S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes, things may not be so great on his end, but he does not relent. His scars tell stories of resilience. He does not let anything hold him back from advancing toward greatness.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“Sometimes things need shaking up. You’ve got to test the limits.”
Source: About a Girl
“Sometimes, things need to change, because there just isn't any way for them to stay the same.”
Source: Jet
“Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.”
“Sometimes things occur beneath the surface that will eventually explode, and by then it is too late to deal with them, so the only recourse is to divorce or fight or even kill each other. To meditate is to be aware of what is going on in yourself, your feelings, your body, your perceptions, your family. The second technique is to recall, and the more details which the community has, the easier it is to help.”
Source: Being Peace
“Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.”
“Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.”
“Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.”
“Sometimes things seem too good to be true.”
“Sometimes things stand at a natural and expected distance from us. Over time, our relationship with these things become defined by the distance, despite the fact that we might find that distance unsettling at times. Yet at some entirely unexpected moment, we turn and the chasm has closed. The distance vanishes, as does our understanding of the relationship as once defined by the distance now gone. To our astonishment, what had become a relationship held in check by the limitations of distance is now freed to saturate itself in the richness of an entirely unfamiliar but utterly amazing intimacy. And the story of chasms gone and intimacy achieved is what God did at Christmas.”
“Sometimes things that are comfortable are comfortable because it's what you're good at. When you start doing the things you're not as comfortable with, there needs to be a reason for it.”
“Sometimes things that are necessary also cause us pain.”
Source: Arrow of Entropy
“Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.”
“Sometimes things will not go as planned, but don't lose hope. Stay focused on whatever you are trying to accomplish. There will be a breakthrough soon. Understand that all things take time. You may not be there yet, but you're on the right path towards success.”
“Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.”
Source: Bag of Bones
“Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.”
“Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.”
“Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero.”
“Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it's good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most.”
“Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“Sometimes thinking can be a bad thing. Thinking can be a sickness at times. You start thinking so much and start thinking about your past, your future and all these things when you really should be living. Thinking isn’t living.”
Source: The Wanted
“Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.”
“Sometimes this bag gets heavy
from carrying the weight of our tears
diluted in laughter.”
Source: These Things
“Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the rings. Occasionally I think about the future, but I try to do that sparingly because it usually makes me anxious.”
Source: Yes Please
“Sometimes, this disapproval of how you are managing your pain crosses over to disbelief that you are in as much pain as you say you are. They don’t believe that your pain is a legitimate enough reason to rest or nap or cry or take narcotic medications or not go to work or to go to the doctor. They might think that you are making too big of a deal out of it. They doubt the legitimacy of the pain itself.
This kind of stigma is the source of the dreaded accusation that chronic pain is “all in your head.” It’s as if to say that you are making a mountain out of a molehill.”
“Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“Sometimes this habit of using an entire book to tackle a single issue seems positively reckless. When the captain of your little pleasure cruiser spots a ferry hull looming over the horizon, do you really want him to reach for a copy of How to Avoid Huge Ships? Or would you rather that he kept his attention on the wheel?”
Source: Do-It-Yourself Brain Surgery and Other Implausibly Titled Books
“Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions.”
Source: Island of the Sequined Love Nun
“Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.”
“Sometimes this just happens,” Kylie said, much calmer now that she had a sneak preview of his
comeuppance.
“Just happens?” Burnett bellowed out. “Are you freaking kidding me! If you have sex, you use
protection. It’s that simple. This shit doesn’t have to happen! This is nothing but carelessness. It’s
irresponsible. It’s unforgivable.”
“Burnett!” Holiday rolled her eyes at Kylie and frowned. The fae knew exactly what Kylie was up
to now.
But Kylie wasn’t finished yet. “Maybe we should put a rule in place. Any male who impregnates a
girl should be neutered.”
“Enough,” Holiday snapped.
“Actually, that’s not a bad plan!” he growled.
“Burnett!” Holiday said in a stern voice. “Shut up before you embarrass yourself more than you
already have.” When the vampire looked at Holiday, she continued, “Kylie didn’t buy the pregnancy
tests for Miranda. She bought them for me.”
Kylie flopped back against the seat again, enjoying the look of disbelief on the vampire’s face a
little too much. “Would you like a name of a good doctor who will schedule your little snip-snip
operation?” she bit out.”
Source: Chosen at Nightfall
“Sometimes this poem tells itself nothing matters,
All's a joke. Relax, it says, everything's
Taken care of.
(A poem can lie.)”
Source: Duende
“Sometimes, this rage builds up inside me and I...I feel like it's eating me alive. Like soon there'll be nothing left of me but hatred and despair...It's more alive than I am.”
Source: Bone Cold
“Sometimes this story is full of love and hope. Sometimes it is full of anger and resentment. This is how I was trained to write as an anthropologist: not to avoid bias but to be up front with it.”
Source: Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration
“Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.”
Source: Moonlight on the Nantahala
“Sometimes this whole world looks very strange to you, the things you do seem strange to you, the behaviour of people, the conversations you hear here and there, the clothes, the roads, the plants, the animals, literally everything seems so strange to you! And let me tell you something weirder, that's exactly the feeling you should feel about this world, everything is really weird! Don't feel that you are mad when everything seems weird to you, because when everything seems normal to you, that’s real madness!”
“Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.”
“sometimes
this world feels
like the heaviest place
that we could ever know,
and it aches just to breathe here.
but then i look around,
and there are all of these
beautiful things… sunlight,
goodness, stars… you.”
“Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of putting something in my ear that's been in his, I sit back and let the music take over, and for a half hour there's something comforting about someone's heart beating at the same rhythm as mine.”
Source: Saving Francesca
“Sometimes those around us aren't a part of us, and that is something we must come to terms with. Sometimes we are alone. Sometimes we aren't plural.”
Source: Sameness
“Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.”
“Sometimes those fleas get to a woman," he told her as his hand warmed her flesh. "She gets an itch that nobody but a man can scratch”
Source: Garters
“Sometimes, those monsters seem worse simply because we haven't turned on the lights.”
Source: Broken Harbor
“Sometimes those who are easiest to love are hardest to respect. - Ashley Wilkes”
Source: Rhett Butler's People
“Sometimes those who bloom too early fade fast. Michael Kors struggled for years - and endured bankruptcy - before he became all rich and famous and fabulous.”
“Sometimes those who cannot create enjoy the power to destroy.”
Source: Bethlehem Road
“Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.”
“Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.”
“Sometimes those who start out the slowest end up going the farthest.”
“Sometimes those you value may not value you.
Those you love may not love you.
But God has a way of bringing the best people into your life, even when they seem like the wrong choice to you.
Always follow God's direction.”
“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
Source: The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence