S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.”
“Sometimes there is little regard for people's lives....A hospital tested a new NCI drug ...on children. Their kidneys were lost within days. This was no big deal, because new drugs are routinely given out with literally no safeguards for people.”
“Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.”
“Sometimes there is more magic in "I miss you" than in "I love you”.”
Source: Utopias and Realities: A Colorful Journey Through Life
“Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You come home and you say do not tell me. You say, I have hunted the elk all over the snowfields of the Selway, and I do not want to know what happened here. And then there is a morning you walk in and take a look in your own house, like any traveler.”
Source: We Are Not in This Together: Stories
“Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.”
Source: Fear Nothing: A Novel
“Sometimes there is no good choice. But you still have to make a choice.”
“Sometimes there is no good choice. Just the choice that has to be made.”
Source: The Dark Days Club
“Sometimes there is no good reason why you stop talking to someone. You don’t know how you don’t know why.”
“Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow”
Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four
“Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.”
“Sometimes, there is no reason. Sometimes you kill and you hate killing but you are a soldier through and through so you keep killing. Your friends die. Your lovers die. And what you have at the end of your life is not the surety that you did it for some grand reason, but the hard knowledge that something was taken from you and you also gave it away. And you know you will carry that weight with you always. For it is a regret that only death can relieve.”
Source: A Sky Beyond the Storm
“Sometimes there is no right thing. Sometimes wrong wins, and that's okay. Life doesn't have cooker-cutters for right and wrong, Ryder. There's that messy gray area in between, and I sure hope I'm not the one staring down the barrel of your gun when you figure that out." Muse ~ Darkest Before Dawn. #3 The Veil Series”
Source: Darkest Before Dawn
“Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!”
“Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.”
Source: Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel
“Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.”
“Sometimes, there is only a thin line between diplomacy and a lie.”
“Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You.”
“Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.”
“Sometimes there is so much external noise going around that we lose ourselves in the process.”
Source: The Suited Monk: Finding Your Life's Purpose and True Happiness
“Sometimes there is so much that needs to be said that we must get really quiet in the hopes that someone out there is listening hard enough to the silence to hear every last word.”
“Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.”
Source: Between Shades of Gray
“Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.”
Source: Between Shades of Gray
“sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another, and another, and another / when the world is shit-streaked with irony that is when beauty will emerge / love is irony / purists sure hate farce / but pushing against things is the only possible way to live”
“Sometimes there is unpleasant news about a minister, and the people think that Satan is responsible, but he is not. God brought that man down. God showed the world that his ministers are not perfect, and that they need deliverance just like everyone else. God will not tolerate pride or idolatry for any man.”
Source: Satan Swallowed Up
“Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better.”
“Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.”
“Sometimes there must be someone who says something nobody else does on something the majority agrees but stays silent not to put a target on their backs.”
“Sometimes there’s a scent in the air so beautiful, earthly, and alive that it makes me feel ravenous, like this sharp awakening moment wants to cut me open to prove how empty I am, to show how much space there is for me to fill. What will I fill it with? I could eat the dirt and all that is in it and sense it wouldn’t be enough. I am giddy. I want to fly.”
Source: On Being 40
“Sometimes there's an element of truth in a smidgeon of sarcasm.”
Source: Vocation of a Gadfly
“Sometimes there's an implicit need to use the law, taking legal action and involving oneself with social action projects to bring about positive changes in society. This is one of the reasons why I love the law.”
“Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure.”
Source: Dear Rockstar
“Sometimes there’s no map when you go to new places, you have to make unexpected turns, but the beauty is these places are new.”
“Sometimes, there's no one around to tell you to be quiet... to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you're all alone.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“Sometimes there's no right decision. Just the one you make at the time.”
Source: The Library of Lost and Found
“Sometimes there’s no way to get the upper hand without taking a few uppercuts.”
“Sometimes there's not much difference between a heartsick soul and a suck ole donkey.”
Source: The Great Unexpected
“Sometimes there's nothing
to be done.
Sometimes
they're not listening,
can't hear,
don't want to,
don't believe you.
Sometimes
you cannot stop the storm,
stem the tide,
change the path of the ocean liner
even though it hasn't quite yet hit the iceberg.
There will be times
despite all efforts
you will feel
completely misunderstood
completely unappreciated
completely wronged.
Sometimes love
just
isn't enough.”
“Sometimes there's nothing you can do. Maybe sometimes promises had to be broken. Maybe sometimes you were doomed to failure from the start, no matter how hard you fought. But acknowledging your own helplessness was no consolation - if anything, it just made you feel worse.”
Source: Songkeeper
“Sometimes there was a serious article on a hot topic, and I especially remember one by a bishop headed "Is Nudity Salacious?" The bishop thought it need not be, if encountered in the proper spirit, but he gave a lot of enlightening examples of conditions under which it might be, in his word, "inflammatory." There wasn't much nudity in our neck of the woods, and I enjoyed that article tremendously.”
Source: The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books
“Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as singularity, or until the empty place expanded and hollowed out the rest of you so thoroughly you became the walking dead, a ghost in your own life.”
Source: Bone Gods
“Sometimes there was no third book. No resolution no matter how many times you reread or how hard you wished for it.”
Source: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
“Sometimes there was nothing to grasp.
So, every time we let go.”
Source: Montgomery's Diary
“Sometimes there was the pure, primal pain of grief, and other times there was anger, the frantic desire to claw and hit and kill, and sometimes, like right now, ther was just ordinary, dull sadness, settling itself softly, suffocatingly over her like a heave fog.
She was just so damned sad.”
Source: The Husband's Secret
“Sometimes there were kids who were simply born to be thirty, or fifty, or seventy; I could see their unfinished teenaged faces overlaid with the transparencies of their aged selves and had to resist telling them so - that the maturity that wanted was going to happen, that someday they would look as completed as they felt, in their fleeting, truest moments.”
Source: The Half Brother
“Sometimes there will be unnecessary battles orchestrated by the enemy to remove your focus from your vision. Do not be reckless if you want to be victorious.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Sometimes there will be unnecessary battles orchestrated by the enemy to shift your focus from your vision. Do not be reckless if you want to be victorious.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Sometimes there would be couples, arm in arm—laughing, happy, amorous. Victims of an enormous fraud, and at the same time its perpetrators, or so I felt.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed”
Source: Nights In Rodanthe