S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes, it's all about the casting.”
“Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.”
“Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.”
“Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.”
“Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons”
Source: The Orenda: A novel
“Sometimes, it`s easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It`s like there`s less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn`t know you.”
Source: No Time for Goodbye
“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.”
“Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can't always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it's 40 degrees outside.”
“Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.”
Source: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
“Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.”
“Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.”
Source: For One More Day
“Sometimes, kismet happens.”
“Sometimes, knowing when to let go is just as important as knowing when to hold tight.”
Source: Wide Awake
“Sometimes, language is the sound of longing”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“Sometimes, less is more.”
“Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.”
“Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears and speaks a few words of wisdom, solving a previously insoluble problem, or something in a recent dream transpires in reality. Suddenly the existence of God seems confirmed.”
“Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.”
“Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)”
Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
“Sometimes, like we all do, I look at myself in the mirror. Sometimes I cry. Like a really hard cry like you just watch yourself cry but then you're done and you're just glowing and you're staring at yourself.”
“Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpaper. It's very surreal. You're back in your room, and it's dead quiet and really weird.”
“Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.”
Source: This Craft of Verse
“Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do 'look up' at Sophiatown, and in the evening light, across the blue-grey haze of smoke from braziers and chimneys, against a saffron sky, you see close-packed, red-roofed little houses. ...And above it all you see the Church of Christ the King, its tower visible north, south, east, and west.”
“Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.”
“Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.”
“Sometimes, love was not enough.”
“Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential.”
“Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.”
“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!”
“Sometimes, Manny is taking a nap, and you woke up the baby. There's not a better retaliation, something like that. Manny's one of the best at that.”
“Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.”
“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.”
Source: Darkfever: Fever Series
“Sometimes, music is like poop. It just has to come out.”
“Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.”
Source: The School of Essential Ingredients
“Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have some cake! You need to create a world into which we can enter, a world where we can see this.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life.”
“Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.”
“Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.”
“Sometimes, of course, the artist does give up, saying, in effect, "I've done enough". Prospero declares that the revels are ended, and breaks his staff - his author retires to Stratford. At the very end, Mann did something similar. Interestingly, in both instances, death came quite quickly after that.”
“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”
Source: Here Lies Arthur
“Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.”
“Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.”
Source: Wild Seed
“Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.”
“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
“Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.”
“Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.”
“Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.”
“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”