S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all.”
Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece
“Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.”
“Sometimes you are in the middle of your destiny before you even know it has begun.”
“Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself.”
“Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.”
“Sometimes you are lured not by the promise of safety but the safety of knowing that here lies a sure thing.”
Source: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
“Sometimes you are more comfortable with a person who gets close without coming close.”
“Sometimes, you are moved by everything that
happens around you. A song moves you so much.
Its lyrics make you tear, its melodies take you to
another world. You read a poem and you wish
you were the one who wrote it. They say you
spend your whole life rewriting the poem you
loved once. You know that’s true. Because you
know how poets feel. You know how they think.
You know who they are.”
Source: Metanoia: Different shades of life
“Sometimes you are not replaced — you were simply temporary.”
“Sometimes, you are not under attack, you may be on the right path, even if the door closes right in front of your eyes. Some closed doors are orchestrated by the Mighty One to save your life.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Sometimes you are planted apart to see how you will grow together.”
“Sometimes you are tempted to lose patience with someone and to not waste words on people who—according to you, in a given situation and at a particular time—deserve your silence. Well, that’s exactly when you’d better remember that everyone has a story, everyone has gone through something that has changed them, and often not for the better. That’s when you show who you really are and what life has taught you so far. Qui si parrà la tua nobilitate (“Here thy nobility shall be manifest!” Dante’s Inferno, Canto 2).”
“Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.”
“Sometimes you are working and you feel like walking out into the terrace, stretching, looking out and feeling the night air on your face.”
“Sometimes you aren’t listening to your body because you’re listening to everybody else’s expectations.”
“Sometimes you aren’t meant to worry about the 'how'. Instead, you are being called to focus on taking things step-by-step. One foot in front of the other. It’s all coming together.”
“Sometimes you arrive late in the process of filming, which makes it a little scary because they've already got this well-established technique going on, and all of the relationships are comfy and cozy. You have to figure out how to fit in, which can always be a scary first day.”
“Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.”
“Sometimes, you ask questions not to get the answer but to get the better understanding of question itself.”
“Sometimes you audition and you just know that this is going to come to you.”
“Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.”
“Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.”
“Sometimes you believe that you are targeting a 25-35-year-old young woman and you see that there is a crowd of 78-year-old people who are coming to buy some underwear, so it's not exactly the same kind of underwear that you have to sell.”
“Sometimes you believe that you know all the answers.
And sometimes all the answers make you believe that you are ignorant”
“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way.”
Source: Shantaram
“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.”
Source: Wild Roses
“Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.”
“Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.”
“Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.”
Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn
“Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry.”
“Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.”
“Sometimes you can catch a whole worldview from a snippet of bar talk.”
“Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.”
Source: Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade
“Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.”
“Sometimes you can defuse a difficult situation simply by being willing to understand the other person. Often all that people need is to know that someone else cares about how they feel and it attempting to understand their position.”
“Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.”
“Sometimes you can do certain things on stage, or even in a TV series, and people see the look on your face and they know what you mean, so you can get away with certain things. But if you can't create that look on an animated character, which is essentially a puppet, the line will hit the audience in a very bad way.”
“Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.”
“Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.”
“Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.”
“Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.”
“Sometimes you can fix something that went wrong with what you do next and make it better than it would have been if it hadn't gone wrong, as an improviser, and I do know how to do that.”
“Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.”
“Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.”
Source: Killer.com
“Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.”
“Sometimes you can have a great scene but it just doesn't need to be in the movie. If it's not progressing the plot, not progressing the story, not adding to the momentum, or if it's not purposefully serving a breath - it has got to go.”
“Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.”
“Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once. That's the thing. You know, I think that's particularly pertinent with Justin [Bieber] because, like, you just forget how young he is.”