S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.”
“Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line.”
“Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.”
“Sometimes, you have to realize that what isn't meant for you will never stay in your life, regardless of convincing, begging, or ultimatums.
Then why beg, why chase, why convince them to pick you, choose you, love you? You are better than this. Let them go!”
Source: Sometimes..: 101 Days of Healing Through Words
“Sometimes you have to realize that you’ve HAD enough to realize that you ARE enough.”
Source: You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole
“Sometimes you have to rely on sex and bodily functions.”
“Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.”
“Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.”
“Sometimes you have to sacrifice because you see what the end goal is. When you have a dream and you want to get it done, you can't wait on other people.”
“Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.”
“Sometimes you have to sacrifice your queen to capture the king.”
Source: Queen
“Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.”
“Sometimes you have to say no to things that people don't want you to say no to in the interest of self-preservation. I definitely went through some times that I did more than I could handle, and I was trying to make decisions for the best of my career; the irony was that those decisions were a direct cause of my inability to produce, perform, create anything. If you are not emotionally and personally stable and intact and healthy, then the entire foundation of what you do this for - the things that you make - is gone.”
“Sometimes you have to say screw it and mess it up”
“Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps to get across what's on the page, and I just love working with directors who allow that.”
“Sometimes you have to say, "No. This is my space." If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.”
“Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.”
Source: Hunger Point: A Novel
“Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.”
“Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.”
“Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see whats underneath.”
Source: So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us
“Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.”
“Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.”
“Sometimes you have to shut down politics and talk to the engineers.”
“Sometimes you have to sigh for those moments you forget you are wearing your cape.”
“Sometimes you have to sit alone and enjoy the nature and try to see in the sky transparent faces.”
“Sometimes you have to skate through life, sliding on the surface because it's too hard to feel. So you keep going. Keep busy. Fill the days, hours, and minutes, hoping to come out on the other side. Stopping to try to understand why causes too much pain.”
Source: How to Stand Up to a Dictator
“Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you'll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.”
Source: It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set
“Sometimes you have to smile to keep from crying.”
Source: Twist Into Me
“Sometimes you have to stand back and let people do what they are good at, even if it seems like madness at the time,”
Source: Chain of Gold
“Sometimes you have to stay alone, a little moment of solitude gives you the opportunity to knock on the door to your brain, and it opens to a sudden bright idea.”
“Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.”
Source: Leaving Paradise
“Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.”
“Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success.”
“Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.”
“Sometimes you have to stop trying to control everything and let life happen the way it's supposed to, Tess. Even if it's not exactly the way you wanted.
But what if it's not even a little like you wanted?
Then you deal with it and keep going.”
“Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.”
“Sometimes you have to stuff certain memories so far in your back pocket that you forget they exist. And nothing that happens will cause you to pull it out. It's the only way I can keep my head on straight.”
Source: Butterflies Behind Glass & Other Stories
“Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!”
“Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?”
“Sometimes you have to suffer in life, not because you were bad, but because you didn't realize where and when to stop being good.”
“Sometimes, you have to suffer through abuse twice. The first time is when it happens to you. The second time is when you are not believed.”
“Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.”
“Sometimes you have to swim through a bit of darkness if you’re ever going to surface in the light.”
Source: Coral
“Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can’t be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.”
“Sometimes you have to take a shot in the dark to discover the light.”
“Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.”
“Sometimes you have to take the harder course of action.”
“Sometimes, you have to take your eyes off that sun and look at the picture as a whole, from a distance and see how they all fit together on one canvas.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Sometimes you have to tell the whole damn truth no matter how ugly and painful it may be. America needs to smell and sit in her own feces for a while and walk around and let the world see her stained rear end and cover its nose at the stench of her democracy.”
Source: Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics