S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes, we are simply trapped in the cage of our own emotions, unable to break those bars. It hurts!”
Source: We Will Meet Again...
“Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.”
Source: Like the Flowing River
“Sometimes we are so busy becoming something that we forget to become someone.”
“Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.”
“Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want.”
“Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.”
“Sometimes we are so comfortable in our little cages that someone has to come along, rip open the door and destroy the whole cage before we will look around us and realize that there is a whole world out there outside our little cage.”
Source: Submitting to the Billionaire
“Sometimes, we are so focused on what is next that we forget how much power there is in the present moment.”
“Sometimes, we are so focused on what we want that we are blind to the things that make us happy. It’s just incredible, and when I focus on what is right in front of me, nothing else matters. All my worries vanish.”
Source: One Among Us
“sometimes we are so lonely that we are more ready to fall in love with the concept of a person than the person in itself. Some people are thirsty for life, while others are hungry for love - and a girl who travels will know that there have been people who have fallen in love with her for the wrong reasons”
“Sometimes we are so upset about our meaningless worries that we keep losing focus of the goal all the time”
“Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others. He hopes that we will stop looking for those personal or communal niches which shelter us from the maelstrom of human misfortune and instead enter into the reality of other people’s lives and know the power of tenderness. Whenever we do so, our lives become wonderfully complicated and we experience intensely what it is to be a people, to be part of a people.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.”
“Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun.”
“Sometimes we are to guard our heart...protect it from invasion and keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart... let certain qualities out and release them to others”
Source: The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ
“Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.”
“Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose.”
“Sometimes we are written down in books. Or, someone tells a story in which our name figures. And so we live on, through someone else’s voice…
These are the indelible marks others make of us, like the watermarks of high tides, names carved into barks, or stamps branded onto belongings. For what else is history but the collected voices of others, who sing a chorus of what once was. It is not words but voices that are the inscriptions seared onto pages, into minds, of the fragments others glean, as we live our lives in passing.
Flitting and fl eeting, we rub off as we move through, and in our wake is cast the dust of the stars that we become. And sometimes it is caught on the fingers of others, and they press that gold to their lips, where it glistens, an eternal testimony to the fact that they adored us: So we, those of us who
remember, we grow more golden as we age, as if cast into statues that commemorate the splendor of those who loved us, and those we were privileged
to love.”
Source: The Westhampton Leisure Hour and Supper Club
“Sometimes
we aren't meant to
get over someone,
and we go on living
a little bit emptier.”
“Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.”
“Sometimes we ask ourselves 'Why?' Why do I continue to smile, to give, to live? Why do I continue to stand, despite the ferocity of the wind that keeps blowing, that keeps slapping against my face, creating a pressure that says 'fall'? Why I don't I listen to those who call me a fool because I continue to love despite my hurt? I don't know what tomorrow brings; I don't know if my troubles will seize or if my sorrows will continue. But this much I do know - I will continue to hold out, I will continue to press on, until my blessing comes.”
“Sometimes, we ask question not to get the answer but to get the better understanding of question itself.”
“Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied.”
Source: The Gift of Past Relationships
“Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad for us.”
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
“Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.”
“Sometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar.”
“Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.”
“Sometimes, we become so preoccupied with our own trials that we unwittingly reduce other people to the other. The other we interact with, come to enjoy the company of, perhaps even love, but the other nonetheless. We forget that they're people, too.”
Source: A Star-Reckoner's Lot
“Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.”
Source: Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union
“Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.”
“Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.”
“Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?”
“Sometimes we believe in miracles, and stars fall from the sky, as if the moon had poured his tears in gold.”
“Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.”
“Sometimes we break people's trust accidentally. An infraction such as not returning a phone call, missing a deadline, being late for an appointment, divulging a confidence, or speaking out of turn can damage our perceived character and reputation.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Sometimes we call these men domestic abusers when the victim is someone they know, but when they kill strangers to them, we just call these men crazy. Lone wolves. Unbalanced. But here's the thing - what is crazy about killing a woman in a culture that tells you women's lives are worth nothing?”
Source: Sex Object: A Memoir
“Sometimes we call what we do not understand primitive, sometimes magic. Each of us has a perspective to which we are attached. We only understand the other in relation to what we already know, but by believing, sympathising, even empathising, sometimes we can see beyond the limits of our knowledge. The alternative is to ignore or to attack.”
Source: How to Make a Human Being
“Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.”
“Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing”
Source: An Emerging Spirituality
“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?); whether we have to hold to some sort of theological determinism (God ordains all that comes to pass).”
“Sometimes we can make everything a little too perfect. I always was a fan of giving direction, but every now and then going, "I don't know. What do you think? Let's see what happens."”
“Sometimes we can make our own opportunities, sometimes we can see them coming, but more often than not they are like pop quizzes, they are sprung on you like a challenge to test your skills, almost like a dare to see if you can take that leap of faith to make whatever it is a success. Wait too long, and an excellent opportunity might slip away.”
Source: Vocation of a Gadfly
“Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.”
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us”
Source: Your Light Is The Key
“Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.”
Source: A Step of Faith: A Novel
“Sometimes we can save ourselves years of pain by what we are willing to say "no" to upfront. If it doesn't feel right from the beginning, putting up with it for 10 years, isn't going to make the process of saying "no" any easier.”
“Sometimes we can’t be present to the possibilities of our future until we navigate a peaceful path through the aftermath of our past.”
“Sometimes, we can’t help but to shed tears!”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got all of our fingers wrapped around a bunch of other things that are not important.”