S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.”
“Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.”
“Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!”
“Sometimes a year in music is overshadowed by music”
“Sometimes, abandon the moving crowd and try to be a care-free sage.
Rather than a roaring, or a drizzling black cloud, try to become a rainbow adding all hues to the end of the sky.
Sometimes, rescue the soul from the captivity of your body, your soul also owns some desires, listen to the anxious heart and free the soul.
Don’t aim to be the loftiest mountain talking to clouds, sometimes attempt to become a valley befriending every passer-by.
Sometimes, cease the war ongoing between the four walls of the self, and surrender the swords and endeavour to live yourself.
Sometimes, withdraw the yearning to compete with the sun, why not just be the tiny ray peeping out from the vent.
Sometimes, resurrection would happen; this life, this dilemma, every bit is perishable. Before it befalls, try to offer the entire life’s namaaz in a single prostration.
Sometimes, hang the restrictions on a nail, free the wings burdened under it, take its support and fly in the sky of dreams.
Sometimes, instead of hiding the words behind the veil of ink, or hiding it on the paper, try to unveil it with your tongue.”
Source: Blanks & Blues
“Sometimes abiding by the strictest rules is folly. Give me flexibility, imagination, and audacity over caution any day.”
Source: Pack's Posse
“Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance — although not nearly as often as many developers believe — but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast.”
Source: Java Concurrency in Practice
“Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching.”
“Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully”
“Sometimes
Across the fields of yesterday
She sometimes comes to me
A little girl just back from play
the girl I used to be
And yet she smiles so wistfully
once she has crept within
I wonder if she hopes to see
the woman I might have been—
—1933”
Source: My Life with Bonnie and Clyde
“Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.”
“Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.”
“Sometimes acting, particularly in film, can feel so contained. You need to be small and not overplay things, so it's such a relief to be able to go as far as you can go with an emotion or a feeling or a speech.”
“Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.”
“Sometimes actors don't remember their lines. At its worst, this means they 'dry' and silence descends. More commonly, the original lines are paraphrased in some alarming way. It's hard to say which is more painful for the author. Less serious, but quite irritating is to hear the word 'Well' inserted at the beginning of speeches.”
“Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.”
“Sometimes adopting a “fuck it” attitude, as self-diagnosed overthinker Steve Kerr did during his NBA career, can be important to help overcome an endless loop of debilitating thoughts and irrelevant distractions.”
Source: Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything
“Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.”
“Sometimes adversity becomes the fuel in which we run on.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering.”
“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”
“Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.”
“Sometimes... After all the heartache, tears, and chaos, things seem to fall into place. I am in love with the serendipitous poetry with which the universe expresses itself.”
“Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'”
“sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.”
Source: Trainspotting
“Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.”
Source: The Hawthorne Legacy
“Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.”
“Sometimes all colors of happiness fades away, sometimes sadness finds it's own colors.”
“Sometimes all I feel like doing is to sit next to you and stare at the sky together.”
“Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.”
“Sometimes all I want or need is someone to tell me I'm strong. Somehow it makes me strong just to hear it.”
Source: Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters
“Sometimes all it takes for unity, is a song we can all sing together.”
Source: Terra Dark
“Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.”
“Sometimes all it takes is a little watering everyday and a sunny day to follow, that's how weeds become flowers and new dawns rise - why would it be any less then for a human life?”
“sometimes all it takes is a stylish outfit to remind someone that they can be more than they imagined—really give the confidence to start over again. And when everyone’s judging you by what you’re wearing, or if you look professional enough to give you that break … it can really make the difference.”
Source: How to Choose a Guy in 10 Days
“Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.”
Source: The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition
“Sometimes all it takes is just a smile to change somebody's weather.”
“Sometimes, all it takes is one arm wrap-round. And a heart’s home.”
Source: Slayers
“Sometimes all it takes is one Deep Breath and everything falls into place.”
Source: IgnitingYOU: How 52 Weeks of Inspiration and Action Can Lead You to Your Dreams
“Sometimes all it takes is one person to speak their truth. Speak yours.”
“Sometimes all it takes is one wild idea, and someone brave enough to say it out loud.”
Source: I Have An Idea!: Some Bonds Begin With Survival
“Sometimes all it takes to awaken a dream is meeting someone who is living the dream.”
“Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.”
“Sometimes all it takes to change your life is to change your routine.”
Source: How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
“Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.”
Source: Allegiant
“Sometimes, all it takes to see the right path is a flash of brilliant insight from someone else.”
Source: The Young Elites
“Sometimes all it takes to stop traffic is for that right pair of red pumps.”
“Sometimes, all that’s left to say is, that it wasn’t meant to be.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.”