S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes it feels weird being an actor surrounded by all these real fighters and you gotta keep your confidence high and do your best to learn it as quickly as possible.”
“Sometimes it feels what I recovered you lost, sending your peaceful loss to me.”
“Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.”
Source: Horde
“Sometimes it felt as if they spent more nights on the floor than in their beds. Lying awake, staring at the ceiling, Michael would listen to the sounds of bullets ricocheting off the concrete outside. It was a mad life. But as the anarchy persisted from one month to the next, it became the only life he knew.”
Source: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
“Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.”
Source: Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties
“Sometimes it felt like I could disappear and no one would really care. It felt like I was a temporary fixture in someone's life until they moved on. But with LJ I felt like I mattered-always.”
Source: The Fourth Time Charm
“Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.”
“Sometimes it felt like the continuation of our species was an ongoing experiment being performed on the backs of women. Or on our wombs.”
Source: Delicate Condition
“Sometimes it gets a little hectic on trips because we're skating all day long, and all you want to do is eat dinner and go to sleep. So sometimes it gets a little long for my liking, but the second I get home, it's straight to the shower to fix it all up, and we're good to go.”
“Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.”
“Sometimes it had taken her hours or days to recover from a particularly emotional book, but there'd always been another to take her mind off the anguish.”
Source: My Lady Jane
“Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.”
“Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have to prove the assessment with very strong moves and if you don't find all of these strong moves you may lose very quickly. For a computer this is not a problem, but for humans it is not so easy.”
“Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained—something bound to happen. Whether by this there is connoted something in the nature of a combination of presentiments, or a great effort of will, or a self-annulment of one's true expectations, and so on, I do not know;”
Source: The Gambler
“Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.”
“Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.”
“Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.”
“Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.”
“Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.”
Source: Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God
“Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.”
Source: Goosebumps: Haunted Mask II
“sometimes
it hurts in a way that
it feels like you hurt for everyone
who has ever hurt this way…
i think it’s called soul ache.”
“Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.”
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
“Sometimes it hurts to love someone. I wouldn't change it, though. I wouldn't change a single thing. I love you.”
Source: The Traitor Prince
“Sometimes it indeed seemed as if there were only ten women in Rome. And in Cicero's view, Mark Antony had slept with every one of them.”
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.”
Source: Essayes
“Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.”
“Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible”
“Sometimes it is as if a target shows itself to you from afar; as if it has chosen you, and all you have to do is walk towards it, just like a thirsty person walking excitedly towards a fountain!”
“Sometimes it is because we are chosen, that we are rejected.”
“Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.”
Source: River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
“Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.”
“Sometimes it is best to keep quiet in times of negative struggles.”
“Sometimes it is better not to know a bad thing if there is nothing you can do about it... but it is cowardly nonetheless.”
Source: Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore
“Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.”
“Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.”
“Sometimes it is better to be apologetic through actions than with words, because a few words cannot undo everything.”
“Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.”
“Sometimes it is better to combine different formulations of supplements that claim to do the same thing.”
Source: Summit Brain
“Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron”
“Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
Source: Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)
“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”
“Sometimes it is better to refrain from engaging in conversation because making no impression is better than making a bad impression.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Sometimes it is better to stay out of confusing situations, because your actions and words can be misrepresented, even with the best intentions in the world.”
Source: MY LIFE IN QUOTES
“Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.”
“Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.”
“Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer.”
“Sometimes, it is easier for people to believe lies then deal with the uncomfortableness of their own fear of action. These type of people feel uncomfortable unless everyone is the same or God presents them with what is easy and obvious. It is a life long coping mechanism for the greatest fear of all--regret.”
“Sometimes it is easier to be angry than to express your own suffering.”
Source: Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other
“Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear”