S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes a solution gets rid of at most one problem, but causes, comes with, or leads to at least two problems.”
“Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.”
“Sometimes a song is more than just a song. First the fire...then the rain.”
Source: ...Then The Rain
“Sometimes a song sounds exactly the way you want your life to feel. Sometimes it makes you believe you can change it.”
Source: Honey
“Sometimes a soul chooses a path so challenging that we draw others into deeper questions.
Why am I here?
What have I been giving?”
Source: Reading the Soul
“Sometimes a soul, when it sees the chance to have what it's always wanted, doesn't have the courage to seize it.”
Source: The Midnight Children
“Sometimes, a spontaneous celebration is all it takes to step out of life's fog.”
“Sometimes a stare comes from too much anxiety or stress. Your system can become overwhelmed." I didn't know it then. but parts inside were scared because he was looking at us so closely. He's getting too close. He's going to find out about us. I didn't make the effort to try to catch any of these thoughts.”
Source: The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Sometimes, a step back is the only way forward.”
“Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.”
“Sometimes a step forward needs a step back.”
“Sometimes a storm in your life is what will
blow you to the place you are longing to be.”
“Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go.”
“Sometimes a story idea will come to me, and suddenly I've figured out the whole thing, and I feel like I'm collaborating with something other than myself.”
“Sometimes a street is so quiet, so green, so peaceful, so unreal that one feels himself not on the street but in the mysterious atmosphere of an extraordinary house!”
“Sometimes a strikeout means that the slugger’s girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that the shortstop’s baby daughter has a pain in her head that won’t go away. And handicapping is for amateur golfers, not ballplayers. Pitchers don’t ease off on the cleanup hitter because of the lumps just discovered in his wife’s breast. Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.
Perhaps they are. I cherish a theory I once heard propounded by G.Q. Durham that professional baseball is inherently antiwar. The most overlooked cause of war, his theory runs, is that it’s so damned interesting. It takes hard effort, skill, love and a little luck to make times of peace consistently interesting. About all it takes to make war interesting is a life. The appeal of trying to kill others without being killed yourself, according to Gale, is that it brings suspense, terror, honor, disgrace, rage, tragedy, treachery and occasionally even heroism within range of guys who, in times of peace, might lead lives of unmitigated blandness. But baseball, he says, is one activity that is able to generate suspense and excitement on a national scale, just like war. And baseball can only be played in peace. Hence G.Q.’s thesis that pro ball-players—little as some of them may want to hear it—are basically just a bunch of unusually well-coordinated guys working hard and artfully to prevent wars, by making peace more interesting.”
“Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious.”
“Sometimes, a sudden 'heart-attack' jolt that reveals your true level is more valuable than a slow and comfortable start toward growth.”
“Sometimes a supplement that is making you sicker is actually making you better!”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“Sometimes a target just stands in front of you and calls you to itself, and this call is so magical that you immediately set off towards it like a sleepwalker!”
“Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.”
“Sometimes a terrible forest fire breaks out, an entire forest turns to ash, but a lonely tree standing outside the forest shouts "I'm here!" When you think you are safe among the stupid crowds, remember the noble stance of the smart tree standing outside the crowd!”
“Sometimes a thick fog suddenly comes and covers your life! First, you are surprised, then you are scared, then in all that uncertainty and helplessness you start to learn something and finally as the fog clears you turn back and look at the fog and wave goodbye, thanking it for teaching you something important about life - despite all the hardships you have endured!”
“Sometimes a thing happens that's so bad that it feels like things should be made to look on the outside, the way they feel on the inside.”
Source: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1
“Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry”
“Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.”
Source: Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)
“Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)”
Source: Point Omega
“Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.”
“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.”
Source: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Sometimes a thousand people say you are going in the wrong direction, but if you are a thousand times sure, keep walking!”
“Sometimes a tragedy must happen to keep a soul on schedule. This is the reason for things that seem to have no reason. This is the reason that we cannot fathom when we are going through it.
Perhaps I will get very sick. People wonder why cancer exists when it is just a clever method to teach people lessons about love and loss. It borrows time or steals it depending on the needs of Heaven. It is a vehicle to get us where we need to be. It calls us home because something needs us there.”
Source: Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
“Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.”
Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung
“Sometimes a voice inside you says, "You've worked hard, stop and rest"; sometimes another voice inside you says, "Never stop, keep working even if you're dead tired!" And you know what, most of the big successes come when you listen to this second voice!”
“Sometimes a voice is there to give you warning, at other times it’s just a voice in the head, alerting you that the landslide’s under way and that your life is changing forever in that instant; the moment you touch a loved one’s face and realize they’re too deeply still for sleep, they’re gone.”
Source: Richard's Feet
“Sometimes a voice within you tells you to leave your warm house at midnight and wander in the cold streets! Yes, do not get too used to comfort, because the reality of the universe is not built on comfort, but on terrible difficulties!”
“Sometimes, a war saves people.”
Source: A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
“Sometimes a weakness felt like a blade turned inward, but that meant it was sharp enough that when turned around, it could be a weapon. You just had to be willing to face it and adjust your grip. And that made it magic far more powerful than any celestial weapon.”
Source: Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes
“Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about the (perfect) game, but I don't remember when it happened last.”
“Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.”
“Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned.”
Source: Megan's Mate: The Calhouns
“Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.”
“Sometimes a wolf has to stand alone to find out what he’s made of.”
Source: The Vow
“Sometimes a woman has experienced too much life to have any blush left in her cheeks, but the man who puts it there is someone not easily forgotten.”
Source: Five Weeks
“Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than dogs have hairs. She must just simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.”
“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“Sometimes a woman offers a man friendship out of pity, as a consolation, or as a consolation prize, for his failure to make her want him, or at least agree to be in a relationship with him.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.”
Source: Jude the Obscure: Easyread Edition
“Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.”
“Sometimes a workweek will grind you into sand, pulverize you into particles.”
Source: The Colossus of New York