S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”
Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.”
Source: Lost Girls: A Novel
“Sometimes people come and they have so much pain and confusion in their eyes... what to do? A few words is a little bit of balm but doesn't really solve the deep disease within.”
“Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes directors barely talk to the actors; they are so focused on the cinematic elements of the movie, getting the shot and getting the lighting right or getting the CGI effects right and all of that, and they just trust that you are just going to do what you do.”
“Sometimes people come into life as a shield of shine, making you realize it is actually worth living for them in this cruel world.”
“Sometimes people come into our lives to make us a softer person, other times they come to teach us to let go, and occasionally the relationship wasn’t a lesson about the relationship ‘us’, but a lesson about the relationship you have with yourself.”
Source: Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
“Sometimes people come into your life for a season and other times for a lifetime.”
“Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.”
“Sometimes people come to heal your pain and end up by giving you bit more of that”
“Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember that line as the one. You're putting part of your human being on the page so people are going to have different responses - the other humans are going to connect with different parts.”
“Sometimes people come up and they get infatuated with some little brief imagistic poem or something, and they say, "Oh, I really like your Zen poems." And I say, "Which ones are not Zen poems?"”
“Sometimes people confuse contrivance and authenticity, and sometimes I think authenticity can get in the way of a good excuse to do something theatrical. I just don't like wasting opportunity - if you're going to do a photo session, if you're going to walk on stage, why not make it interesting?”
“Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.”
“Sometimes people couldn't be together even if they love each other. Sometimes it's just too hard.”
Source: Syler McKnight
“Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.”
“Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.”
“Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.”
“Sometimes people decide not to like me for the most arbitrary reasons. Sometimes it's just because I'm famous, and successful people make them uncomfortable. Sometimes it's because I voted differently than them. And sometimes it's because I frowned outside their favorite yogurt shop and now they want to cancel me forever because they think I'm against yogurt.”
Source: When in Rome
“Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people look at some of the work that's been done by people who have been there. But that's not to say that we will not be very glad at the day that conditions permit the closure of Guantanamo and the trying of its inhabitants or for their release.”
“Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.”
“Sometimes people do foolish and dangerous things for nearly no reason at all, other than the opportunity presents itself, and no small voice in their heads tells them not to do it.”
Source: Nina's Friends
“Sometimes people do get hurt”
Source: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
“Sometimes people do much wrong unintentionally, meaning for the best”
“Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.”
Source: Sometimes It Happens
“Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.”
“Sometimes people do what they think is for the best, and their intentions are misinterpreted.”
Source: Prisoner of the Inquisition
“Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.”
Source: Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir
“Sometimes people do you favour by leaving your life. You have to adopt that WOW factor,
With Or Without you attitude then move on and move up.”
Source: Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket II: Babydaddy Series
“Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy.”
Source: Maizy Chen's Last Chance
“Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“Sometimes people don't realize that we're not only celebrating who we have become but also celebrating who we COULD'VE become... and fought hard not to be.”
“Sometimes people don’t understand
the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.
Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.
But you keep the promise anyway. That’s
what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Sometimes people don't want to look back because they are afraid of facing the truth. But sometimes, facing the truth we're afraid of is what makes us who we're really supposed to be.”
Source: Just Like Me
“Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!”
Source: Scholastic Newbery Collection
“Sometimes people don't have to make you love them...you just do, and there's no help for it.”
Source: Love, Come to Me
“Sometimes people don't notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.”
“Sometimes people don't rehearse at all, but you might have had a chance to rehearse for a few days, or even more than that. Then in the moment when the camera's running is the only time it matters. So whatever you've discussed or thought about or discussed with the director, the other actors, hopefully there's a part of the experience that you've left open so that only in that moment the camera catches it. That's of course the hardest thing to do because everything is planned and you have thought about it in advance.”
“Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.”
“Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
“Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.”
“Sometimes people fake perfection. But the people who show their mistakes are real, and they are the creators in the world.”
“Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.”
“Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.”
“Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little sort of curiosities or I think doubt sometimes a sheer sort of mental attitude, some change in our brain. So these fields, now scientists are showing some interest.”
“Sometimes people forget their own greatness.”
“Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."”
“Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.”
Source: The Summer Girls
“Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.”