S Quotes
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“Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.”
Source: Reena and Other Stories
“Sometimes a person has to let go of something to take hold of something else.”
Source: The Girl from Everywhere
“Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.”
“Sometimes, a person isn’t looking to increase their lifestyle, status or ego when they fall in love. Sometimes, they just want that special someone that is just like them. The one person that truly understands how they suffer because they have gone through it too. They want to wake up beside someone that knows their trials intimately. They want a teammate that doesn’t say they get it, but someone who knows it, lived it and survived it. They have been looking for that person their entire life because they feel alone and misunderstood. They are tired of people telling them not to care about other people, when that is not who God designed them to be. The depth of their soul can’t be reached by their partner standing at the top looking down. They want to come home to their “own kind”--the person that has run the same dark corridors they have traveled in their mind. They want to build a life with someone that would never break their heart, push them away or give up on them. They don’t want the person that has to win. They want the rescuer that has been to the fearful boundaries of their heart, but knows the way back to life. When they meet this person they will never forget them because they will come into their life with all the fire they possess and never leave their soul.”
“Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.”
“Sometimes a person needs help because she needs it, not because her story is compelling or noble or strange enough to earn it, and sometimes you just do what you can. It doesn't make you any better, or any worse. It doesn't change you at all, except for the split second when you imagine that day when you will be the one who has to ask.”
Source: Make It Scream, Make It Burn
“Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.”
Source: Any Man of Mine
“Sometimes a person's life is longer than their years.”
Source: The Prophetess: Deborah's Story
“Sometimes a
person’s shadow says a lot about them than the person in
question themselves.”
Source: Heaven's Gate
“Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.”
“Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.”
“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
Source: Reflections
“Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing.”
“Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.”
Source: Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul
“Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.”
“Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“Sometimes a piece of the sun burned like a coin between my hands.”
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.”
“Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame, and I try to sketch out in writing how I am complicit in whatever dynamic it is I am illuminating. And sometimes it comes later, when I step back and challenge myself - am I being honest here?”
“Sometimes a policeman must confront people about lying. No one likes to be called a liar. But it is what it is! A fact is a fact! If someone is a liar, put them on notice. You should not be punished for doing the right thing. It is the job of a good investigator to get the truth.”
“Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.”
“Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.”
Source: Along for the Ride
“Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.”
“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days past like blood on snow. Such was the case in France, where even as the guillotine released a steady river of gore, Royalist insurrections were suppressed by what had become a sophisticated military.
In Toulon, the Royalist insurrection in 1793 led to an actual siege by republicans, spearheaded by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. The Royalists in Toulon, supported by the British and Spanish, were feared by the republicans as an existential threat to every hope and promise of the revolution. For months there were bombardments, cannon fire that made the windows in the prison tremble.”
Source: Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
“Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter.”
“Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not to no murder. You done right. Don't you kill nobody if you can help it.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the reluctant love drained painfully from me as blood drains from a deep wound. The tigers lapped my love's blood and remained enemies. The inhabitants of the day laughed at the gift I wanted to bring them, and I shut myself in my inner room to escape the betrayal of their arrogant mouths.”
“Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience.”
“Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.”
“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.”
“Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.”
“Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.”
Source: Golden
“Sometimes a shore almost captures you! Boats come, boats go, but you always stay on the same shore without knowing why! And you know what, do not try to understand why you stay there! Some things must be as they are!”
“Sometimes a short cut is just a short cut to disaster.”
“Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.”
“Sometimes a simple focused thought can change the whole world.”
“Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.”
Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
“Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.”
“Sometimes a single drop of water is so valuable for the very thirsty that he may hesitate to drink it immediately!”
“Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.”
“Sometimes a situation grows so tangled that words are useless.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Sometimes a slight pace change is all you need to snap out of a mental or pyhsical funk.”
“Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.”
“Sometimes, a small, sad part of Rachel wondered of perhaps he was having an affair. Arjun had had an affair, Swati had explained, with someone he had met at his tennis club. Why did people do that? Why did they have to betray each other, to make the problem between two people seem like they were really about someone else entirely? It was the coward's way, she thought, To throw someone else in the middle of your own fire.”
Source: Mother Land
“Sometimes a smile, a giggle can say more than words do; words are not that articulate. And if you use words where a smile is enough you will only spoil the game.”
Source: Krishna: The Man and his Philosophy
“Sometimes a smile can be more intriguing than a whole collection of words!”
Source: When Fate Conspires
“Sometimes a smile is all that is needed to change a person’s day and it cost me nothing to give.”
“Sometimes a soldier returns home and all he can do is share his story in the hopes that somehow, in some way, it helps another soldier make sense of things. And although the stories may not be perfect, sometimes just sharing is enough to make a difference.”
Source: Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir