S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make only one plan; this will increase the possibility of success! On the edge of a precipice, if your second plan is a parachute on your back, your possibility of falling will increase! When you have nothing to trust, you will be safer, because you have no right to make any mistake!”
“Sometimes it is okay for the not-so-okay to act like they are okay.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“Sometimes it is okay to simply do nothing. Put down the to-do list, cancel your plans, and just sit there and relax.
You deserve to be present without worrying about, "what's next?". Save those thoughts for another time.”
“Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.”
“Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.”
“Sometimes, it is only in the hands of another that a memory can be fully encountered. All of a sudden it is not the front of the car you see but the street from the back side window. The memory expands past two dimensions. This is the beauty of collective memory.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.”
Source: Actors Anonymous
“Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian”
“Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!””
“Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a lot of people, burn out every once in a while. What I have learned from my own experience is that there are two reasons for it to happen. It is that I am either physically tired or mentally tired. If either of these are the case, the wisest decision is to blow off practice. Blowing off practice is healthy. I didn't understand that until I was so burnt out that I wanted to make scrap material out of my single and my oars.”
“Sometimes It is really important to explain how much love and care you have for someone. It doesn't mean that If you have lot and do not need to explain but it means that explanations make a relationship more strong.”
“Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.”
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.”
Source: Stranger Things Happen
“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Sometimes it is so desirable to go on a journey that it must be set off immediately without setting a destination!”
“Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”
“Sometimes it is the destinations out of reach that create the circumstances God uses to remind that we are never out of his reach.”
“Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.”
“Sometimes, it is the ‘normal’
that should be feared most. After all, throughout history, horrifying
acts of violence and depravity have always been committed by the
living.”
Source: India's Most Haunted: Tales of Terrifying Places
“Sometimes it is the other way around. A white person is set down in our midst, but the contrast is just as sharp for me. For instance, when I sit in the drafty basement that is The New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes. We enter chatting about any little nothing that we have in common and are seated by the jazz waiters. In the abrupt way that jazz orchestras have, this one plunges into a number. It loses no time in circumlocutions, but gets right down to business. It constricts the thorax and splits the heart with its tempo and narcotic harmonies. This orchestra grows rambunctious, rears on its hind legs and attacks the tonal veil with primitive fury, rending it, clawing it until it breaks through to the jungle beyond. I follow those heathen--follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head, I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter something--give pain, give death to what, I do not know. But the piece ends. The men of the orchestra wipe their lips and rest their fingers. I creep back slowly to the veneer we call civilization with the last tone and find the white friend sitting motionless in his seat, smoking calmly.
"Good music they have here," he remarks, drumming the table with his fingertips.
Music. The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him. He has only heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us. He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored.”
Source: How it Feels to be Colored Me
“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”
“Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.”
“Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.”
“Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.”
“Sometimes it is the very people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine.”
“Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.”
Source: The Open Door
“Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, to understand, to give of themselves to their children.”
Source: Dibs in Search of Self
“Sometimes it is when those most traumatic of experiences take place that we have the opportunity to be flooded by that which is called Grace. When the heart is broken, when you are deeply betrayed, when people speak falsely against you, try to find the inner strength not to crack under the injustice and maliciousness of others. Choose not to be filled with rage or despair. Then you are „letting go“ or detaching yourself from this most intimate kind of pain, and a door will open. As the great spiritual teacher Karlfried Graf Dürckheim said: „Open the door and let yourself be found.“ (p. 200)”
Source: Doorway to Spiritual Awakening: Becoming Partakers of the Divine
“Sometimes it is wonderful to be unsuccessful because through our failure, we enable people to try new paths! And thus, even in failure you may found happiness, because helping others is an important source of happiness!”
“Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.”
“Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.”
Source: Divergent
“Sometimes it isn’t just about the people doing the exciting part of things. Sometimes it’s about the people holding things together back home too.", FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fever
“Sometimes it isn’t until we get knocked down that we find which way is up. Sometimes it isn’t until the sky clouds over that we notice the light. And sometimes it isn’t until we lie in the gutter that we begin to see the stars.”
Source: Soul Fuel: Daily Devotions to Survive the Adventure of Life
“Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.”
“Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.”
“Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information.
Ten thousand reflections
hide the true gem.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
“Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.”
“Sometimes it just doesn’t seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.”
“Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.”
“Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.”
“Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.”
Source: Almost Heaven: A Novel
“Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?”
“Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.”
“Sometimes it lasts in love,
But sometimes it hurts instead.”
“Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.”
“Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.”
“Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.”
Source: This Is a Book
“Sometimes it looks like you're going nowhere or that you're headed in the wrong direction. I'm learning that the decision itself is rarely the point. The point is becoming more fully ourselves in the presence of God, connecting with Him and with each other, and living our lives as though we believe He is good and beautiful. The point is being honest about where you are and what you need and then looking around in your own community for people to walk with you and with whom you can walk. I spent years wishing people would support me only to later realize I was waiting around for something to come to me when I was perfectly capable of going out and getting it. I'm convinced God is less interested in where we end up then He is in who we are becoming. Whether we're employed or unemployed, encouraged or discouraged, filled with vision or fumbling in the fog. More than anything, our Father just wants to be with us. The most common way He shows His "withness" to us is in the actual, physical presence of other people.”
Source: The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions
“Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.”
Source: Salem Falls
“Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could not see each other, and then something I painted would bring us together again.”
Source: Mary Cassatt, modern woman