S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.”
“Sometimes am so worried,i complain to God that He's not been listening to my prayers,and then my son comes and says,"hey dad,why are you not mom?"ilook at him and say,God.you've already answered my prayers with the best..who knows whats on the way for me?.”
“Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.”
“Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.”
“Sometimes, amplifying and activating certain systems can be a good thing. But at times it comes at the expense of our inner peace. Our job is to strike a balance.”
Source: The Mood Book: Crystals, Oils, and Rituals to Elevate Your Spirit
“sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend”
“Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.”
“Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.”
“Sometimes an actor doesn't sell an idea 100 percent. It just sounds like something that's coming out of their head. You can hear the gears whirring and they're trying to think of what the smart approach is to getting a line across.”
“Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.”
“Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.”
“Sometimes an angel is found in the dark.”
Source: Alpha & Omega
“Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.”
“Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.”
“Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.”
“Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.”
“Sometimes an author is torn between the desire to present certain material and a guilty awareness that others will not approve. In an attempt to deflect criticism, he apologizes as he goes, pointing out that the minstrel show, strip club visit, or cheap, all-purpose servants in a Third World setting are terribly, terribly distasteful to him, and he disapproves as much as anyone—more! Meanwhile, he continues to wallow in these scenes, exposing what everyone instantly recognizes as the world of his fantasies. The result is often reminiscent of a sixties sexploitation movie on the dangers of promiscuity.”
“Sometimes an earthquake or a volcano shake the world, sometimes a virus, sometimes a huge typhoon, sometimes a tsunami! All of them have a common message: Awake to the Truth! And what is the truth? The truth is that Earth and the universe are not a region of order, but a region of chaos and survival!”
“Sometimes an ember is all we need.”
Source: Mud, Sweat and Tears
“Sometimes an empty street is more beautiful than when it was full of people! Why? Because the beauty of a painting with ants crawling on it can only be understood when the ants are gone!”
“Sometimes an evil man acted as a hero, and sometimes a victim became a tormenter. Criminals exhibited unexpected grace, and honest men had moments of great weakness. There was a strange, terrible, beautiful, complicated universe inside them all where nothing was simply black or white.”
Source: Where the Truth Lives
“Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.”
Source: Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics
“Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.”
“Sometimes an insult can become a motivation, but only if you know how to use it.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 2
“Sometimes an invisible hand touches your life; you plan to travel to the east but you go to the west; you plan to meet someone but you meet someone else; you plan to fly in the sky but you crawl on the ground! And this invisible hand is what makes this life mystical!”
“Sometimes an obstacle is placed in front of us by God for the purpose of upgrading our vision and experiencing our dream at a higher level. The obstacle can only be here by permission of God, so it has to help us become what He is seeing about us.”
“Sometimes an old door must be closed to open a new one.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 4
“Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can.”
“Sometimes an old photograph, an old friend, an old letter will remind you that you are not who you once were, for the person who dwelt among them, valued this, chose that, wrote thus, no longer exists. Without noticing it you have traversed a great distance; the strange has become familiar and the familiar if not strange at least awkward or uncomfortable, an outgrown garment. And some people travel far more than others ... Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.”
Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“Sometimes an opportunity occurred to speak over the phone, and it was never less than 5 hours. They could do their own deeds, or be silent. Purely the acknowledgment of the presence made their two hearts warmer. He was never first to drop a call.”
Source: Abelard and Heloise: Youth and friendship
“Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.”
“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words."
"You brought me back to life when I didn’t even know I was dead inside."
"Everyone has a story, Archer. Everyone has a past. It’s what you do with it that matters."
"I didn’t want to fix him. I just wanted to love him while he healed himself."
"You make me want to try. You make me believe that I’m not too far gone."
"You taught me that I wasn’t invisible. That I mattered. That I was enough."
"You healed me in places I didn’t even know were broken."
"I had learned that the most powerful voices were the ones that often spoke the least, and yet meant the most.”
Source: Archer's Voice
“Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.”
“Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves.”
“Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.”
“Sometimes. And sometimes not.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“Sometimes, Andrei would feel like the moon. When he dined in solitude, when he masturbated to the couple at the hotel, or when he finished a book he could tell no one around him about, he felt singular and unaccompanied, like the stupid, radiating circle stuck in the sky. His soul would glow softly, through the darkness, deadened, but there, as if solemnly leaving a light on for anyone to come join him. Andrei would feel so far away from everyone else, like a floating object in space, lost in orbit, that no hand worried about, remembered, or attempted to retrieve.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“Sometimes, Andy, the people you think you can count on, they let you down in a bad way, and that's hard to take. But for the most part, you give a man something to live up to, you tell him he can be more than he is now, more than other people think he'll ever be, and he'll try his godsdamned best to make it true.”
Source: Jade City
“Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.”
“Sometimes anger and arrogance cloud clear judgment. You hastily sever ties with people only to learn the hard way, you need them more than you care to admit. "Pride goeth before a fall". And there's no fall deeper than one from a burned bridge.”
“Sometimes anger is simply exhaustion wearing a sharper mask. Sometimes it is sadness that has forgotten how to cry. Sometimes it is the heart’s last attempt to protect itself when it no longer knows how to ask for help. And sometimes it is the memory of an old wound that has mistaken the present moment for the past.”
Source: THE SELF WAS SIMPLY IN THE WAY
“Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them that although they must submit to capture, search, and confinement, they will not otherwise be harmed and will be set free at the conclusion of hostilities. If we capture wild animals, however, we cannot explain that we are not threatening their lives. A wild animal cannot distinguish an attempt to overpower and confine from an attempt to kill; the one causes as much terror as the other.”
“Sometimes another person’s fear tells you that everything you're about to do is right.”
“Sometimes, Anselm – and especially with the most important parts of our lives – we cannot share who we are. We can give the facts, as information, to a stranger; but with a friend we want to give that little bit more, something that changes the facts into flesh and spirit . . . and at certain times we can’t do it. Because ultimately we can’t give away our depths: they lie beyond our grasp. It is when we most want to do so that we realize how immense we are . . . more vast and mysterious than the night sky; and alone.”
Source: The Day of the Lie
“Sometimes answering the question of where we’re at in life is best approached by asking where we’re not, because there’s a good chance that that’s where we had original intended to be.”
“Sometimes answers come to you in ways that only you can understand. That is why it is so important to have a clear mind to receive and understand the message.”
“Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.”
Source: Rebel Queen
“Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.”
“Sometimes are feats aren’t so fabulous, they’re just dubious—but either way, they’re fun to talk about.”
“Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.”
Source: On the Art of Poetry