S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes what tortures us is in our own mind.”
Source: Overload
“Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.”
Source: 1185 Park Avenue
“Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.”
“Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.”
Source: The Iron-Jawed Boy
“Sometimes what we don't wish for is more powerful than what we do.”
“Sometimes, what we feel and what we say are entirely different things.”
“sometimes, what we feel lives in soul places, and how we love, it’s in distant heartbeats”
“Sometimes what we have is valued the most when it is most fragile, when it is most threatened.”
Source: The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny
“Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.”
“Sometimes what we need is time. Time to feel what we are feeling until our emotions run out of energy and we can resurface for air.”
“Sometimes, what we need the most is the strength to survive in this world. Which forces us to pay, to watch the demons destroy the paradises we built and dance on its ruins.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“Sometimes what we need to do is just to wait a little longer!”
“Sometimes what we see as an instance of a toddler crying the toddler sees as it reasoning.”
“Sometimes what we see in our judgement to other individuals are the things that we are trying to hide.”
“Sometimes what we seek to gain through "winning" a conflict is not worth what we're refusing to sacrifice. And true compromise often involves sacrifice: As on the path between Scylla and Charybdis, the monsters of Greek mythology who lie on either side of a narrow strait to devour sailors and ships, either way you go there will be losses. Through life experience we gradually learn to differentiate between the ideals, values and principles which can, and those which cannot, be compromised.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“Sometimes what we think is a disappointment is God working behind the scenes protecting us from that situation. Trust and believe, He will always come through for you with another opportunity, and catapult you with something more significant and fulfilling.”
“Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.”
“Sometimes what we think we need isn’t what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts.”
Source: Home to Harmony
“Sometimes what we think we want is not what we need.”
“Sometimes what we thought we'd never want becomes the only thing we desperately need.”
Source: The Upside of Falling Down
“SOMETIMES WHAT WE WANT BUT CANT GET IT, EVEN WE DO NOT TRY TO GET IT. AT LAST WE SATISFIED JUST FAILURE.”
“Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.”
Source: Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure
“Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della”
Source: Simple Perfection: A Novel
“Sometimes what we want lies behind a door our own actions have locked tight.”
Source: Captive, Mine
“Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end.”
Source: Bones of Faerie
“Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”
“Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.”
“Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound.”
“Sometimes, what you are longing for can lead you to closed doors. Whatever you desire, ensure it aligns with your goals.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Sometimes, what you fear is a supernatural strategy designed to block you from receiving your true freedom.”
“sometimes what you feel
about someone just isn’t enough.
it just isn’t.
because what they feel about themselves
will try to destroy what you feel about yourself
if you get close to them.”
“sometimes what you have planned, is nothing like the plan your soul invited you, to this earth for.”
“Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.”
“Sometimes what you love to do could even make many people to hate you. You may go through non-formal torments, character assassinations, verbal assaults and societal rejections, but if you are convinced about your love for what you are doing, you will never give up.”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.”
Source: The First Phone Call From Heaven
“Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.”
“Sometimes what you see is not real, and the reality is not what you see. Somewhere between both these reasoning resides a fact: where there is a lack of trust and confidence, perception will always differ with reality.”
“Sometimes what you see of a person
Is only what they want you to see
But if you disrespect that part
They will see all of you”
“Sometimes what you think is true, what you think is safe and good, is actually evil in disguise. Evil is so enticing, so deceiving, that you don't know its evil until it's wrapped you up and caressed you as a lover. You gaze into its eyes, enraptured by the pretty words whispers softly in your ears, realzing to late that the pretty words were all just twisted lies”
Source: Beyond the Veil
“Sometimes what you want is exactly what you get.”
Source: ThinNing
“Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.”
“Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.”
Source: Ruth Gordon, an open book
“Sometimes what your heart truly desires involves you building a brand new skill or stepping way outside of your comfort zone to try something new.”
“Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.”
“Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.”
“Sometimes when a father has an ugly, loutish son, the love he bears him so blindfolds his eyes that he does not see his defects, or, rather, takes them for gifts and charms of mind and body, and talks of them to his friends as wit and grace. I, however—for though I pass for the father, I am but the stepfather to "Don Quixote"—have no desire to go with the current of custom, or to implore thee, dearest reader, almost with tears in my eyes, as others do, to pardon or excuse the defects thou wilt perceive in this child of mine. Thou art neither its kinsman nor its friend, thy soul is thine own and thy will as free as any man's, whate'er he be, thou art in thine own house and master of it as much as the king of his taxes and thou knowest the common saying, "Under my cloak I kill the king;" all which exempts and frees thee from every consideration and obligation, and thou canst say what thou wilt of the story without fear of being abused for any ill or rewarded for any good thou mayest say of it.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.”
Source: My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles
“Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.”
“Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.”
“Sometimes when a person does things to deliberately hurt you,
All you need to do is shift atleast six steps back to observe the situation.
If it is worth enduring, move two steps forward.
If not, turn around and bless them with your back.”