S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.”
“Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not.”
“Sometimes if you've got a story that's interesting enough, you don't need to pour sugar on ice cream. The ice cream is great.”
“Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.”
“Sometimes ignorance is a bliss. If you reach enlightenment (in one way or another), you may see the reality of human nature. You may like it, or you may reject it. But certainly you won't regret it. Rise again!”
“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”
“Sometimes imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.”
Source: Confessions of an Imaginary Friend
“Sometimes imagination is more important than the truth. Not because it covers the truth, but because it expands it and makes its potential bigger.”
Source: Memory of Water
“Sometimes imagination outsmarts intelligence and enthusiasm outshines experience.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason,
but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Sometimes in a crowded mall I realise that everyone has a whole life of their own and it's like suddenly seeing infinity ignoring itself.”
“Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.”
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
“Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.”
“Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.”
“Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.”
“Sometimes, in a relationship, we fail to put two and two together because we want so much to keep one and one together.”
“Sometimes in a relationship, we can be so caught up in our feelings for the other person that we squeeze God into the background. It becomes a confusing, emotional mess and we wonder why God isn't giving us more direction, when all the while He is there waiting to be allowed back into first place in our hearts. Only when He is truly in first place are we ready for a God-written love story.”
“Sometimes in a restaurant you'll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something... a little fan is always a little bit nice.”
“Sometimes, in a summer morning,
having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise
till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs,
in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sing around or
flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at
my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant
highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons
like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the
hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but
so much over and above my usual allowance. I realized what the Orientals
mean by contemplation and the forsaking of works. For the most part, I
minded not how the hours went. The day advanced as if to light some
work of mine; it was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing
memorable is accomplished.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Sometimes, in a thunderstorm, a lance of white fire would spear down from heaven and split the stone heart of an ancient tree, a crack so deep it seemed to come from the core of the earth. You could feel the skin of the world tense against it.
Robin's kiss felt like that.”
Source: All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
“Sometimes in an incarnation you get a feeling of frustration. It is not working out the way you want. If you pull your power together and meditate, no matter what happens to you physically, you will have gained from this life.”
“Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to his colleagues, who then see it with increasing clarity. Perhaps a myriad of unknown senses are only awaiting our consciousness.”
“Sometimes in bed he held me as if he was a selfish little boy saying. 'Mine, mine, mine,' to the world. Sometimes he took care of me because he took care of things that belonged to him.”
Source: Problems
“Sometimes in business, you get a whack on the side of the head, sometimes a gentle nudge out of your comfort zone. Either can be a blessing in disguise.”
Source: Take That Leap: Risking It All For What REALLY Matters
“Sometimes, in caring for the lost and lonely, we find a new world. In the process of tending, we withdraw ourselves from the world of gloss and step into another world of God, empathy, and light. It then unfolds as a journey of becoming.”
“sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.”
“Sometimes in common relationships,i ts hard to break the Ice,so just look hot and you'll melt it”
“Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and then write it down.”
Source: Writing Poetry To Save Your Life: How To Find The Courage To Tell Your Stories
“Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.”
“Sometimes, in fact - and I’ve heard others say the sane thing - I have to read a story about developments in Italy in the foreign press to get a good, quick overall view of what is going on. And this is particularly true if you’ve been away and missed the first few days of coverage; Italian news stories rarely give you any background.”
Source: My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City
“Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.”
“Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.”
“Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.”
“Sometimes in football you have to score goals.”
“Sometimes in heartache we die and become numb before we are dead. I say bring the joy and pain, for I want to live again.”
Source: Distilled Thoughts
“Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“Sometimes in Life, 2+2 does not equal 4! Things just refuse to add up at times. Talent + Integrity + Hard Work do not immediately deliver worldly success/financial rewards/recognition/fair play!! And so, that's how we learn that we are all a product of the time we go through.”
“Sometimes in life, a strange thing happens: we get the chance to reinvent ourselves. Our new self has the ability to draw on the strengths and experiences of the old self, but without the constraints and limiting beliefs that held us back.
When this opportunity arrives, we have a choice to make. We can use it as a springboard to greater things. Dreams become goals, and goals become a series of checkpoints along the way. As we achieve the goals and approach the dreams, new dreams appear on the horizon.
Or, of course, we can let the opportunity pass us by. That's why it's a choice: take it or leave it. It doesn't force itself in.”
Source: The Money Tree: A Story about Finding the Fortune in Your Own Backyard
“Sometimes in life, a sudden situation, a moment in time, alters your whole life, forever changes the road ahead.”
Source: Baghdad: The Final Gathering
“Sometimes in life, accidents do happen; sometimes in life, certain incidents do occur. Certain accidents can be an incident and certain incident can be an accident. In all things, our ability to get a good understanding of what to regard as a true or mere incident, or an accident will truly help us to know how to handle situations in life in the best way, and with an utmost understanding for growth and satisfaction.”
“Sometimes in life, all we’ve got to do is to face our fears and challenges. Because a disregard to them won’t mount us up to anywhere. And this will consequently and fortunately, unleash our innermost wrapped capacities, setting paths for greatness.”
“Sometimes in life, all you need to know is when to quit.”
Source: That’ll Be Our Song
“Sometimes in life, and commonly in literature, desire undermines our resolve, drives us to obsession, illness, madness, or even death; or splits us into self-division, or contradictory moral evaluation, or wrecks us with the ambivalence of love and hate fused in the same desire.”
Source: Desire: A Memoir
“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.”
“sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency”
Source: The Power of One
“Sometimes in life if you wanna do something good, you gotta do something bad.”
“Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop”
Source: A Devil's Chaplain
“Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!”
“Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.”
“Sometimes in life our master will teach us and then test us like this. He will send the same painful circumstances to us over and over again until we no longer want what isn’t good for us; until he is sure that we have learned what we need to know so that he can move us on to new kinds of lessons and experience.”
Source: JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master