S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.”
“Sometimes the people who hurt us the most are people who were hurt more than us.”
“Sometimes the people who love us most hold us back because they want to protect us.”
Source: The Circus Train
“Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.”
“Sometimes the people who seem the toughest are the ones with the softest hearts.”
“Sometimes the people who’ve owned the books in this shop leave little clues between the pages, and not just love notes or pressed flowers. You might come upon an unused Amtrak ticket tucked between the pages of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or a sprinkling of crumbs along the gutter inside The Complete Engravings, Etchings, and Drypoints of Albrecht Dürer. Makes you wonder what kind of person noshes on a salami sandwich over The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”
Source: Petty Magic
“Sometimes the people who walk softly make the deepest impressions...”
“Sometimes the people with the worst childhoods make the best parents. They're more emphatic because of what they have endured.”
Source: Canvas
“Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future”
“Sometimes the people you thought would be there forever somehow aren't.”
“Sometimes the people you trust are the ones who will hurt you the most.”
Source: Torn Hearts
“Sometimes the person that excites you most isn't necessarily going to make the best husband or wife. It takes a lot to see past the glamor and glitter when you're looking to get married and look for someone who's going to be a loving companion that will stand by your side no matter what and better you while also seeking to be bettered by you.”
“Sometimes the person we love most, we push away the hardest.”
“Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.”
“Sometimes, the person who makes you feel most loved, happy, and alive… also teaches you how to survive without them.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.”
“Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.”
“Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.”
“Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history of what might be connected to the theme in the pictures and those are worth exploring.”
“Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.”
“Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.”
“Sometimes the planning and the work is not the most difficult aspect of an endeavor; it’s the waiting—waiting to see if the preparation, the implementation, and the bait, will land a catch—waiting, that time in between the effort and the result, the source of so much hope, frustration, doubt, anxiety, and perhaps, disenchantment. It can try those with even the firmest resolve.”
Source: Source*Forged Armor
“Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Sometimes the power of your faith, not the answer to your prayer, is the miracle.”
“Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door, because many people want what Andy Warhol called "15 minutes of fame." But prostitutes don't want that.”
“Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door.”
“Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.”
“Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties”
“Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.”
“Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.”
“Sometimes the problem outshines the pain.”
Source: Queen of Angels
“Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.”
“Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet reception?' Well, in some sense, yeah. ... All the wonders of quantum physics were learned basically from looking at atom-smasher technology. ... But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television. ... That's a spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe.”
“Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us”
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
“Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.”
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
“Sometimes the quiet isn’t peaceful. Sometimes it’s the warning before everything breaks.”
Source: The Quieting
“Sometimes the quietest love is the loudest.”
Source: The Right Move
“Sometimes the quietest voices are the ones that need to be heard the most.”
Source: Rainbow Six
“Sometimes the quitest love is the loudest.”
Source: The Right Move
“Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.”
“Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a quote or something that comes [into the work] later. There's nothing that happens by coincidence. It's fate, I would say.”
“Sometimes the real action in a conversation takes place in the pauses, when nothing at all is being said.”
Source: Blamestorming: Why Conversations Go Wrong and How to Fix Them
“Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.”
“Sometimes the reason people have a problem accepting 'the gospel' is that they sense that the God lurking behind Jesus isn't safe, loving, or good. It doesn't make sense, it can't be reconciled, and so they say no.”
Source: Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
“Sometimes, the reason that people don’t get along is because they feel that their role is to be selfish or submissive—not understanding that American simply means understanding who we are so that we can help others do the same.”
Source: The Conversation Starts Here: A Perspective of Self, Culture, and the American Society
“Sometimes the reason we are failing or not being successful. It is because we don’t have deadlines for the things we do. We don’t have a start date for the things we want to do.
If you are not choosing when. Chances are it will be never.
We need to choose the start date, the time, the place, the day and the deadline to get progress in whatever we are doing. Also, to get something done.”
“Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question.”