S Quotes
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“Sometimes, I think it's like a fable," he said. "One powerful god released all the evil things on the world. Another god, a god of light, could not undo what the other god had done, but he could give us something to make life worth living. So he gave us love."
"I'm working on it." He met her gaze. "Working on sharing with you. But I've been places where there are too many dead and I helped increase the body count. Each of those lives meant something to someone. And to the person themselves. But whatever lies beyond…You've helped me remember why it's worth fighting. Living. Even when the lines get so confusing you think you're losing your mind.”
Source: Mirror of My Soul
“Sometimes I think it’s my fate to meet more and more people and that if it weren’t, my life would be less chaotic. Virginia Woolf wrote that books continue each other and it seems to me that people continue each other too, spring ungodlike out of the heads and bodies of others, not clones but continuities, with ties that bind, loosely or closely. Some characters seem to fit better in some scenes than in others, have more to do with the space around them and the actors who preceded their appearance. Of course then there are the discontinuities…”
Source: Motion Sickness
“Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.”
“Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?”
“Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.”
“Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.”
“Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.”
“Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.”
Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW
“Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?”
“Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.”
“Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?”
“Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side”
“Sometimes I think life could be so much easier if I knew everything that was going to happen. If the Unknown could be obliterated, I wouldn't have to be afraid of it. I could finally know what it feels like to be fearless.”
Source: Something Like Fate
“Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.”
“Sometimes I think life twists you back onto the same roads you traveled as a child to teach you a lesson. That lesson being: you didn't know #$%& then, and you don't know #$%& now.”
Source: X-Men Times and Life of Lucas Bishop #2
“Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.”
“Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either specially hated by other animals or specially cherished. Instead of the truth, which is that he's just another animal on the plain. A smart one, but just another animal.”
“Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep going you have to renew. Wouldn't that be kind of genius? It would force you both to look at the relationship, and if it's not working, the marriage would expire so you could go on your merry way, or on the positive side of it, you could look at each other and say we really want to renew. What a way to keep it fresh!!”
“Sometimes I think maybe they were right all along, the people on the other side in Zombieland. Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose either. If we didn't get our hearts stomped on, shattered: if we didn't have to patch and repatch until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together and bound up by who knows what. If we could just float along, like snow. But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosions of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?”
“Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.”
“Sometimes I think my brain opened as far as it could go when I was about seventeen, and its doors have been just stuck there ever since. And now they're ossifying and collecting cobwebs, and things are spilling in, swirling around for a bit, and then flying out again. And someday they'll start to swing slowly shut, and I'll be left in the dark with nothing but a few rustling fragments of thoughts that get thinner and weaker every time I use them. Like tea leaves. And sometimes I think I can do anything.”
Source: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams”
Source: Wonder
“Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.”
“Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.”
“Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.”
“Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.”
Source: Breathing Black
“Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds!”
“Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as I do, and might be happy to tag along with me on this search for clarity, for precision. I love that aspect of writing. Nothing makes me happier than to hear a reader say: that’s just what I’ve always felt, but you said it clearly.”
“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”
“Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.”
Source: There is Confusion
“Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.”
Source: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
“Sometimes I think of Abraham
How one star he saw had been lit for me
He was a stranger in this land
And I am that, no less than he
And on this road to righteousness
Sometimes the climb can be so steep
I may falter in my steps
But never beyond your reach”
“Sometimes I think of all the things I am good at, I am the very best at breaking my own damn heart. ⠀”
“Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.”
“Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting.”
Source: Making Love with the Land: Essays
“Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.”
“Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.”
Source: Walt Disney: Conversations
“Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.”
“Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation.”
“Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.”
“Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.”
“Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.”
“Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.”
“Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.”
“Sometimes I think people need to prepare to be born at a certain time to be of age in keeping with coming events. It also seems we travel with a ring of protection both here and there.”
“Sometimes I think people only pretend to like eachother”
Source: Solitaire
“Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.”
Source: Made You Up