S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes in love it just gets to the point where I have to give up. I have to give up trying and I have to give up believing because I know things won't change. To me, giving up isn't being weak. Giving up is being strong enough to let go.”
“Sometimes in making a wrong turn; We are led to our purpose driven”
“Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.”
“Sometimes in my life I feel like a bit of a sorceress who can't totally control all their power. I'm a Libra, so... Libra women are pretty magical.”
“Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.”
Source: Hate List
“Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.”
“Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.”
“Sometimes, in order to achieve our goals, we have to change ourselves. Sometimes we have to change ourselves just to survive. We might worry that we’re becoming an entirely different person. But this is often what’s required to move on to the place we want to be.
If the goal is passion, the kind of passion that leads to love, you can pretty much guarantee that the journey is going to change you. But the one thing that never changes is the heart. And since the heart wants what the damn heart wants, be prepared to probably get the shit kicked out of you for a while to make it happen.
But if you can hold tight and white-knuckle the turbulence, it’s usually a worthwhile trip.
Because the destination is fucking fabulous.”
Source: Victim of Love
“Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past.”
“Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.”
“Sometimes, in order to find happiness, one must allow some old bridges to collapse, in order to build better ones.”
“Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry
Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake
Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake
Laughter always follow tears
Blessed are those who understand
Life blossoms wherever water flows
Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown”
“Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.”
“Sometimes in order to move the mind forward we must shift its gears out of reverse.”
“Sometimes, in order to solve a lingering problem, perseverance seems to be the only option”
“Sometimes in our attempt to give children what we did not have, we forget to give our children what we did have.”
“Sometimes in our job you feel you just can't win. If you take too long you're no good, if you're too quick the visit wasn't necessary.”
Source: All Things Bright and Beautiful
“Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.”
“Sometimes in our quest to be seen as credible and professional and sophisticated, we forget the value of our humanity.”
Source: Good Awkward: How to Embrace the Embarrassing and Celebrate the Cringe to Become The Bravest You
“Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.”
“Sometimes in our story we are the victim, sometimes the martyr and sometimes the villain.”
Source: In the Cave of my Heart: Poems
“Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps.”
“Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.”
“Sometimes in public you don't feel like being "on." But it's OK. It beats working anyday.”
“Sometimes, in rare occasions, when I see a man respects a woman, treats her like another valuable human being, uses a proper language when talking to her and does not consider her only as a sex-toy. I feel proud of being a man. I feel grateful of belonging to a gender category as he is.
However, the feeling is soon gone after seeing how men in general talk about women, disrespect them and insult them any way they can.”
“Sometimes in real life, people can be a bit too unaccepting.”
“Sometimes in relationships, chasing more, expecting more.. ruins it..We keep asking for more attention, more effort, more love until the other person has nothing left to give. And by the time we realize it, the peace we once had is already gone. You know love isn’t always about getting more, sometimes it’s about knowing when to stop asking. Because “enough” is never less, we just don't see its worth until it slips away.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Sometimes in some places they would actually stop the train - keep the train from stopping at a particular station because they saw that there were so many black people there waiting to board and so therefore those people wouldn't get to leave.”
“Sometimes in storm weather the shore had fluttered with disabled swallows. They crouched lower for his approach, without strength to escape. In his hands they pulsed with that same pulse. He had taken a bird and warmed it between his hands or inside his jacket, brought the life back until it was able to fly. Sometimes, released from his hands, they circled once around him before flying away; in gratitude, or so the child had believed--and the belief had survived all the man's science.”
Source: Sacred Hunger
“Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package."”
Source: The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
“Sometimes in survival, in life, and in faith, an ember is all we need.”
Source: Soul Fuel: Daily Devotions to Survive the Adventure of Life
“Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.”
“Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.”
Source: Swann's Way
“Sometimes, in the ancient writing samples found in the Indian subcontinent, we find that a mixture of Harappan and Brahmi features has been used. This definitely points towards a continuous evolutionary process that transformed the Harappan script into the later day Brahmi. This also explains why many of the Harappan signs seem to have been simply carried forward (even in actual form) in the Brahmi script.”
Source: Call Of The Lost Ages - A Study Of The Indus Valley Script
“Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.”
“Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.”
Source: Jesus, the One and Only
“Sometimes in the corner of my eye, I saw a girl running through the loft. A see-through girl, a silhouette. She looked the way the world looks without my glasses. Vaguely hued, indistinct. She looked the way a body looks underwater, lost in the blur of bubble and wave.”
Source: Sonora
“Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.”
“Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us classical music.”
“Sometimes in the heat of the battle you just got to calm down and use what you do in practice to avoid the penalties.”
“Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.”
“Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer”
Source: The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose
“Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.”
“Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."”
“Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I’ll wake up with sweat drenching my chest and think it’s the blood and muck I was covered in that night.”
Source: November Snow
“Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.”
Source: So Much Closer
“Sometimes, in the midst of betrayal, shock, disappointment, uncertainty, tears, sleepless nights, and heartache, you’re actually being guided toward your purpose, your power, and your destiny. Be encouraged today and remember: God’s got you! Don’t grow bitter. Don’t lose hope. Hold on to your faith, and trust His process.”
“Sometimes in the midst of our darkest moments it’s easy to forget that it’s up to us to turn on the light, but that’s what I did. I switched on the light, the light of cognizance.”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
“Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.”