S Quotes
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“Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.”
Source: Change of Heart: A Novel
“Someone once told me, ‘The brightest smiles bring us the greatest of joys. The loudest laughter is like a grand orchestra, and the most beautiful faces are covered in makeup, because we are okay, and everything is fine. The brightest smile is like a bandage, it looks okay, but inside the wound still festers, asking to be cut off. They say laughter is the best medicine. And the mask is our way of making ourselves look more beautiful, to reduce our flaws and hide our scars. When the smiles fade away and the bandage is ripped off; when the laughter is silenced and the music stops, when the makeup is washed away, and our mask fades, we find that we were never truly okay.”
Source: The Holy Grail War: The Hedgehog
“Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.”
“Someone once told me to always live for 5 am sunrises and 5 pm sunsets, where you'll see colors in the sky that usually don't belong. Live for the road trips and bike rides, with music in ears and wind in hair. Live for the days when you're surrounded by your favorite people who make you realize that the world is not a cold, harsh place. Live for the little things.”
“Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.”
“Someone once told me to never dream. I said NEVER SAY NEVER”
“Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.”
“Someone once told me: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'. And that's what I really feel with my music. I've worked really, really hard on it. It was like, 'this is really what I want to do.. what do I have to do to make it work?'”
“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.
Also, here is a green toothbrush tied in a ribbon.
It expresses my feelings inadequately..
Better than chocolate, being with you last night.
Silly me, I thought nothing was better than chocolate.
In a profound symbolic gesture,I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we all went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.”
Source: We Were Liars
“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”
Source: We Were Liars
“Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.”
Source: Girl in a Band: A Memoir
“Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.”
Source: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
“Someone one said, ‘I just wanna lay me down and die,’ which implies that they’re currently doing neither. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not living as if they are.”
“Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.”
“Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.”
Source: To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
“Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.”
Source: Deathless
“Someone ought to write a novel about me.”
Source: Deathless
“Someone out there is looking for exactly what you've got…and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth. Some things in life just can’t be bartered over or placed on the sale rack – and your self-worth is at the top of the list.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.”
“Someone owed Aeduan a life-debt. It was …
A first.
A first that he didn’t know how to swallow. The Threadwitch Iseult was alive because he had made it so. She could breathe her current breaths and could taste the river’s water because he had saved her life.
Though she had also, in a way, saved his. First, she had not killed him while he lay unconscious in the bear trap. And second, she had been the one to hook them to that stone before the Falls.
But Aeduan decided not to mention any of this, for if the Threadwitch believed she owed him three lives, then that gave him an advantage. That, he could use. He didn’t know how, he didn’t know when, only that he absolutely would.”
Source: Windwitch
“Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.”
“Someone peeled back the surface of our town, and the whole country saw what was underneath. By Easter 1980 we were creepier than Amityville.”
Source: How We Learned to Lie: A Novel
“Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than the day before. It's like a negligent parent who only knows one half of who you are. It never sees how its absence changes people. How different we are in the dark.”
Source: Shatter Me
“Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)”
Source: Dream Chaser
“Someone poisoned the High King, and he is going to laugh and dance himself to death in front of a Court that will veer between delight and disgust. They will think him ridiculous as his heart stops.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Someone posted on my work ‘This guy is crazy!’. I was so proud!”
“Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.”
“Someone praising you is also someone being judgmental. The difference is that you like the verdict this time.”
“Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less.”
Source: The Fireman
“Someone pumps sentences into my brain, long-forgotten images from childhood; meaningless objects and conversations peel layers from my heart. I am again a river faun, paralyzed by longing for a river nymph. I walk through wolframic space, my mouth and nose threaded with wire, and whenever I deviate from my course, I feel a sharp pain in my jaws.”
Source: Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult
“Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.”
Source: Fatal Strike
“Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.”
“Someone recently asked me to write about men's problems in life. She said "I can see pain in a man's eyes! Why don't you write about it!" Her words made me think deeply on this topic. And I do agree with her that as a society we do not give the kind of attention to this topic that it deserves. We neglect this topic quite often. In the fight for equality and supporting the women in our life, we - the men in society - tend to neglect ourselves and don't give ourselves the due that we deserve.
As a writer, I too have been partially blind to this topic. And I have not written on this topic that is of much importance. Because men and women are the two wheels of a vehicle which propels life forward. What would life be without men or women?”
“Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.”
“Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.”
“Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.”
“Someone remind me why I didn’t want to be an accountant when I grew up,” Brock drawled. Niko chuckled. “Because accountants don’t get to make things go boom.”
“Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.”
“Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.”
Source: The Ice Balloon
“Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process - they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.”
“Someone’s after her—”
“Your antagonist, good . . .”
“And she’s getting worse. She needs to figure out what’s going on.”
Daniel leaned his chin on his hand and raised his eyebrows. “How about an Obi-Wan slash Gandalf slash Dumbledore slash Giles?”
“Giles?”
Daniel shook his head sadly. “I hate that I never managed to persuade you to watch Buffy. It’s a flaw in you, Mara.”
Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
“Someone's boyfriend died in a rock-climbing accident in Switzerland: everyone gathered around her, on fire with tragedy. Their dramatic shows up support underpinned with jealousy- bad luck was rare enough to be glamorous.”
Source: The Girls
“Someone's Breakup can be Someone's startup”
“Someone's company seems to purify your thoughts,
So to understand that it seems to purify your thoughts with the company of someone,
So understand that the person is not ordinary.”
“Someone's going to be very pleased to see you."
"I don't think the Elector will be as excited as you think."
"I wasn't talking about the Elector."
My heart jumps at that.”
Source: Champion
“Someone’s good fortune is not your misfortune.”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?”
“Someone's great blessing has sprung from a pain that you may not be able to endure. So, envy not the blessings they have, unless you are willing to take on the curses too.”
Source: The Unfolding: A Journey of Involution