S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.”
Source: How the Mind Works
“Something about the way he says my name makes me feel like everyone else has been saying it wrong my entire life.”
Source: Maid for the Doctor Next Door
“Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.”
Source: The Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell Series
“Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .”
“Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!”
“Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.”
“Something about this small glimmer of happiness feels wrong, but I can't think about that. I just hold onto the glimmer, the shred. I let myself feel a tiny bit happy. Even though it kind of hurts.”
Source: Tease
“Something about you caught me by surprise
Though I always knew you’d be my demise.
“I didn’t want you to love me
Didn’t want you thinking of me
So I kept my distance
Tried to ignore your existence
I was blinded by my pride
With you, the Jekyll to my Hyde
But that’s where you found me
Baby, that’s where you unwound me
Loving you would be as easy as taking a breath
But to look at you, that’s a dance with death
I’d risk it all,
For you I would
You’d make me fall,
And fall I would
Loving you would be as easy as taking a breath
But to be by you, that’s a dance with death.
“I thought once was enough
You turned to me and called my bluff,
Maybe I should have walked away
but I couldn’t resist, I needed replay after replay
Loving you would be as easy as taking a breath
But to give you up, that’s a dance with death
We were over from the start
I never said I’d give my heart
So now it’s time for this to end
After all, a friend is just a friend
Loving you would be as easy as taking a breath
But to give you up, that’s a dance with death
So now it’s time for this to end
After all, a friend is just a friend.”
Source: The Duet
“Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.”
“Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“Something akin to a global scale combustion caused by perhaps a comet scraping our planet's atmosphere or a meteorite slamming into its surface, scorched the air, melted bedrock and altered the course of Earth's history. Exactly what it was is unclear, but this event jump-started what Kenneth Tankersley, an assistant professor of anthropology and geology at the University of Cincinnati, calls the last gasp of the last ice age. 'Imagine living in a time when you look outside and there are elephants walking around in Cincinnati,' Tankersley says. 'But by the time you're at the end of your years, there are no more elephants. It happens within your lifetime.”
Source: Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History
“Something akin to pride kreeps into his voice, but it's a hollow sort of pride. It's the pride of someone who's rarely proud of anything. It's the type of pride that can be knocked over with a feather, and so it rarely gets to shine in the face of the world.
The little Black kid flashes those impossibly white teeth at me and he laughs and then he covers his smile and quells the laughter [...], and I know that he's spent his entire life being afraid to be happy.”
Source: Hell of a Book
“Something always brings be back to you, it never takes too long”
“Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.”
Source: High Wizardry
“Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.”
“Something always prevents married women from getting a good night's sleep.”
Source: Why
“Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.”
Source: Dead Reckoning: A True Blood Novel
“Something always went wrong in life. The science of living- and it was a science, mind you- mainly entailed learning how to adapt to the wrongs of everyday suffering.”
Source: Majan Chronicles
“Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.”
Source: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore.”
“Something as beautiful and natural as male-female relationships have been perhaps inalterably politicized, and politicized from the standpoint that men are the predators and that men are brutes and that men are uncaring, what have you, all to get the female vote. And I just sense people are getting fed up with it entirely. They may not even know specifically why. But it's just one of the seeming gazillion things that just are not right in America and out of whack.”
“Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.”
“Something as important and central and encompassing as empathy can't be all bad. I think empathy plays a role in intimate relationships, where you might want your partner not just to care about you or understand you but to feel what you feel.”
“Something as important as marriage equality, which is now a constitutional right [in the USA], is something that cannot be denied. It's also very un-Christian, if you think about the way Christ was and Christ's teachings. This is not loving. This is anger. This is hatred. This is bigotry. And it's wrong.”
“Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.”
“Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.”
“Something as simple as sitting next to a lonely girl on a park bench may be enough to deter predators.”
“Something as straightforward as a difference could lead to something as complex as a breakdown.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Something as subtle as scent pushes through me and I drown, for an instant, in the beauty. It's awe, as thoughtless as joy. not my joy, but Joy. Joy that is and will be whether I am here to sense it or not. And for a breath, for only a moment, I believe this Joy to be the true nature of all that is. I would believe this world has no meaning, no soul. But I see this sky and taste this air and I held my child and I watched him cry his first breath. If the universe is nothing but rock and fire and the rules of physics, why does it hurt up and down and as far as it stretches?
If I am being punished- God, Father, Mother, All- if I am being punished, let me see my sin. Please. Let me see this somehow makes sense and the world is not just stone and death at its heart.”
Source: Hollow
“Something as unique as 'Scrubs' is a tough act to follow. It's hard to find something that good that you want to really make a commitment to.”
“Something at the back of his mind whispered that this assignment would be like nothing he had encountered before.”
Source: The Isle of Arcrea
“Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.”
“Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.”
“Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.”
“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”
Source: Gone Girl
“Something bashed against the submarine with such a tremendous force that the vessel rocked violently from side to side, throwing people back and forth. Jacob and Whistler weren't ready for the first of these, and they earned bruises as their medals, but the second time the creature shook the ship, they clung to pipes that rattled in their holdings, as if they themselves feared the larger beast that came to feast upon them all.”
Source: Lifemaker
“Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.”
“Something began to happen within me that I did not have the means to comprehend, like a disintegration and re-amalgamation of my soul. What I had no hope to communicate in words began to reveal itself in whatever way it could: in a smile, in a teardrop, in an exhalation that gave heat to the wind. As everything familiar began to mix with the unknown, an awareness began to galvanize from somewhere deep inside of me that I was on my way to becoming something far greater than just one of the many forked paths that whirled before me. In a way, I would become all of them, and more. It was like I had not one, but an infinite number of existences, all of which were true. In that moment, as I stood in the center of my own expanse of possibility, I felt the full immensity of life, for I’d just realized I was limitless.”
Source: Commendable Delusions: Tales of Meaning and Imagination
“Something began to say to me, "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really coöperating with it." When oppressed people willingly accept their oppression they only serve to give the oppressor a convenient justification for his acts. Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. So in order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to coöperate with an evil system.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.”
“Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.”
“Something big happened over the weekend. Something that affects everybody, all over the world. George Clooney got married.”
“Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.”
“Something blackens your heart, something deep and bitter. It has festered inside you for years, nurtured and encouraged. I’ve never felt anything like it.”
Source: The Young Elites
“Something breathing, something bleeding, something blue.
It was time to cast her first spell as the Gargoyle.”
Source: Midnight Beauties
“Something brought you here. Trust that it will satisfy its own intention to take you Home.”
“Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.”
“Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.”
“Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.”