S Quotes
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“Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.”
Source: The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate
“Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men”
“Sometimes it seems all I have are questions, that I will ask the same ones all my life. I'm not sure if I even want any answers, don't think I'd have a use for them, but I do know I'd give anything to be another person—anyone else—for even just a day, an hour. There's something about that distance I'd do anything to cross.”
Source: The Answers
“Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.”
“Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.”
“Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.”
“Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.”
“Sometimes it seems difficult when life hurts you. "There is a darkness where there seems to be no hope, just the feeling of being empty.” "Just know there is so much more to life ."Just trust yourself, and you will know how to live.”
“Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.”
“Sometimes it seems like America is the Christian and Israel is the little Jew they love in this fetishistic way. Like, you're my little sister and I'll kick anyone's ass that messes with you. But when we're alone and no one's looking I'll harass you.”
“Sometimes it seems like he just wants to punish someone, anyone, for a long list of grievances that he has never made clear, which you can never ask about because he keeps his emotions so guarded that any question would be interpreted as assault. I wonder if dragging us to this village and the nearby town wear he spent his childhood is a way of sinking us all into his own personal hell so that we can see how this strange combination of poverty and opportunity, these broken and muddy roads, these crumbling houses, these overburdened men and women walking slowly in these streets singing praise songs to keep themselves going, created the strange combination of love and anger and pride and fear that is my father. He always sat in the passenger seat while we drove around the village so he could fully view what he sometimes called a world of wasted opportunity. With OJ or my mother in the car, he pointed out all the things he would make right if only he had the power. With me now, he says nothing. Occasionally he turns to look at me with the same expression that occupies his face when he has to solve a problem at the office. I sink down in my seat and wish that my mother had come.”
Source: Speak No Evil
“Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.”
“Sometimes it seems like most people are being pulled into a negative energy, but then you meet strong individuals or strong leaders and they are free from it.”
“Sometimes it seems like this is the choice - either kick ass or kiss ass.”
“Sometimes it seems 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.”
“Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth - that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me.”
“Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.”
“Sometimes, it seems no matter what moves you make to better your life, some of the ugliness of your past tries to follow you, but thankfully, so does God’s grace.”
Source: Unstoppable Grace: A Memoir
“Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.”
Source: Fresh Air: Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God
“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
“Sometimes it seems that giving up is really not about surrender at all. Rather, it’s about the person trying to convince themselves that they were actually fighting in the first place.”
“Sometimes it seems that she can chart her life by what she worries about at three am.”
Source: One Day
“Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.”
“Sometimes it seems that the louder someone claims sainthood,
the bigger the horns they are hiding.”
“Sometimes it seems that those with the greatest disregard for our laws are the same people in charge of creating or enforcing them.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.”
Source: Forever Odd
“Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.”
“Sometimes it seems that we choose to see the ‘parts’ of our lives as the ‘whole’ of our lives. Parts are far less frightening, for if we were sufficiently daring to piece them together with all the other assorted parts of our life, the ‘whole’ of them might become bigger than the ‘whole’ of us.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.”
“Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.”
“Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.”
“Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.”
“Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.”
Source: All He Ever Wanted: A Novel
“Sometimes it seems to me that everything I have is chronic. My whole life is a chronic condition.”
Source: Why
“Sometimes it seems to me that God 's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.”
“Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.”
Source: Unpainted pictures: Emil Nolde, 1867-1956
“Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.”
Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS
“Sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him; for if not, why should he want all the place? Why should he run about here and there making a great noise about himself, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?”
Source: Lord Jim
“Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.”
Source: Ascend
“Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.”
“Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.”
Source: The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection
“Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of their territories in an atlas. It's a stupid thought, but I can't shake it.”
Source: On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
“Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you’re in a bag and you can’t get out and somebody’s always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.”
“Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.”
Source: Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy
“Sometimes it seems, we are so diminished by our own shortcomings we are unable to celebrate the success of others.”
Source: Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings
“Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.”
Source: I'd Kill for a Cookie: A Simple Six-Week Plan to Conquer Stress Eating
“Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.”
“Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the lyric and rhythm, kind of. Sometimes it's a track I fall I love with... but writing my own songs, I rarely write on tracks.”
“Sometimes it take courage to leave.”
Source: The Staircase
“Sometimes it takes a big dream to wake up a small town.”
Source: Hattie Big Sky