S Quotes
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“Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.”
“Sometimes I think that when you live together for a very long time, and have children together, life is a bit like climbing trees. Up and down, up and down, you try to cope with everything, be good, you climb and climb and climb, and you hardly ever see each other along the way. You don't notice that when you're young, but everything changes when you have children, and sometimes it feels like you hardly ever see the person you mar-ried anymore. You're parents and teammates, first and foremost, well, and being married slips down the list of priorities. But you you keep climbing trees, and see each other along the way. I always thought that was just the way it is, life, the way it has to be. We just had to get through everything, I thought. And I kept telling myself that the important thing was that we kept climbing the same tree. Because then I thought that sooner or later. and this sounds so pretentious... but I thought that sooner or later we'd end up on the same branch. And then we could sit there holding hands and look-ing at the view. That's what I thought we'd be doing when we got old. But time goes quicker than you think.”
Source: Anxious People
“Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...
Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?
Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.
Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.
Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.
Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.”
Source: Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen
“Sometimes I think the books that affect us most are fantasy books. I don't mean books in the fantasy genre; I don't even mean the books we fantasize about writing but don't write. What I'm thinking of here are the books we know about — from their titles, from reading reviews, or hearing people talk about them — but haven't, over a period of time, actually read. Books that can therefore have a presence, or exert a pressure in our lives and thinking, that may have little to do with what's actually inside them.”
“Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing”
“Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.”
“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”
Source: How It Ended
“Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993
“Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to make a living, I don't know whether I'd have the plays produced.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.”
Source: A Fraction of the Whole
“Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“Sometimes I think the main purpose of professional sports is to give guys something to talk about that does not involve them personally.”
Source: Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
“Sometimes I think the Most High believes I can shoulder the weight of 1000 stars.”
“Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m creating my own life. I distrust any memories I do have. They may be fictions, too.”
“Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.”
Source: My Life on the Road
“Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.”
Source: Life After God
“Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.”
“Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!”
“Sometimes I think the sky understands how I feel. What else could rain mean.”
“Sometimes I think the War is harder on parents than on soldiers," said Pritchard.
Gaunt could tell he was lying, but Gaunt would have lied too, if he had thought of it. Instead, all he could think of was No Man's Land at night, when the star shells lit it up, and it seemed to contain the world. The steak and champagne disgusted him. The fine china and silverware were sticky with something intangible, something fouler than the mud of the trenches. Next to him, Pritchard dropped his fork with a clatter. Gaunt still knew the names of all the men in his company. Where would they see tonight? How many were left alive ?”
Source: In Memoriam
“Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.”
Source: The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy : Interviews
“Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.”
“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”
“Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.”
Source: Pipers and a dancer
“Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“Sometimes I think there’s someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there’s an angel—or, more likely, a demon—assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. Well, today it got an A plus.”
“Sometimes I think they're angels. And sometimes I think they're Martiaans. And sometimes I think they are some kind of natural phenomenon, but ...'
'But what?'
'Mostly I think they're beautiful.”
Source: Kaleidoscope
“Sometimes I think things happen for a reason... And I think if we're meant to run into each other again, fate will make it happen.”
Source: The Start of Us
“Sometimes I think this whole movement
is led by a bunch of idiots.”
Source: Fracture Me
“Sometimes I think to myself, "I wonder if Meryl Streep is ever like, 'Oh gosh, everyone thinks I'm so perfect! I wish that someone would give me a note.'"”
“Sometimes I think to myself, what should James Franco say next? And then it comes to me. Boobs.”
“Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it”
“Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.”
“Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently.”
“Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.”
“Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.”
Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader
“Sometimes I think we aren’t meant to understand why terrible things happen… Only to trust that God’s mercy extends beyond what we can see… Perhaps mercy doesn’t always prevent suffering but walks alongside us through it.”
Source: Beneath the Oregon Pines
“Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.”
Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation
“Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.”
“Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.”
“Sometimes I think we're all gentlemen of the road. It's just that most of us haven't got the courage to take that first step.”
“Sometimes I think we take on this false responsibility of feeling like we have to be consistently strong. We can even begin to believe that weaknesses are a lack of faith, but the truth is, God's power is made perfect in our weaknesses!”
“sometimes I think we will
always come back to each other.
not by chance,
but by choice.
there is no magnetic pull,
no right time
or right place.
the stars are not aligned for us.
so we reach our hands
up to the night sky
and rearrange the ourselves.”
Source: Light Filters in: Poems
“Sometimes I think we would lose ourselves altogether if it were not for our stubborn, irrepressible symptoms, calling us, requiring us, to recollect ourselves, to reorient ourselves to life.”
“Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.”
“Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we're okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know.”
“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.”
“Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life.”