S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes a beautiful woman just needs a hard, slow fuck against a wall with a perfect stranger. I understand.”
Source: Double Time
“Sometimes a beginning is really an end. To feel pleasure can mean pain. To hate is to love. And sometimes love is eternal.”
Source: Impassioned Deceit
“Sometimes a benign heartbreak is meaningful. Sometimes it sums up to nothing. Who's to know? And does it matter? It's the abacus of your growth, how many inches up from the ground you've been charted.”
Source: Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
“Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary.”
Source: Flight of Dreams
“Sometimes a bit of distance can be very healthy. You can go away by yourself on a trip and come back very glad to be with your partner because you've cleared your head out of all the negativity.”
“Sometimes a boat comes to the island of loneliness to take you, but you are so used to loneliness that you turn your back on the boat and get lost in the depths of the island!”
“Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.”
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.”
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.”
“Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.”
“Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.”
“Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else's brokenness”
“Sometimes a business has to lose money in its infancy. But that's only okay if there's a path to profitability and a clear vision of a profitable business model. A loss is only acceptable if it's a present investment into future profit.”
Source: Business Essentials
“Sometimes a carrot is just a carrot.”
“Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.”
“Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.”
“Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.”
“Sometimes, a change of scenery is all you need to experience victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Sometimes, a child will go under
while their parent is watching,
and they don’t even know
anything is wrong.
My mom asks if everything’s okay,
and I say of course.
Drowning is a quiet,
desperate thing.”
Source: Forgive Me My Salt
“Sometimes a choppy wave would swamp me, and after I rose gasping I would vomit the foul-tasting water, wiping the sea from my eyes and nostrils. Then I regained my posture to do battle, again with the Solent.”
Source: Psycho Steve
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
“Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.”
Source: 11/22/63
“Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story”
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“Sometimes a city occupies an entire mountain; the clouds, trees and sun of the mountain disappear, but the inhabitants of that city continue their lives without knowing what they killed!”
“Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth”
“Sometimes a closed door will take away your joy, but do not allow yourself to be completely lost. Move on.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Sometimes, a coincidence is a pattern you haven’t figured out yet.”
Source: Pineapple Pirates of the Caribbean: Part One
“Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.”
“Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.”
“Sometimes a controversial statement can be used to determine where the loyalty of the subject lies.”
“Sometimes a creditor is willingto do this as a bargaining point - you give the creditor cash in hand, it gives you a positive listing on your credit report - even though you haven't paid the full amount. Get this agreement in writing.”
“Sometimes a crime is an act of heroism.”
Source: Legendborn
“Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.”
Source: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
“Sometimes a Cupid plays hard to catch
As he always got new couples to match.”
“Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.”
Source: Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel
“Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.”
Source: The Book of Negroes
“Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.”
Source: The Songs of Distant Earth
“Sometimes a difficult goal you want to reach starts running towards you, and that's when you feel weirdly sad because all the tough struggles you planned to do to reach your goal suddenly become meaningless!”
“Sometimes a dimension of ability that appears to be a weakness becomes a strength in the right context.”
Source: Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
“Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.”
Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews
“Sometimes a dream is so bad that you, while dreaming, wish it were just a dream.”
“Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.”
“Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.”
“Sometimes, a father becomes the most emotional mom on earth; and mother, the strongest dad.”
Source: 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life
“Sometimes a feeling can be as true as fact.”
Source: The Restless Girls
“Sometimes, a feeling would creep over Andrei. And actually, it would creep over the dead man’s son beside him, too. A particular awareness would swallow them both individually, in different moments in their lives, for a few seconds. They would lie in bed and out of nowhere, freeze as they remembered that all sensation would end. Everything they’d worked on would be entirely erased. Movement would cease. The visor of consciousness would be taken off. Andrei, and his new friend, would someday no longer have the capacity to try. And they would no longer remember that they could try. They would simply no longer remember.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.”
Source: Hope In The Dark
“Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin.”
Source: Splintered
“Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.”