S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.”
“Sometimes you can have everything you want but fail to achieve anything you need.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?”
“Sometimes you can hide just as effectively by sticking out.”
Source: I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Six's Legacy
“Sometimes you can incubate a character and that can take me a month just sitting on it imagining it, doing everything from sketching it to taking long walks, but sometimes you can see the character immediately. A lot of it is instinctive.”
“Sometimes you can just tell there's something unique about it, but you can never really truly tell until you show it to a third party - you show it to you friends, or you show it to people you know that know about music like my label or those kinda people.”
“Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.”
“Sometimes, you can learn something completely mind-blowing in yoga and then totally forget about it the minute you need it the most. Or just kind of choose to forget it. 'I don't need no philosophy, I need fixing.' Which isn't to say nothing ever goes wrong, because it does; or that they're aren't parts of you that you just can't bring yourself to accept or maybe even detest at times (which I know is a strong word but it does apply), because I'm sure there are; or that there's no such thing as catastrophe, because there is. Oh my god, there is. And sometimes all you want to do is fix it.”
Source: Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass
“Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.”
“Sometimes you can look right at a thing and not see it. Where’s the pepper, where’s the cumin, where’s the spatula, where’s my joy?”
Source: The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes
“Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.”
“Sometimes you can miss out on something amazing by being in a hurry.”
Source: This Is Our Song
“Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life.”
Source: Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”
“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”
“Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line.”
“Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.”
“Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.”
“Sometimes you can run away from a problem, but that doesn't make you a strong person; that doesn't give you honor! So, what to do? Stop running! Face your problem and fight your problem!”
“Sometimes you can save someone’s whole world just by smiling at them. Kindness is one of those things that has immense value to the person experiencing it.”
“Sometimes you can save time by waiting and finding out all there is to learn about a situation.”
“Sometimes, you can see more than me, but you pretend to know less so that I don’t feel intimidated by you. I do the same for you. We do not feel superior when the other is vulnerable; or inferior when we feel helpless. This is what sustains our relationship.”
Source: My Gita
“Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.”
“Sometimes, you can sit with someone in complete silence, doing nothing at all, yet it feels like everything. Other times, you can do everything together for centuries and still feel like strangers.”
“Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.”
“Sometimes, you can't be hopeful even when you want to.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Sometimes you can't fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast.”
“Sometimes you can't hate that person inside of you more than you really did.”
“Sometimes, you can't save someone from themselves.”
“Sometimes you can't say the things you're thinking. Sometimes it's too hard.”
Source: Radio Silence
“Sometimes you can't sleep on a feather bed, but you fall asleep peacefully on a cold stone!”
“Sometimes you can't stand the sound of her voice and other times you wonder how you'd even breathe if she wasn't there. That's marriage, and she'll feel the same way.”
Source: Taken with You
“Sometimes you can't understand infertility until you go through it yourself.”
Source: Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility
“Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.”
“Sometimes you can tell what something is by what is isn't.”
“Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.”
“Sometimes you can travel miraculous distances by making very small changes in your life, and sometimes you can't move even an inch without making a radical and big change in your life! Those who know what size change you need to make are the fastest movers in this world!”
“Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.”
“Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.”
“Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.”
“Sometimes you can't help but pay attention to what is written about you. You are trying not to because it's generally not constructive, it can be very funny, in which case it's fine to pay attention to it if you're going to laugh about it. But if it's going to get you angry then it's a pretty pointless waste of energy, so I try and be selective about what I take an interest in about myself.”
“Sometimes you can't know until you know.”
Source: Just One Day
“Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.”
“Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.”
“Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.”
Source: Life After God
“Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.”
“Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.”
“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”