S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Something in me tells me the worst is yet to come, but I don’t want to believe it. How beastly we men have become, but, no, that is too good a comparison. We are worse than the beasts of the field, for they kill to eat, but we kill for much lesser things.--Silver Moon”
Source: Silver Moon
“Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.”
Source: The Collected Writings
“Something in me wanted to find out how far I could run without stopping.”
“Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.”
“Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.”
“Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.”
Source: Notebooks
“Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.”
“Something in my chest flutters like a bird
whose wings are being gripped still
by the firmest fingers.”
Source: The Poet X
“Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it that the sensation was like something living inside me, something wonderful waiting to break free, just like I was.”
“Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.”
Source: The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set
“Something in the external environment happens and our ‘system-of-self’ responds, in whatever way it’s been programmed to.”
Source: FAITH, In Stories That Change
“Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!”
“Something in the movement of fingers on the keyboard enhances thought. Fingers pull your thoughts forward. Fingers are in some way an extension of your brain, with a lot of cortex associations at their trigger. Get them going!”
Source: Fiction Writer's Workshop
“Something in the room had changed. My hand was on the floor, next to Stephen, but he wasn't as close to my hand as he had been. He had moved several inches over, toward the table. Just as I realized this, his arm shot out for the knife. In the next moment, he had rolled up on his knees and had Sadie caught in the crook of his arm. His face was pale, and he looked a bit shaken by the sudden movement. He was alive.”
Source: The Shadow Cabinet
“Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. What is encountered may be Socrates, a temple or a demon. It may be grasped in a range of affective tones: wonder, love, hatred, suffering. In whichever tone, its primary characteristic is that it can only be sensed. In this sense it is opposed to recognition.”
“Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.”
Source: Difference and Repetition
“Something in you has to wake up.”
“Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.”
“Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.”
“Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.”
“Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.”
“Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.”
Source: The Post-office Girl
“Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.”
Source: A Man Called Ove
“Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!”
Source: City of Ashes
“Something inside her recognized the potential for more with him. Either they fell in love and she became tethered to him, or a broken heart was in her future. Better to stop anything from developing at all. Before love became too messy, too addicting, too complicated to escape.”
Source: Tethered: Aquarius
“Something inside her relaxed at that, at the knowledge that this weird, amorphous thing in her wasn't one-sided, that he wanted her the way she wanted him.”
Source: Only Ashes Remain
“Something inside is burning me up, and all I know is it makes me think of you.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“something inside me aches for something inside you still.”
Source: Bridges: A Lost Connection
“Something inside me breaks. It's that fucking heart I didn't know I had.”
Source: Everybody Lies
“Something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away, but I realized they weren't important. They weren't going to help me.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series
“Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock. And now, the vault inside of me that contains all my secrets is swinging open and I feel that rush of blood swell in my chest.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Something inside me dies. I think it is called hope - a little feather drifting in the breeze, staying afloat and dancing until it drops to the ground, trampled under the feet of reality; or maybe it sees that it is fruitless to stick around and flies further on, out of reach and impossible to grasp.”
Source: Books of Destinies Vol. 2
“Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Something inside me stops the moment I see a mighty mountain.”
“Something inside me told me to trust Kalvin Walker. It also told me to ride that man like a rollercoaster with my hand in the air screaming, but I was only up for one major event at a time.”
Source: Coach Hota**
“Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“Something inside me was being tugged forward, like it needed to be lost in the sea of green and leave this life and all my sorrows behind.”
Source: Letters in the Attic
“something inside me will say no. not this time. you've come so far. don't step backwards now.
you will be a mere yard away from me when i shake my head. you will freeze mid-step, and your eyes will go wide with surprise and confusion.
"no". the world will stumble from my mouth as if it was an accident. but i will prove that it isn't by turning away from you.
you will say, "wait, can't you just talk to me?"
there will be a plea in your voice that will make me stop for a moment. it will almost make me turn back to you. it will wrap a fist around my heart and squeeze.
but despite the pain, despite the pull i will always feel to you, i will look over my shoulder, and i will meet your gaze with mine one last time. and i will make sure you can feel that fire in me, burning. i will make sure you know that no matter how cold you made me, you never managed to put that fire out.
"no", i will say. "but it was good to see you".”
Source: how the words come
“Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.”
“Something inside of me won't let me play small”
Source: Nyabo (Madam) - Why Are You Here? The Truth about Living in Service, Love, and Personal Power
“something inside of you has always been trying to carry you.”
“Something inside Rudy clambered to rise out of him, something alive and astonishing -- he hardly ever felt this way.”
Source: The Republic of East L.A.
“Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.”
“Something interesting and exciting happens when you begin contributing as a leader. You move from working in an organization to working on it...Whether you have a leadership title or not, when you begin working on your organization, you begin your journey as a leader.”
Source: The Nonprofit Dilemma: Insights & Strategies for Purpose-Driven Leaders
“Something interesting happens when we approach situations from a perspective of humility—it opens us up to possibilities as we choose open-mindedness and curiosity over protecting our point of view. We spend more time in that wonderful space of the 'beginner's mind,' willing to learn from what others have to offer. This translates into moving away from pushing to allowing, from insecure to secure, from seeking approval to seeking enlightenment.”
Source: The Leader as a Mensch: Become the Kind of Person Others Want to Follow
“Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.”
“Something invisible snapped inside her.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
“Something is always born out of too deep grief. Just when you grope for balance, art is born out of a compelling desire to express the muted pain, a painting comes on the canvas to portray the impenetrable feelings, and the lamenting mouth fills the world with music too deep to die. Grief and art meet somewhere along the way.”