S Quotes
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“Sometimes, though no one ever asks, I say that it was moving to the East Coast that led me to understand that I was raced—to understand that the gaze upon my body bore the effects of a system far larger than me. I could no longer think of myself as a neutral subject; no one was, and in that realization there was a kind of relief. Emboldened by my reading, I began to consider my own Asian-Americanness, and within it to draw a distinction between East and Southeast Asian, finally acknowledging the effects of being a repeatedly colonized subject—the ways women who looked like me had been degraded and degraded. Because I was emphatically a brown girl fucking, I related to the term ABJECT so much that I made endless puns about it: ABJECT PERMENANCE, ABJECT STORY, ABJECT OF YOUR AFFECTION. For that was how I felt, melodramatic as it was: cast-off, objectified. Kristeva was the spotlight that illuminated my condition.”
Source: Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy
“Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.”
Source: Compulsion
“Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you.”
Source: Son of a Witch
“Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.”
“Sometimes time cannot sweep wonderful places and people into the backwater of our own histories because the preciousness of those places and those people refuses to be swept away.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Sometimes time constraints bring out something cool.”
“Sometimes, to avoid obstacles, you must also avoid appellation.”
“Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.”
“Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King.”
“Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.”
“Sometimes to be seen is the same thing as being saved.”
“Sometimes, to capture a predator, we need to become prey.”
Source: Immortal Fears
“Sometimes to change a situation you are in requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won't be able to fly unless you are willing to transform.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Sometimes to defeat somebody that plays dirty, you have to play dirty yourself.”
Source: The One (Book #5): Part 1 - Weak
“Sometimes to destroy the monsters that we face, we have to come against them in the same way that they have come against us. But if I do so in the power of God, I might have come against them in the same way, but I have come against them with a very different kind of power. And in that sense, nothing is the same.”
“Sometimes to destroy the monsters that we face, we have to come against them in the same way that they have come against us. But if I do so in the power of God, I might have come against them in the same way, but I have come against them with a very kind of different power. And in that sense, nothing is the same.”
“Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.”
“Sometimes, to do wrong deeds, one's intentions don't have to be bad; unfavorable timing and circumstances might lead one to do so.”
Source: विप्लवी [Biplavi]
“Sometimes to escape the noise of haunting memories, you need your best friends hand in your own, to help erase the sound and fill you with a sense of peace, even if it’s temporary.”
Source: Escape the Doubt
“Sometimes to find the light, you have to go through the deepest darkness.”
“sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler”
“Sometimes, to fix people up, you have to be brave.”
Source: Now
“Sometimes to get in the "musical mood," I'll just turn on music really loud, or go drive around and listen to music, or learn a song that I really like on guitar or piano. That gets me in the right frame of mind to proceed.”
“Sometimes, to get love, 'Azāzīl needs to become Iblis.”
Source: The Red Island: The Gatekeeper
“Sometimes to get to God,
first you gotta meet the Devil.”
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.”
“Sometimes, to have fun, you've got to be willing to take a chance - and even be frightened!”
Source: The Icedrop
“Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.”
“Sometimes to imagine that you are having fuck with a sexy girl or a hot girl or with a girl which you want to have. It's useless it won't happen, and you can't do anything!”
“Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.”
“Sometimes to live again, we have to let ourselves die completely. We have to let ourselves become completely, utterly new. When grief rings, surrender. There is nothing else to do. The delivery is utter transformation.”
Source: Untamed
“Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.”
Source: Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel
“Sometimes to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.”
“Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative process. It allowed me to write songs that surprised me, and in fact, inspired me.”
“Sometimes to observe what's going on in your life you have to sit back and become a spectator of your own life.”
“Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying.”
“Sometimes, to protect what one treasures the most, one might need to cross certain limits which others may deem impossible to overpass. To overcome one’s fears and boundaries in order to do what one considers right – that is the true freedom. Indeed, a casual civilian might not be able to do that… but a pirate will.”
Source: Galaxy Pirates
“Sometimes to reach something, we must sacrifice something too.”
“Sometimes to reach the pearly gates of heaven, you have to walk through stony roads of hell.”
“Sometimes... to reach who you really are - to get to the core - you have to take that risk. Step through the fear. It's like crossing a bridge: it's scary, it's cold, the wind knocks you sideways. But once you're halfway across, you realize the view is better from there. And you don't want to go back.
Chapter 42”
Source: Voluntary pain
“Sometimes to rediscover the happiness you have lost you need to revisit habits that have laid dormant in the crypt while unhappiness has been allowed to fester.
Open the vault
Pull the happy habits out”
“Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.”
Source: Rebel Spring
“Sometimes, to say that you know a person without putting that sentence in the past tense is essentially to lie. For people learn, people change, and people grow. After then, there is now.”
“Sometimes to see the truth, you must turn blind to the obvious.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”
“Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and charts and vertical lines. And that's scary - that's scary to do. And the fallout from it can be brutal.”
“Sometimes, to speak eloquently, you must remain silent. Max knows this. But often to remain silent is a crime.”
Source: In the Warsaw Ghetto
“Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.”
Source: Tre cavalli