S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”
Source: Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Sometimes by not knowing the truth we make incorrect judgments about situations”
“Sometimes, by the way, you may find that a book does not really have any themes. It is just a string of topics, surrounded, of course, by methodological introductions to methodology, and theoretical introductions to theory. These are quite indispensable to the writing of books by men without ideas. And so is lack of intelligibility.”
Source: The Sociological Imagination
“Sometimes by water
'and sometimes by the wind,
'my random lines on sand will be
'erased. What am I now? A ruddy rage?
'He said losing and winning matters not at all!
'He told! Unbecoming is a part of becoming again...”
Source: Moving for Moksha
“Sometimes, Calista could feel the grief as if it seeped down from the previous generation — sadness as a hereditary condition.”
Source: What Stays Buried
“Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.”
Source: Elizabeth and Her German Garden
“Sometimes Callum held the guitar like a newborn, cradling, delicate, other times it was like a lover, rising and falling beneath his fingers. He knew how to read and work an audience. He knew when to be dark and somber, and when to be emotional and gregarious. He knew, somehow, the intentions of the people before him, he knew what they needed, and if he was able, he gave it to them. That night was pure magic.”
Source: When Autumn Leaves
“Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.”
“Sometimes candles, from which you do not know where they come from, light up your dark path; and then they disappear as mysteriously as they came! And in this case, the best thing to do is not try to solve this mystery, because some mysteries prefer to remain a mystery!”
“Sometimes Carlie hands me the squirt bottle of "Bam" (an acronym for something that begins, ominously, with "butyric" - the rest of it has been worn off the label) and lets me do the bathrooms. No service ethic challenges me here to new heights of performance. I just concentrate on removing the pubic hairs from the bathtubs, or at least the dark ones that I can see.”
Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
“Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.”
“Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.”
“Sometimes celebrating, enjoying, and laughing seem almost inappropriate in a world as broken as ours. We look around and see panic on the faces of everyone we see. Tragedies become ordinary. How, in good conscience, can we laugh and celebrate and eat pizza? I believe we must celebrate - because celebration is one of the most effective weapons we have against the darkness of our day. The real grief of the state of our world is the pervasive fear that settles in our hearts.”
Source: The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time
“Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.”
Source: Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue
“Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging, speaking up and doing something to make a difference. We can each make a difference...because each of us is already part of the community where racism exists & thrives.”
“Sometimes change in our homes has to start with a change in our thinking. There are two main types of people who are unhappy with their homes:
The Overthinkers
You don't love your home, and you are out and see a pretty trinket that you are drawn to. It's not expensive, it makes you happy, and for whatever reason it brings a little meaning to you. You think it's just your style. But you don't buy it because you have no idea what you will do with it. You go home to your empty house and wonder why it's so cold and uninviting. You have empty rooms and empty tables... You should go back out and purchase that little trinket. But you are afraid of making the wrong choice, so you do nothing. You think you're safe because you aren't taking any chances, but the cost of your risklessness is a non-homey home.
The Underthinkers
You don't love your home, and you are out and see a pretty trinket that you are drawn to. It's not expensive, it makes you happy, and for whatever reason it brings a little meaning to you. You think it's just your style. So you buy it. And you come home and cram it onto the coffee table with all of your other meaningful trinkets... But really you should take it back because you have enough trinkets. You are putting all of your time and energy into little trinkets when your walls need to be painted, or maybe your home is actually finished in a way and you are avoiding the next thing you are meant to be doing. You think it's not a big deal because it was just a few dollars and you can sell it at your next yard sale. In five years, you realize you have a part-time job purchasing trinkets and then selling them for a fraction of the price at yard sales that you don't feel like having.”
“Sometimes change is just what you need.”
Source: Royals
“Sometimes change is what you need to do the things you never dared to do—to focus on big dreams and make them real.”
Source: The Extensive Philosophy of Life: Daily Quotes
“Sometimes change makes us apprehensive, but we can’t escape it, because change is constant.”
Source: The Healing Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to Positive Vibes
“Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.”
Source: Plan B
“Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do.”
“Sometimes Chaos Is The Most Beautiful Canvas”
Source: Beautiful Chaos: A Free Verse Reflection
“Sometimes chaos is the very thing that deliberately shakes up our neatly ordered world’s in order to get us out of the neatly ordered ruts that have kept us stuck.”
“Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.”
“Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.”
“Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.”
Source: Simply Magic
“Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.”
Source: The Last Dragonslayer
“Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.”
“Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.”
“Sometimes claims of polyfragmentation and ongoing abuse and victimisation can become a kind of ‘badge of honour’: it can be an earnest, unconscious demonstration proving that we cannot recover, rather than the tragic reality of overwhelming suffering that will take a lot of hard work and dedication to overcome.”
“Sometimes clichés are true.”
“Sometimes clients have a sophisticated view of their design problem, sometimes they do not. I often spend time with the client redefining the problem, going back to the beginning. Often the problem is just a symptom. Sometimes you have to move back in order to move forward to understand what the nature of the solution should be.”
“Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.”
“Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.”
“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.”
Source: Necessary Lies
“Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.”
“Sometimes companies prioritize market share over profitability. That may be a good short term strategy, but it's unsustainable and there's a strict time limit on that whether company leadership will admit it or not.”
“Sometimes, compassion became something even more startling: love. It was through these moments of compassion that forgiveness became imaginable.”
Source: Not the Perfect Victim
“Sometimes complex Life situations will bring you to your knees. The only option then is to not fight Life, but to surrender to it, to flow with it. Because you don’t know what to do. Well, what do you do when you don’t know what to do? When you flow with Life, you will always be taken to where you must arrive – without friction, without resistance, peacefully.”
“Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group or as a couple, or for the benefit of the team. Sometimes compromise is dangerous. We need to guard against compromising our standards to gain the approval or love of someone else. Decide when you can, and when you cannot, compromise. If it's not harmful and you are ambivalent about a decision, then compromise. If it could lead to breaking your values, compromise isn't a good idea.”
Source: More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations
“Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.”
“Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.”
“Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay.”
“Sometimes conspiracy theories are true. Most of the time they're not.”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
“Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.”
“Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!”
“Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.”
“Sometimes countries have to go through periods of crises and then rediscover why it's important to be bipartisan and compromise and if you haven't had a deep crisis for a while, you feel like you have the luxury of going on your own way.”
“Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.”
“Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.”