depths of his soul, Botvinnik did not believe that it was only fear of defeat and the desire to secure victory. They wanted to prove something to Botvinnik. A terrible thought crossed his mind. They wanted him to understand that his skills were not as important as he imagined because even if he played worse and didn’t defeat Reshevsky, they had the power to make him the champion anyway. The goal was to diminish Botvinnik and show him that he was not a significant figure but just an ordinary pawn in a game that surpassed him.”
Source: Game of Chess Thrones: A Tale of Great Masters and the Greatest Game Invented by Humanity
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”
“Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America! If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way ... and our nation will pay a terrible price!”
“Someone must play the role of the threat, and someone — the brave protector.”
Source: Before the Eyes of Doubt
“Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.”
“Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness.”
“Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“someone must suffer if the rest are to enjoy luxury”
Source: The Stone Sky
“Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.”
“Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do.”
“Someone needs to be concerned about those girls."
"Kara and Kendra know that I am only a phone call away."
"Would you even answer the phone if you're laid up under some man?"
Line. Crossed.
Ashanti closed the distance between them, until she was barely a foot away. "Apparently, you didn't hear me the first time," she said. "Who I fuck is none of your business."
Anita gasped, her head snapping back. Her mouth opened and closed but no words came out.
"I should petition the courts!" she finally screeched. "Get those girls away from you!"
"Try it," Ashanti said.
"You shouldn't be raising my brother's children!"
"I am tired of your bullshit, Anita. You hadn't talked to your 'beloved' brother for over three years before he died. I know my dad tried to contact you, and you ignored him."
"He was not your father!"
"Fuck you! He is my father. He loved me and treated me like his own flesh and blood. You, on the other hand, who actually was his flesh and blood, didn't want anything to do with him until he was buried in the ground. And all because he took your mother's dishes."
"It was her wedding china and it was mine!" Anita said. "And it has nothing to do with you."
"No, it doesn't. I don't care why you cut your own brother out of your life. What I do care about are my sisters. You talk about wanting to raise Kara and Kendra? You live an hour away and saw them five times in the first ten years of their lives.
"I know what this is, it's guilt," Ashanti continued. "But you don't get to alleviate the shame and regret you feel at the way you treated your own brother by making my sisters' lives hell.”
Source: Pardon My Frenchie
“Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.”
Source: Dark Prince: Number 1 in series
“Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.”
“Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.”
“Someone needs to make a zombie movie where when you get bit it turns you into a singing and dancing extraordinaire.”
“Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.”
“Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.”
“Someone needs your actions to inspire his actions. Never forget, your little broken cake is someone’s daily meal! Care to share you little cake!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Someone not showing all their cards, forces you into a game of questionable unknowns.”
“Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece.”
“Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.”
Source: He: Understanding Masculine Psychology
“Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself as a delightful little man.”
“Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?”
“Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!”
“Someone once asked a spiritual master, “What is the end of the path?” The master replied, “The path has no end because the Beloved has no end.”
Source: Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith
“Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."”
Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan
“Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.”
“Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey”
“Someone once asked me if I knew the feeling of fear. Oh, I knew fear. Well, really speaking I never feared any fucker at that time; I’ve got to be honest. But I knew fear, the fear of losing! There was never any fear of combat! My father instilled that fear in to me and that was what drove me on to win … the fear of what was to come after you went home saying you’d lost!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.”
Source: You learn by living
“Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.”
“Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.”
“Someone once asked me, what is the ugliest form of beauty,
I said the ugliest beauty lies in tears.
Someone also asked me, which form of ugliness is most loved by me, and I said that I loved the ugliness of longing.”
“Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.”
“Someone once asked me which of my senses I would prefer not to lose. I said, “My sense of humour.”
“Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their territory, or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. Perhaps more than the birds do, humans hold a grudge. They sing to complain of how grievously they have been wronged, and how to avoid it in the future. They sing to help themselves execute a job of work. They sing so the subsequent generations won’t forget what the current generation endured, or dreamed, or delighted in.”
Source: Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
“Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.”
“Someone once asked me, `How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, `With both hands, of course...'”
“Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"”
Source: What to Listen For in Music
“Someone once asked Somerset Maugham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. “I write only when inspiration strikes,” he replied. “Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp."
That's a pro.”
Source: The War Of Art
“Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles