S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes it takes many attempt to succeed but it takes a second to lose them all.
Always plan well.”
“Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.”
“Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only eyewitnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees.”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)”
“Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.”
“Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.”
“Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.”
“Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.”
Source: The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff
“Sometimes it takes the better part of a lifetime to find out what your passion is, but in my observation, if you do, it might be the best part of your life.”
Source: Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life
“Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.”
“Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.”
“Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.”
“Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.”
Source: Out of Control
“Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.”
“Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.”
“Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high.
In a world filled with beauty I don't want to blink twice; soak up every moment because you can't stop time.”
“Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.”
Source: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
“Sometimes, it was difficult to tell Nynaeve leading from Nynaeve bullying.”
Source: The Path of Daggers
“Sometimes it was exhilaratingly easy to be happy again. Other times they found that they did have to “try".”
Source: What Alice Forgot
“Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn't feel like the universe was conspiring to keep me in a bubble.”
Source: I'll Meet You There
“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”
Source: The Midwife's Confession
“Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.”
Source: Life After Life
“Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we Americans, with all of our loud oversharing and need for random hugs and free admissions to people we've just met of deep, traumatic childhood wounds looks just as alien to them.”
Source: The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
“Sometimes it was lonely, living in silence.”
Source: Annie's Song
“Sometimes it was so easy to forget that I was kissing a vampire.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things.”
“Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.”
“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”
“Sometimes it wasn't even when we were knocking on doors, it would be, the phone would ring and somebody would say, "God told me to do this," and it would be exactly the perfect timing to help us with the next step of the filmmaking.”
“Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?”
“Sometimes it will take a long time to reach your destination, but you have to keep trying”
“Sometimes, it won't hurt to help others who are also on their way to success. When you create a network of kindness, you will achieve more from that.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Sometimes it works out but sometimes it don't
Maybe we'll fix this or maybe we won't.”
“Sometimes it works out well, and certain household responsibilities fall naturally to those who like doing them. For example, my wife likes to pack suitcases, I like to unpack them. My wife likes to buy groceries, I like to put them away. I do. I like the handling and discovering, and the location assignments. Cans - over there. Fruit - over there. Bananas - not so fast. You go over here. When you learn not to go bad so quickly, then you can stay with the rest of your friends.”
“Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.”
“Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.”
“Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.”
“Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake”
Source: Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?”
“Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them.”
“Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.”
“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”
“Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun to almost desecrate an instrument that for 500 years has been associated with God.”
“Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.”
Source: The Boyfriend Quartet: 15 Boys, 43 Lists, 120 Footnotes, and Too Many Panic Attacks to Count, All in Four Novels about Ruby Oliver
“Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.”
Source: Inkheart
“Sometimes it's a huge amble, where you're just on top, on the lid, and it's not going anywhere, and sometimes you walk on the stage and from the first note, the afterburner kicks in and you can't stop it.”
“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”
“Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.”
“Sometimes it's a little depressing - why does the world need any more pictures?”