S Quotes
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“Sometimes divorce isn't an earthshattering loss. Sometimes it's just two people waking up out of a fog.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Sometimes divulging your vulnerabilities without any kind of filter can make you more human, but then again, it can also provide material that can be used against you.”
Source: Ghostgirl: Lovesick
“Sometimes doesn't mean behaving nice, means you will got the same answer, it never means that everything done in positive = returns positive.... sometimes comes and negative.”
“Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.”
“Sometimes doing evil requires you to have the angelic patience”
“Sometimes, doing justice and loving
mercy means simply noticing, caring, and acting without needing
recognition. That’s walking humbly with God.”
“Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.”
“Sometimes doing nothing is the only right thing to do”
“Sometimes doing nothing makes way for everything.”
“Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.”
“Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.”
Source: Pearl in the Mist
“Sometimes doing the right thing doesn’t come easily.”
Source: The Only Way Is Up
“Sometimes doing the right thing is the hardest thing in the entire world. Sometimes it costs you everything you have.' —Enid Healy”
Source: Magic for Nothing
“Sometimes doing what's right for your conscience is not always the most popular decision, but I can guarantee that in retrospect you won't regret the choice you made.”
Source: Binge
“Sometimes doors get closed...
Just chill up men, life does not end. Society crippled so don't label yourself.”
Source: 4 Hours 49 Minutes 19 Seconds
“Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.”
“Sometimes, down in the subway, a train Maxine's riding on will slowly be overtaken by a local or an express on the other track, and in the darkness of the tunnel, as the windows of the other train move slowly past, the lighted panels appear one by one, like a series of fortune-telling cards being deal and slid in front of her. The Scholar, The Unhoused, The Warrior Thief, The Haunted Woman... After a while Maxine has come to understand that the faces framed in these panels are precisely those out of all the city millions she must in the hour be paying most attention to, in particular those whose eyes actually meet her own - they are the day's messengers from whatever the Beyond has for a Third World, where the days are assembled one by one under non-union conditions. Each messenger carrying the props required for their character, shopping bags, books, musical instruments, arrived here out of darkness, bound again into darkness, with only a minute to deliver the intelligence Maxine needs. At some point naturally she begins to wonder if she might not be performing the same role for some face looking back out another window at her.”
“Sometimes dramas or happenings from 10 or 20 years ago are kept alive by people on a daily basis, whether it's personal issues or bigger things such as what happened with Princess Diana in your country. Some people are still obsessed by that... or JFK and can't let it go. Films and newspaper articles keep being born out of those events.”
“Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.”
“Sometimes dreams are all that keep a person alive when things get hard”
Source: The Chosen
“Sometimes, dreams are delayed by the people you allow in your space. Keep time wasters away if you want to succeed in your race. Time is precious, and so are the dreams you have—guard them every step of the way.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.”
“Sometimes Dreams take time to come true, But it hurts when it comes true and you are not with that person with who you dreamed about it”
“Sometimes due to God’s mercy, the time in God’s plan can be stretched or extended”
“Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.”
“Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.”
“Sometimes during a conversation with a journalist - where you are answering things you never normally talk about, not even with some of your closest friends - you end up being quite confessional, and you don't think about the amplification of that. No matter how fancy these journalists are, they have editors or political leanings behind their publications, which means that, basically, they're going to shape what you've said into an article they've already written. So you have to be really careful with your words.”
“Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend's gonna have to prove they're your friend, and you're gonna have to prove you're their friend.”
“Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the script is incredible, and the actors are great, and everything is working out brilliantly." And then you see it, and you kind of go, "Oh god, it's not as good as I thought it was," and it doesn't get an audience to watch it. It only does a couple of festivals and then dies and whatever.”
“Sometimes during my set I invite volunteers up on stage to get speed-roasted and I'm worried that I may have hundreds of people rushing the stage all at once. Luckily I'm a black belt in karate and I can fend them off.”
“Sometimes, during our lives, there comes a moment when everything stops, time stands still, and our souls become trapped in that very moment. It's like a coiled spring that can extend and stretch, but ultimately, it always returns to its original shape—back to that frozen moment in time.
For me, that moment came when we said goodbye. Since then, I've been frozen in that moment, unable to move forward.”
“Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate, heard only with the soul, and I realize I brought it with me, was never taught it nor can I efficiently teach it to another.”
“Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life. I don't know who it was, but someone said that careful attention paid to anything is a window into the universe. Pausing to think this way, even for a brief moment, is very important. It gives quality to my day.”
“Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a crackling, hissing roar; out of this background, at irregular intervals, emerged brief whistles and peeps like the cries of demented birds. It was an eerie sound, for it had nothing to do with Man; it was as lonely and meaningless as the murmur of waves on a beach, or the distant crash of thunder beyond the horizon.”
“Sometimes during the night when the crying gets louder, you pledge to yourself to never have kids again. But as soon as they sleep on your shoulder, you cannot think of anything more worthwhile than them.”
“Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side matters. What is central to business is the joy of creating.”
“Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.”
Source: Inkheart
“sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.”
Source: A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader
“Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.”
“Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.”
“Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.”
“Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides”
“Sometimes Emily was so lonely that it was like being invisible.”
Source: The Land of Neverendings
“Sometimes emotion is gentle, like rain feeding the river to nourish life, but sometimes it explodes like a rainstorm whose floodwaters wipe out bridges and homes.”
“Sometimes, emotions aren't worth holding on to for too long.”
Source: Laurel Everywhere
“Sometimes ending a week is tough. You remember the failings of yesterdays then anticipate the frustrations of today and you get sour!
You know, it helps to start Fridays with a cup of "GO-juice"
(G▪︎ GOD & O▪︎Optimism)
I'm hoping you drink deep today...
Jn 7:37-38
Good Morning.”
“Sometimes, especially right now, I feel how much he’s drawn to me, but then other times it seems like he works so hard to deny whatever attraction there might be between us.”
Source: Verity
“Sometimes Evelyn got stuck on a word, using it for everything until it started to mean nothing and everything. This week, it was “world.” Everything was the world. The world was everything. It made sense from that vantage point, but the previous week, it had been “wax,” which had the bonus quality of being both a noun and a verb. I waxed her breakfast of wax and then had the wax to give her wax when she really wanted the world. World? Whirled. Whorled. Were Eld. Was she working her way through the dictionary? It was like the language of flowers, a song heard in a different lifetime.”
Source: Entry Level
“Sometimes even a monster is no monster. Sometimes it's beautiful and we fall in love with all that story, more than any film or TV program could ever hope to provide. Even after a thousand pages we don't want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live there.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft