S Quotes
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“Someone told me once that if you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself.”
Source: Shantaram
“Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.”
“Someone told me once that the light we see from the stars is hundreds of thousands of years old. That the star could already be dead and we'd never know it because it still looked alive. I thought that was a terrible thing. That the stars could lie.”
Source: Wolfsong
“Someone told me once that the light we see from them is hundreds of thousands of years old. That the star could already be dead and we'd never know it because it still looked alive. I thought that was a terrible thing. That the stars could lie.”
Source: Wolfsong
“Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.”
“Someone told me recently that a commentator or some sort had said, "The United States is in spiritual free-fall." When people make such remarks, such appalling judgements, they never include themselves, their friends, those with whom they agree. They have drawn, as they say, a bright line between an "us" and a "them." Those on the other side of the line are assumed to be unworthy of respect or hearing, and are in fact to be regarded as a huge problem to the "us" who presume to judge "them." This tedious pattern has repeated itself endlessly through human history and is, as I have said, the end of community and the beginning of tribalism.”
Source: When I Was A Child I Read Books
“Someone told me recently, "You're like Oprah, man. People will tell you anything." I'll ask questions and I don't care. If you don't want to tell me, that's fine, but it's not going to be aggressive. I'm open, too. And no judgments. It's a combination of being willing to ask the questions, and being very open myself.”
“Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.”
“Someone told me something recently about Sarah Palin, someone I trusted in the book business. They said, "I worked with Palin. She did an event at my bookstore, and she was really, really nice, and even more beautiful in person." I didn't want to hear that. I wanted to hear that she was awful and hideous-looking. But I thought, I have to listen to that. I have to hear that. I don't want to be the one who is going to deny anything complimentary said about somebody just because I disagree with that person.”
“Someone told me something that stuck with me: "You have to envision your life, and then go backwards." I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.”
“Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers.”
“Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.”
“someone told me that "The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.”
“Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.”
“Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.”
“Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.”
“Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!”
“Someone told me the morning runs are the best healings and I was really curious to to know and yes he was right
Birds chirping, cold winds and the view that always was there but blurred because of my impatient eyes rushing for work.”
“Someone told me the other day that he felt bad for single people because they are lonely all the time. I told him that’s not true I’m single and I don’t feel lonely. I take myself out to eat, I buy myself clothes. I have great times by myself. Once you know how to take care of yourself company becomes an option and not a necessity.”
“Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.”
“Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist”
“Someone told me you start liking sex when you hit 30--but we'll see.”
“Someone tried to kill me. Again. Poison. Again. Someone else tried to recruit me into a scheme where we would kill my sister and Cardan, so I could rule in their place. When I told them no, they tried to kill me. With a knife, that time.'
'A poisoned knife?'
He laughed. 'No, just a regular one. But it hurt.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Someone tried to kill me, and I’m going swimming. I’m going swimming, because it doesn’t matter. I’m going swimming, because I don’t matter. I’m going swimming, because that’s what Claires do. We swim and we daydream and we read and we wait for someone to care, and they never, ever, ever do.”
Source: Nobody
“Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.”
“Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.”
“Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and forests cannot advance [the team]. One who does not employ local guides cannot gain the advantage.”
“Someone up there likes me.”
“Someone very dear to me once pointed out that supporting someone and fixing them are two different things. Loving and accepting all the broken pieces is the very definition of friendship.”
Source: Code of Conduct
“Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.”
“Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush”
“Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing.”
Source: The Nature of Jade
“Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.”
“Someone was always watching. But tonight, the watcher blinked. Would you keep reading?”
Source: The Silent Coup
“Someone was behind him, he realized suddenly. Someone who smelled warm as a summer day. When he turned he saw Ygritte. She stood beneath the scorched stones of the Lord Commander’s Tower, cloaked in darkness and in memory. The light of the moon was in her hair, her red hair kissed by fire. When he saw that, Jon’s heart leapt into his mouth.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“Someone was coming through the velvet.
He was pulling it wide, he was stepping onto Kestrel’s balcony—close, closer still as she turned and the curtain swayed, then stopped. He pinned the velvet against frame. He held the sweep of it high, at the level of his gray eyes, which were silver in the shadows.
He was here. He had come.
Arin.”
Source: The Winner's Crime
“Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.”
“Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.”
Source: A Certain Slant of Light
“Someone was recently telling me how inspirational he is to his team - apparently he mistook whether that was a good thing or bad. Turns out - they were inspired to keep him busy so he stayed out of their hair!
The morale of the story - we all think we're inspirational, a great leader, know what's right, etc... If we didn't, we'd act differently.
It's a true leader who listens to the real message and recognizes what they aren't.”
“someone was singing
and he was alone.
for us, you wrote yourself
in small letters
so we wouldn’t know.
from the bitterness of blood,
from the nights of the eagles,
that music began,
but we couldn’t hear it.
the grapes are calling
their wine,
the stranger. (...)”
Source: Orbul de la Cină
“Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower.”
“Someone was tapping on the window.”
“someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.”
Source: Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel
“Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.”
Source: Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate
“Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.”
“Someone we regard highly comes closer to us when he performs an action unworthy of him--thereby he releases us from the cavalry of veneration. And starting from that moment we feel a true attachment to him.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Someone: Well, Scientifically, we think faster than we speak...
Me: Yup! So that so we can think twice before we even speak.”
“Someone went “Uh!” and someone else went “Ah,” and he didn’t know if either of them had a Tilean accent.”
Source: Marks of Chaos
“Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true”
“Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.”