S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems”
“Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.”
“Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.”
“Sometimes happiness is like the sound of a plane overhead. You look up to see it but the plane's not there. No matter where you look you can't find it on the sky, although the sound is still there and growing louder. You get a little frantic searching. At the same time you're thinking, this is stupid. But you keep looking and if you do finally see it, you feel absolved. Most of my life I'd been looking for happiness in the wrong parts of the sky.”
Source: The Wooden Sea
“Sometimes, happiness is not found in success, but on the face of the person standing beside you when you succeed.”
Source: The Show Is Over
“Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.”
Source: Hector and the Secrets of Love
“Sometimes happiness quietly curls up in your heart just to snuggle.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I'm opening a supermarket for him.”
“Sometimes hate hurts more than love feels good. Just have to realize it's because we're more used to love. Let the haters stumble by.”
“Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes, together as one and against all others, break all of their wings to make sure it crashes.”
“Sometimes hate is silence, some stuff are made in such way that they are in front of your eyes.”
“Sometimes having a big amount of time is a gift, because by the time you're at the end of the run you feel like you've figured it out finally or discovered everything you can about the character. Sometimes that's not the case.”
“Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.”
“Sometimes having coffee with your best friend, is all the therapy you need.”
“Sometimes, having friends who were like family was a good thing, and sometimes, it was like having an endless supply of very nosy, very irritating siblings.”
Source: Taken by Storm
“Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.”
Source: From What I Remember
“Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.”
“Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.”
Source: DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series): The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, After the Race, Two Gallants, The Boarding House, A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Mother, Grace & The Dead
“Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Sometimes he counts himself to sleep by imagining the miles between stars like the succession of footsteps cleaving him from his home, as if mastering the distance in thought might blunt the separation. But if a man cannot return to the place of his birth, then what is there to stay his restless feet? What center will hold him from wandering endlessly? It should not be so difficult, he thinks, to know one’s place in the order of things.”
Source: The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
“Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Sometimes, he does not have much, but nothing stops him from being a fruitful man. Sometimes, the bumps in his path come too hard and too fast. Yet, he does not stop aspiring to live a fruitful life. His aspirations are like lanterns in the dark, which inspire him to shine his light.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“Sometimes he does talk back, but sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he’s not there; and from time to time I believe this was all nothing but imaginary.”
“Sometimes he does the brilliant things really well.”
“Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.”
“Sometimes he felt as if he'd been born in the wrong century. The people of this time were all wrong for him, and he was all wrong for them. But he refused to become something he wasn't just for society's approval.”
Source: The Watchmaker's Lady
“Sometimes he felt his loneliness. But these moments of solitude and loneliness gave meaning to his existence.”
“Sometimes he felt his loneliness. But these moments of solitude and loneliness gave meaning to his existence. He would keep drifting from moment to moment - inhaling the fragrances of these moments as one inhaled from the flowers in a garden.”
“Sometimes he felt his loneliness. But these moments of solitude and loneliness gave meaning to his existence. He would keep drifting from moment to moment - inhaling the fragrances of these moments like one inhaled from the flowers in a garden!”
“Sometimes he felt like a victim constantly revived in order to suffer more.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“Sometimes, he gets on my nerves;
At other times, I burn the ladder.”
“Sometimes he hated that voice in his brain, the one that slapped him upside the head anytime he got too stupid. Funny, it happened a lot with Sienna.”
Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series
“Sometimes he knew it was best to believe the stories you told yourself in order to get through a day. After all, didn't the cornerstone of sober living preach getting through life one day at a time?”
Source: Anna K: A Love Story
“Sometimes he remembered how he had heard that soldiers in war when entrenched under the enemy's fire, if they have nothing to do, try hard to find some occupation the more easily to bear the danger. To Pierre all men seemed like those soldiers, seeking refuge from life: some in ambition, some in cards, some in framing laws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in politics, some in sport, some in wine, and some in governmental affairs. ‘Nothing is trivial, and nothing is important, it's all the same—only to save oneself from it as best one can,’ thought Pierre. ‘Only not to see it, that dreadful it!”
Source: War and Peace
“Sometimes," he said, "it is necessary to go back before we can move forward.”
Source: Simply Love
“Sometimes, he said, you feel the irreplaceability of a moment in time—its perfect ephemeral uniqueness. Yes? You know?”
Source: Crazy Sorrow
“Sometimes,’ he says [Barney], his voice shaking as well,’ parents can’t protect their kids even though they love them more than anything in the world.”
Source: Once
“Sometimes he screams into the darkness, just to remind himself that he can.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
“Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.”
“Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.”
Source: The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology
“Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.”
Source: When You Were Mine
“Sometimes he talked silently to himself, repeating the same thoughts. How long has the persistent brother been eluding me? How long has he had an arrangement with my wife? Am I not the humiliated one? Trusting them both?”
Source: Murder on the Naval Base
“Sometimes he thinks of me as a child he must protect, and sometimes as a woman he would like to bed, but does he ever truly see me as his queen?”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn't always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.”
“Sometimes he though her coolness not so much a cover as the thing itself, an emptiness”
Source: Poor George
“Sometimes he thought he plunged through darkness eternally and heard nothing but the Devil’s amiable laughter, and knew nothing but the heat of his own Hell.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Sometimes, he thought of himself as an elephant walking through the china store, breaking everything in his path and still expecting people not to be angry with the damage he made, but rather to admire his strength and his endurance.”
Source: Truth According to Michael
“Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.”
Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale