S Quotes
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“Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.”
“Sometimes violence in a very real way is much faster and more impactful because it feels real and you're watching it happen and you're watching your star do these things, so it's not like he's doing superhero moves.”
“Sometimes Violet envied her grandmother’s empty mind, her quickness to forget, and the ease with which she returned to a peaceful state. It was almost as if the disease didn’t allow anything but good thoughts to remain in her mind. Any trauma and evil seemed to vanish as soon as it could.”
Source: Once I Knew
“Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.”
Source: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
“Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.”
“Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.”
“Sometimes waiting makes the culmination that much sweeter.”
Source: Strangers in the Desert
“Sometimes Waldemar loves me too much. He thinks it is better I stay with him on Earth, rather than be happy in the other place without him.”
Source: Homesick for Another World
“Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own.”
“Sometimes walking away is the bravest kind of love, the one you give to yourself.”
“Sometimes walking away isn’t weakness—it’s the first step toward surviving.”
Source: Walking Away
“Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.”
Source: The Last Four Things
“Sometimes, war can make a change.
Sometimes, change can ignite a war.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Sometimes war may become the only resort available, but never try to justify it, by saying that it's the right thing to do, because war is never the right thing to do, no matter how right you feel. When you fire that first shot, you have no idea how many lives are going to be destroyed, no matter how right you feel. Once you fire that first shot you have no idea how many children will be orphaned. Once you fire that first shot you have no idea how many homes will be burnt to ashes. So why not make an effort to break that savage habit of retaliation, and sit down together in order to understand each other beyond the petty little differences born of instinctual tribalism!”
Source: Fabric of Humanity
“Sometimes war takes an arm, or an eye, or it takes two legs from us, but above all the war takes our belief in humanity away from us!”
“Sometimes waves attack the shores like an enemy; the shore stays calm, and at last the wave gets tired, lies down in front of the shore and bows respectfully! When life attacks you like an enemy, you too act like these wise shores!”
“Sometimes, we accidentally stumble into drama and refuse to look away. Refuse to be pulled aways to safety. We dive in to save those who did not ask to be saved and do not appreciate our intervention. Self-sacrificing moths to the flame of fire that was not intended to consume us. Walk away.”
Source: The Heart and Soul of Black Women: Poems of Love, Struggle and Resilience
“Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against reality. This brings to mind the story of the woman who always cut off the end of the turkey when she put it in the oven. Her daughter asked her why, and her mother responded, "I don't know. My mother always did it." Then she went and asked her mother, who said, "I don't know. My mother always did it." The she went and asked her grandmother, who said, "The oven wasn't big enough."”
“Sometimes we all forget that the world itself is paradise, and there has been much of late to enourage that amnesia. (Microserfs, p 366)”
Source: Microserfs
“Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.”
“Sometimes we all just need a little laughter.”
“Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.”
“Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.”
“Sometimes we all want to be like a statue: Always calm; always observer; always listening; always fearless and always inspiring!”
“Sometimes we all want to disappear in the depths of an infinite path and the reason of this is obvious: We all come from the depths of infinity!”
“Sometimes we also find a tendency to view everything that's indigenous as good and anything "European"-such as Spain-as evil. That view overlooks such historical realities as the Aztec empire's oppressive domination of other indigenous societies and its class system, which privileged priests and the military. That view also forgets Spain was not a typically European nation after 600 years of rule by the Moors, an Arab/Berber people from Africa.”
Source: De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
“Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually I sing Fake Plastic Trees while he reams me from behind *Laughs* It wears me out *laughs*.”
“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.”
Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
“Sometimes we are called back to the things we most want to flee, perhaps because they left such a mark that we don’t know how to leave them behind.”
Source: State of Paradise
“Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.”
Source: Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet
“Sometimes we are fooled by appearances. In my
opinion, we should never be sorry if we later discover that we were mistaken while doing a good deed. The need to help should be our first reaction and offering help should be the genuine manifestation of being a good human as our parents taught us to be. Sometimes, we may discover we helped the wrong person, but that should not be a reason to stop helping other
people in need, even though we were fooled previously. If you want to do good there are opportunities everywhere. Don’t let the fools spoil your good heart.”
Source: LESSONS in LIFE: Achieving a better you through self-reflection
“Sometimes we are given exactly what we need. The precise people that you need the most come stumbling into your life. Sometimes you don't notice, and this is very sad. Sometimes you lose them again. This is sad too, but not as sad. Because what you have once had together you have forever.”
Source: The Memory of Love: A Novel
“Sometimes we are given people in our lives for a little while to get the breed of greatness found in them so they will manifest in us even when they are out of sight.”
Source: In the midst of the womb
“Sometimes we are granted an unfortunate set of circumstances in the moments we least expect them.”
Source: Love At First Mud
“Sometimes we are inclined to think that a very great portion of modern revivalism has been more a curse than a blessing, because it has led thousands to a kind of peace before they have known their misery; restoring the prodigal to the Father’s house, and never making him say, “Father, I have sinned.””
“Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.”
“Sometimes we are just the collateral damage in someone else's war against themselves.”
“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.”
“Sometimes, we are like that sneeze who abandons those who need us the most.”
“Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!”
Source: Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States
“Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.”
Source: Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States
“Sometimes we are looking for somebody we can connect with on the basis of a shared past or a tradition or experience. And so finding that you're sitting next to someone very much like you in terms of where they come from is enormously reassuring.”
“Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course”
“Sometimes we are lucky to lose something or someone.”
“Sometimes we are more attached to the pain than the pain is attached to us.”
“Sometimes we are not doing things because they are easy or because we like them. Most of the time . We do things because they are a necessity. That is why when comes time for those things being difficult, as much as we hate them, or we are failing in doing them. We don’t give up. We hold on until the end, because our good future and survival is depended on them.”
“Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.”
Source: Man and Boy: A Novel
“Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God's agenda.It's not.Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.”
Source: Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human
“Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.”