S Quotes
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“Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.”
“Sometimes a little pat is all a friend can do.”
Source: Junie B., First Grader: Dumb Bunny
“Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.”
“Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life.”
“Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.”
“Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.”
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea he dared to have”
“Sometimes a man celebrates his birthday with a large party, girls, food, too much drink. And sometimes a man celebrates his birthday by thinking deep thoughts. Who's to say which one is right.”
“Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.”
“Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.”
Source: On Cats
“Sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see the damage he's done, oh sometimes a man must awake to find that really he has no one. So I'll wait for you and I'll burn will I ever see your sweet return, oh will I ever learn? Oh, Lover you should've come over. Oh love well I'm waiting for you.”
“Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.”
“Sometimes
a man
has to fight
so hard
for life
that he forgets
to live it.”
Source: Stems from the Edge of Silence: Writings from the springs of the mind
“Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.”
Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.”
“Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.”
“Sometimes a man isn’t good when he’s trying to be great.”
Source: Bodies: A Romantic Bloodbath
“sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.”
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
“Sometimes a man must stand for what is right and sometimes you must simply walk away and suffer the babblings of weak-minded fools or try to change their minds. It’s like teachin’ a pig to sing. It is a waste of your time and it annoys the pig.”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
“sometimes a man's spirit just ain't strong enough to withstand the ghost of his past.
Maybe the guy lost his spirits somewhere along the way”
Source: Ugly Love
“sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, stays there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church, which he forgot.”
Source: Selected poems
“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
Source: East of Eden
“Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.”
“Sometimes a milk mustache is just a milk mustache.”
“Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.”
Source: Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back
“Sometimes a minute is really the difference between success and failure. There are times when you finish with ten seconds left, and one extra minute could've meant everything. You almost have to think of it as a sporting-event type of atmosphere: A football game is sixty minutes long. Think of how many games could be won or lost if the team had one more minute?”
“Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Sometimes a "mistake" can end up being the best decision you ever make.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Sometimes a misty lake becomes so calm in the early morning that a person who is boating thinks he is dead, as if there is only existence but not himself!”
“Sometimes a moment of solitude is just a faded sorrow. You remember fringes of it, but forgot most of it. Moved on from the sadness, but still find comfort in the thoughts.”
“Sometimes a moment of survival is about navigating between rage and joy.”
“Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.”
“Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.”
“Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.”
“Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.”
“Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.”
Source: Selected poems
“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,
and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock
like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it
and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint
or a pile of rubble.”
Source: Inseminating the Elephant
“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.”
Source: The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...
“Sometimes a new face carries the echo of an old wound, just to see if you’ve healed.”
“Sometimes a night of over-eating leaves you hungry for something you can't name. An emptiness haunted me. An emptiness I didn't have a name for until I met Jeb. Now, I' m starving.”
“Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.”
“Sometimes a pad on the back or just a simple word of comfort is all that it takes to bring someone under heavy stress back to balance.”
“Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs.”
“Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.”
Source: Killosophy
“Sometimes a perceived obstacle is just an opportunity in disguise.”
“Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.”
Source: Imaginary Girls
“Sometimes, a perfect sandwich is not just about the sandwich itself, but about the setting. The experience of eating the sandwich. Context can elevate a great sandwich to a spiritual experience.”
Source: The Pairing
“Sometimes a person can say I'm sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.”
“Sometimes a person has the free well to talk, but a hundred percent of those times he/she is not free to judge someone else. Hesitate for a couple of seconds before you initiate a conversation about someone else and tell yourself, "what if I was a person where someone else talks about me?”
Source: The Herok
“Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.”