S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes failing gives you the opportunity to build a better foundation.”
“Sometimes failing is what's needed. I think it can put people in a good mood, to see someone fail. Let people entertain themselves. I think that's one of the reasons people are so lonely in this country. Because they always have to rush out and have someone else in the room entertain them. It's terrible, the loneliness here. People live in coffins...”
Source: American Innovations
“Sometimes, failure can make you feel helpless, but when your focus is on success, you will make things happen.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one.”
“Sometimes failure is the beginning of success”
Source: Four Dead Queens
“Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.”
Source: JPod
“Sometimes failure makes your future because you set the past on fire.”
“Sometimes, failure uppercuts those who look down on other people.”
“Sometimes failures are necessary exercises to recap the lessons learnt”
“Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.”
Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
“Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you’ve done a scene 18 times. I don’t want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It’s funny finding what’s challenging about acting as you go.”
“Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going.”
“Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.”
“Sometimes familiar things were bad because they kept you stuck. Sometimes, no matter how much you've been hurt, no matter how scary something feels, it's imortant to take a deep breath, take the leap and do those scary things anyway, because they move you forward in life.”
“Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your cousins. I think everybody kind of has that same feeling. When you go through an accident together, when you go through a traumatic event, sometimes that brings you closer together.”
“Sometimes, family feels stranger than the person next to you on a train, and sometimes, a stranger feels more familiar than your own soul.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“Sometimes family isn't a thing we are born into but a choice we make. Sometimes" -Evie smiled-"the people who love ypu most in your life are the ones who choose you.”
Source: Apprentice to the Villain
“Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather have relatives than a book.”
“Sometimes family's not who you've been given. It's who you choose.”
Source: The Last Carolina Girl
“Sometimes family trauma skips a generation altogether and redoubles its hold on the following one. You may encounter grandchildren who silently shoulder the hurts and sufferings of their grandparents.”
Source: The Island of Missing Trees
“Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.”
Source: Effortless
“Sometimes fantasies are better than life.”
“Sometimes fascism comes to a country like a train that emits a thick black smoke and whistles very loudly, but some countries are so sleepy that it is too late when they have noticed this train!”
“Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.”
“Sometimes fate delivers a better choice than anything we can come up with ourselves.”
Source: Daughter of Crows
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't some thing that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that has nothing to do with you, This storm is you. Something inside you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up the sky like pulverized bones.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Sometimes fate is more curious and surprising than an unexpected and equally disgusting crime. It may be called destiny, fate, God, whoever's up there or down here rolling dice, he is certainly having a great laugh indeed.”
Source: Un probabile delitto
“Sometimes fate just plays a strange game of Scrabble with you.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Sometimes fate makes choices for us.”
Source: The Girl from Everywhere
“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.”
Source: Just One Year
“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you..." she trails off.”
Source: Just One Year
“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.”
“Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory.”
Source: The Bumps Are What You Climb On: Encouragement for Difficult Days
“Sometimes...fear does not subside and...one must choose to do it afraid.”
“Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.”
“Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.”
“Sometimes fear made for a stronger leash than we were willing to break.”
Source: Lessons in Heartbreak
“Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.”
“Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.”
Source: The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten
“Sometimes feeling blocked is simply a sign that we need to wait and let the natural course of events to unfold.”
“Sometimes feeling good isn’t about picking up more things to do, but about letting go of things that have nothing to do with you.”
“sometimes feeling like an empty room is what inspires u to fill it.”
Source: Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
“Sometimes, feels flexible is the one makes you falling down on the edge. I'm telling you, be more relevant in some case and you will stand firm!”
“Sometimes fiction can help bring the authentic feeling of a personal encounter to history in ways that are tough to manage in historical non-fiction. I like both genres, but I've definitely read non-fiction that reads like a snake's shed skin while purporting to describe the living, moving snake.”
“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.”
Source: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
“Sometimes fighting against evil is not a choice, but an imperative.”
“Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.”
“Sometimes film kills the room to dream.”