S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes yuh gotta love even when it don't make sense.”
Source: The Last Carolina Girl
“Sometimes, 'no' really does mean no.”
“Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.”
“Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.”
“Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.”
“Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.”
“Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.”
“Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”
Source: East of Eden
“Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.”
“Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.”
“Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.”
“Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.”
“Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.”
“Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.”
Source: The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time
“Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.”
“Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was over on the dresser, pounding, and I was watching it. I asked some of the doctors who drifted through the intensive-care unit what kind of effect total cocaine abuse has on the heart and they said things like, "Well, there's not enough valid information...." That kind of answer.”
“Sometimes, after you have taken part in a seven, one or two-day retreat, you could feel that your level of practice had risen. That was because we had given our undivided attention to breaking through our level of practice. We knew that was the sole purpose of coming to a retreat here, so our levels were uplifted and our karma left behind.”
“Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.”
“Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.”
Source: Total Chaos
“Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.”
“Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.”
Source: The Storyteller
“Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.”
“Sometimes, all you can do... is sing.”
“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”
Source: The Devotion of Suspect X: A Detective Galileo Novel
“Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.”
“Sometimes, all you need to do is pull back a little to protect your heart, not turn your back entirely.”
“Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.”
“Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.”
“Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God”
“Sometimes, as a team, you win together. Sometimes as a team you lose together.”
“Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.”
“Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.”
“Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need to run an idea by Steve [King].”
“Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.”
Source: Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life
“Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.”
“Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.”
“Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs.”
“Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.”
“Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.”
“Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.”
“Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.”
“Sometimes, Barack Obama is Martin Luther King, sometimes, he a black militant from the Sixties, then he's a Baptist minister. He can be so different. There's not yet an Obama voice.”
“Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.”
Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.”
“Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects.”
“Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.”
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
“Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)”
“Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!”
“Sometimes, Chelsea, I wonder, how you get by from day to day. It's a good thing you're so voluptuous.”