S Quotes
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“Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff. It's the only explanation for eBay. We love to collect stuff, and at least if we're collecting stuff in cyberspace we're not deforesting the Sierra Nevada.”
“Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.”
“Sometimes I think, Why invent projects? What is the point? How will I ever accomplish what I set out to do, what I imagine? Then I think of the past, even before I was born, the great small feats people accomplished.
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Those people had to work to accomplish those things, they thought of details, they followed through. Even if I come off as naive and zealous, even if I get on everyone's nerves, I have to follow these examples. Even if I fail, I have to try and try and try. It may be exhausting, but that is beside the point. The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and sees them through.”
Source: Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
“Sometimes I think with half the world on fire- with so much dying and so much pain- it's a special kind of sin to sing and feel good. But then I think, well, even before Dragonscale, most human lives were unfair, brutal, full of loss and grief and confusion. Most human lives were and are too short. Most people have lived out their days hungry and barefoot, on the run from this war and that famine, a plague here and a flood there. But people have to sing anyway. Even a baby that hasn't been fed in days will stop crying and look around when they hear someone singing in joy. You sing and it's like giving a thirsty person water. It's a kindness. It makes you shine. The proof that you matter is in your song and in the way you light up for one another.”
Source: The Fireman
“Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I'd be turned into a mist and I would rematerialize in the room of the person I'm talking to. Is that too odd for you?”
“Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.”
“Sometimes I think you believe in me more than I do," said the boy
"You'll catch up," said the horse.”
Source: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
“Sometimes I think you can lose the joy in what you do. It becomes a sense of 'I've got to beat him, I've got to beat him,' and you lose your own sense of joy.”
“Sometimes I think you'd cross the street to step in dogshit.”
Source: The Stand
“Sometimes I think you don't really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.”
Source: Crazy
“Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning actually, the first person I had to convince was myself really because there's a self-censorship. When everybody says 'we don't do silent movies anymore,' you agree with everybody, and you say 'yeah, you're right.' It was a fantasy.”
“Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.”
“Sometimes I think you just have to trust that the things you're doing make sense, instead of sitting down and analyzing this and that and, "Well, I read Paul-Michel Foucault saying..." The world and the universe have a way of resolving themselves eloquently, I think, if you're doing the right things.”
“Sometimes I think you keep me around
just to make your shadow
l o n g e r.”
Source: Not Ghosts, But Spirits Volume IV
“Sometimes I think you like me better as a wolf." "Sometimes I do. It probably has something to do with the way you CAN'T TALK.”
Source: Eclipse
“Sometimes I think you're a very old and wise person disguised as you, I said.
Thanks, she said.
And sometimes, I said, I think you're one of the youngest greenest people I'll ever know.
I am all my me's, she said. I am complete.”
Source: Gliff
“Sometimes I think you're still a prisoner. You're not free of this place in your head, Nathan. And you're definitely not free of those people. They haunt you.”
Source: Half Lost
“Sometimes I think you'll be fine by yourself Cause a dream is a wish you make all alone; It's easy to feel like you don't need help, But it's harder to walk on your own.”
“Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.”
“Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.”
“Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.”
“Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?”
“Sometimes I think, I need to think before I speak. And then other times I think, I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.”
“Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.”
“Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .”
“Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. I lived. It wasn't easy. And yet. I found out how little is unbearable.”
Source: The History of Love
“Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It wasn't easy. I found out how little is unbearable.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.”
“Sometimes, "I told him, as the darkness swirled closer and closer, "you just have to say you're sorry."
It's more than that, and I think by then I knew it. It's more than saying sorry.
It's meaning it. It's letting the apology change things. But an apology is where it has to begin.”
Source: MirrorMask
“Sometimes I took online quizzes to find out if I was a sociopath. Society thinks there are more male sociopaths than female, but that is a dirty, dirty lie perpetuated by the media. There are more unfeeling girls out there than they would like to admit.
Maybe I wasn’t crazy. But if I wasn’t, then everyone else was.”
Source: Sinner
“Sometimes I touch my skin and wonder if the past is all there ever was.”
Source: A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems
“Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your fingers.”
“Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can't sleep, don't want to sleep, get up, go to the gym, work. This is early for me, being here at half ten in the morning, this is really early, and I'm only here because I screwed up yesterday and kept you hanging around. Other times I'll call up my wrestling coach, or my jiu jitsu coach, or my deep-tissue guy, and want to really focus on one part of what I do. I train in all these different disciplines.”
“Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Sometimes I trick myself when writing in my notebook; sometimes I end up working on the novel after all, in those pages. And that is the best reason to return to it, that it brings me closer to something I haven't otherwise been able to get to, or that can't get to me. I want to go further into my writing, into my thinking. 'And do I?”
Source: A Horse at Night: On Writing
“Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
And so I put this on my life
Nobody or nothing will ever come between us
And I promise I'll give my life”
“Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.”
“Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.”
“Sometimes, I try in the exercise of the rainbow and bring a little color in our world.”
“Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing.”
“Sometimes I try to do too much.”
“Sometimes I try to erase myself. And then, if I've done a good job, I'm erased. I'm nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl. And I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I'm not outside my world anymore, and I'm not really inside it either. The thing is, there's no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain.”
Source: Stargirl
“Sometimes I try to figure out why I always push things to talk about the really dark stuff in interviews, and I just think it's healing - for the listener, and for the guest.”
“Sometimes I try to imagine what happens to characters in books - after the books finish, I mean.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!”
“Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.”
“Sometimes I try to pray, late at night when I am unable to sleep, my bed hot from my body and me tossing and turning. It's hard not to pray in a rehearsed way, and I can feel myself perform a routine even in my most desperate moments: "Oh Lord, please help me do X or feel Y." So I try to sink back into myself, to a self that is unaware of church and religion, to a more primal self. I imagine God as the night sky, not a man or even a person, and then I try just to be me, to be real, to experience my humanity with God as a witness.”
“Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on going? Why would you take something bad out of your mouth and hand it to another, saying, Here, eat this?”
“Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.”