S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes it's not always straightforward, but it's not always confusing either. You just have to respect a person's decisions without disrespecting them.”
“Sometimes it's not bad to believe what your haters say about you. Ironically they can see talent in you that you haven't even recognized. Just saying.”
“Sometimes it's not just your favorite song. It's your untold story.”
“Sometimes it's not love people seek. They just have a want to fulfill because they are hungry!”
“Sometimes it’s not our initial mistake that holds us back, but our failure to recognise that it’s never too late to bounce back from it wiser.”
“Sometimes it’s not that you don’t want help. It’s that you can’t bear to be offered help that just keeps turning out not to be enough after all.”
“Sometimes it's not that you "fell out of love" it's that you finally came to the realization that you were never truly "in love" to begin with.”
“Sometimes it’s not the big things that one needs; a mere smile may well give a measly soldier potency to brawl vigilantly again.”
“Sometimes, it’s not the family we’re born into, it’s the family that finds us, the ones who save and care for us.”
Source: Westland
“Sometimes, it's not the path that needs changing but the lane.”
Source: Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected
“Sometimes it's not what you do differently it's what you do consistently.
I approached solving my life’s problems from many different angles. I used to try to be perfect, not in the literal sense, but coasting right below in that realistic level of high performance. That was my desire. It did not happen though, yet that desire did not die. Ironically, as I fell into deeper adversity, it grew. As I dug for China, I knew the comeback would make the suffering worth it. It’s like what Viktor E. Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” I felt the meaning for my self imposed suffering was the honorable character I would later possess; it had to be.”
Source: Consistent, Not Different: Why We Stray from the Path and Reasons to Return
“Sometimes it's ok not to depend on others. Instead, do it yourself, you know it'll be done right.”
“Sometimes, it's okay to let your guard off and be vulnerable, it's fine to let your scars bleed because you're human.”
“Sometimes, it's okay to stumble and fall. It's all part of the journey. Because in those moments, we're not just falling; we're learning, growing, and becoming better versions of ourselves. So, let’s fall if we must. Because deep down, you know that the person you’re becoming will be there to catch you, guiding you through every step of the way. It's a reminder that even in our moments of vulnerability, we're still moving forward, evolving, and becoming stronger with each passing day.”
“Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our authentic selves. In such sacred moments, the world seems to be in step. This is why the idea of finding love across the dance floor endure — symbolizing that, when we know the true rhythm of our heart, we know the other.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“Sometimes it's only through acceptance from which we find answers.”
Source: Bodega Botanica Tales: Jose
“Sometimes, it's our broken heart that builds up indestructible walls to avert us falling in love again.”
“Sometimes it’s our own fear and insecurity that keeps us stuck in an unhealthy relationship… Scared to walk away, let go, and move on… Fear blinds us from seeing our true potential… Insecurity keeps us thinking small for ourselves. We say things like, “The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know”… Never even imagining ourselves outside of hell.”
“Sometimes it's our stinkin' thinkin' that gets us in trouble. You know---one stinkin' thought leads to another, which leads to another, which leads to another. Eventually the smell will kill you!”
Source: Laughing in the Dark: A Comedian's Journey through Depression
“Sometimes it's possible, just barely possible, to imagine a version of this world different from the existing one, a world in which there is true justice, heroic honesty, a clear perception possessed by each individual about how to treat all the others. Sometimes I swear I could see it, glittering in the pavement, glowing between the words in a stranger's sentence, a green, impossible vision--the world as it was meant to be, like a mist around the world as it is.”
Source: Underground Airlines
“Sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing.”
“Sometimes it's so awful I check to make sure my eyes and ears aren't bleeding. They never do. Her words never exist beyond the cage of my head.”
Source: War Storm
“Sometimes it's the cold and broken shack that lets the most love seep through the cracks.”
“Sometimes it's the distance between us
that keeps us close.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“Sometimes it's the end that matters and the means are only an add on”
Source: Laiza- Sometimes the end is only a Beginning
“Sometimes it's the environment that's more important. If you're in an ill-suited environment, what you enjoy can sometimes become something you want to give up.”
“Sometimes it's the hands that take life too seriously that tickle us to no end.”
“Sometimes it’s the ones tempered by fire who are strongest when you really need them.”
Source: Sworn
“Sometimes, it’s the people who have been hurt the most who refuse to be hardened in this world, because they would never want to make another person feel the same way they have felt. If that isn’t something to be in awe of, I don’t know what is.”
Source: The Strength In Our Scars
“Sometimes it's the quiet places we go to feel good.”
“Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.”
Source: The Witch of Little Italy
“Sometimes, it's the smallest things that can change everything when you least expect it.”
Source: In the Lives of Puppets
“Sometimes it's the smallest waves that knock you off your feet. Tsunamis—everybody know's they're powerful. Tidal waves—big and impressive. But those small waves? They hold a lot of power. They prove what the ocean is capable of, even when no one is paying attention (...) I always keep an eye on you, Percy, mostly from a distance, it's true. I've watched you save the world multiple times, conquering enemies that would scare most immortals. But it wasn't till today that I realized how much of a hero you truly are (...) You risked your life for a cupbearer you barely know. Not for a letter. Not because the fate of the world was at state. But because that's just who you are. Today, you created a small wave, and you showed what the ocean is capable of.”
Source: The Chalice of the Gods
“Sometimes it’s the suffering we don’t ask for that means the most.”
Source: A Sea Like Glass
“Sometimes it’s the thing that’s right in front of you that you keep looking over.”
“Sometimes it's the thought of someone leaving you which is more painful than the pain you feel when someone leaves you.”
“Sometimes it's torturous to think of things we can't possibly have.”
Source: Doomsday Diaries
“Sometimes it’s typical to think you found what you desire, but then the opposition can happen, causing reevaluation on your options. Conversely, when you find beauty in something that holds treasures, you may have found beauty to your heart’s desire that harvest love or pain through it. The harvest is inevitable, but your senses redirect for proper discernment and perception.”
Source: Awakening Kings and Princes Volume I
“Sometimes, It's worth looking deeper into what one see. It may be the only way of getting the WHOLE PICTURE.”
“Sometimes it's your fragrance that comes to me, out of the blue, on a crowded road in a Sunday afternoon.
But more often, it's memories of us that cross my mind almost every lone evening.
All I want is to lessen the pain I feel every night.
But every morning I wake up is another day, hopeless and miserable, with nothing but a deafening silence, a wave of tears, memories and your absence.”
“Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.”
“Sometimes it seemed he belonged more to the realm of dreams than to the world of the living.”
Source: The Atlas Paradox
“Sometimes it seemed like her face was all the heart he had left.”
Source: Cast Long Shadows
“Sometimes, it seemed like the authors were treating language like it was its own creature. A creature that fed, grew, died, and was reborn again. Language was not a tool to them, more like an occasionally useful parasite.”
Source: Toward Eternity
“Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.”
Source: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
“Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying speed to a far corner of the night. In the dark hours before sunrise, constellations came apart and reformed and fell in burning streaks.”
Source: The Fireman
“Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home.”
Source: Like Life
“Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.”
“Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.”
Source: The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children