S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer.”
“Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.”
“Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.”
“Sometimes a friend is most important, for friends are always there to laugh, cry, travel, see, hide, and feel with the other person. They will always be there. That is the measure of a true person: being a friend. It’s so much more than you think.”
“Sometimes a girl just needs a sunset & sea breezes, flip flops & freedom.”
“Sometimes a girl just wants to be rescued now and again. Why is that so wrong?”
“Sometimes a girl needs to be told what a guy feels, rather than trying to decipher the signs.”
Source: Dangled Carat
“Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.
Murder in the Dog Park”
“Sometimes a girl's gotta have some chocolate!”
“Sometimes a goal in life we’re striving for seems dim or becomes unreachable. Direction has suddenly changed so fast we’re left with aimless thoughts and confusion. Don’t be troubled! You’ve proved to yourself that you have the drive. Your new direction will come with patience. Each of us needs time to rest our heart and mind before we reach the next mountain.”
Source: Our Reflections
“Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.”
“Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.”
“Sometimes a good girl needs to be bad.”
Source: Nowhere But Here
“Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.”
“Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.”
“Sometimes a good view, a good music and a good book meet at the same place at the same time and it really comes hard to people to sacrifice even one of them!”
“Sometimes a goodbye is a necessary part of a larger journey that we do not understand. And at times, if the ‘goodbye’ doesn’t happen the next ‘hello’ won’t either.”
“Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.”
“Sometimes a great wave rages on the shore; but then he flees swiftly back towards the sea, as if frightened by the courage of the shore!”
“Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding”
Source: The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick
“Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.”
“Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.”
“Sometimes a hard sacrifice must be made for a future that's worth having”
“Sometimes, a heart can’t afford to be just friends.”
“Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.”
“Sometimes a high moon, liquid-brilliant, scudded across a hollow space and took cover under electric, brown-iridescent cloud-edges.”
“Sometimes a house wants to be your mother. Sometimes a house wants to hide the evidence. Some houses would smother you with good tastefulness, a claustrophobic need to impress. Some houses would like you to calm down already. Some houses want you to get the hell out. Some houses get silly with nostalgia. Some houses are destined for the aftermaths of true love. Some houses couldn’t care less: you might as well be living in generic anywhere. But no one ever is.”
Source: Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays
“Sometimes a hug is all that you need.”
“Sometimes a hundred spoiled ships come to your port and you don't enjoy any of them, sometimes a humble boat arrives and you feel very happy!”
“Sometimes, a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing”
“Sometimes a joke that doesn't work just needs a breath or a little word or the tiniest little change to be fixed.”
“Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.”
Source: Shadow of the Silk Road
“Sometimes a journey forced is a journey wrecked.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Sometimes a journey is not about the traveler. It is not about a destination. It is about the bringing together of worlds. It is about lighting a path.”
Source: Painted Oxen
“Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.”
Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.”
Source: East of Eden
“Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.”
Source: How to Betray a Dragon's Hero
“Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.”
“Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.”
Source: The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition
“Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Sometimes a lie builds until the truth does more harm than good”
Source: Sword of the North
“Sometimes a lie is just easier to deal with; more manageable than real life, not as messy. Contained. (...) Sometimes it's safer to do it too, like a shield over someone you care about, or a shield over your own image. It depends.”
Source: How to Kill an Angel
“Sometimes a lie is nothing but a delicate veil masking the ugliness of the truth – they do not last for long.”
Source: The Parlour Game: A Victorian Ghost Story
“Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.”
“Sometimes a little brain damage can help.”
Source: The Best of Brain Droppings
“Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.”
“Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.”
“Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.”
“Sometimes a little humility can save you from huge public humiliation.”
“Sometimes a little more
Sometimes a little less
Other times engulfed in fear
wondering if you can love me bare.”