S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes, people aren't as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be.”
“Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason why I rant is because I am a voice for many women that cannot speak out to heads of state, UN officials, and those that influence systems of oppression. And so I rant. And I will not stop ranting until my mission of equality of all girls is achieved.”
“Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.”
“Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.”
Source: There's No Place Like Here
“Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.”
Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
“Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.”
“Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.”
Source: Temptation & Spontaneous: Temptation\Spontaneous
“Sometimes, people mistake fire in the belly for too much pepperoni pizza the night before. They make a great speech and people come up to them and tell them, "You could be president." And the next thing you know, they're running, not because they really ought to or have any shot at doing it, but because they have, you know, a handful of people that tell them they are looking at the next president.”
“Sometimes, people say certain things about me that are negative, but that's no problem. I try to take their negative and turn it to a positive. That's why I like to surround myself with positive people.”
“Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.”
“Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.”
“Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.”
“Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing that is larger than us, larger than the things we can point to, remember and claim, escorts us from dark into light.”
“Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.”
“Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.”
Source: Winter's Child
“Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.”
“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”
“Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.”
Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
“Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.”
“Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent man had to be against fascism, period. It is not as simple as apartheid or colonialism or racism or misogyny. It is not simple because the Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country, about the size of New Jersey.”
“Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.”
“Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”
Source: Practical magic
“Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.”
Source: War for the Oaks: A Novel
“Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.”
“Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.”
Source: The Pilot's Wife
“Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.”
Source: We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel
“Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.”
Source: Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment
“Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.”
“Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do better. Otherwise we're perpetuating myths that have for centuries done us no good. Men and women alike. No one is exempt from being called into consciousness.”
“Sometimes, something of someone is liked too much not because it holds too much value or has a true value, but because there are too many bidders and buyers to have the same thing at the resale
value.”
“Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.”
“Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.”
Source: The Reckoners Series
“Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.”
Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed
“Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.”
“Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.”
“Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.”
Source: The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel
“Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.”
“Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.”
“Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.”
“Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful. Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won't learn their lessons or practice their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a wicked heart or a bad conscience.”
“Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.”
“Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.”
“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
“Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.”
Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
“Sometimes, the darkest part of the morning is just before dawn”
“Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.”
“Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.”
“Sometimes, the experiences that tell you what you don't want to do are as important as those that tell you what you do want to do.”
“Sometimes, the girls hug all boys except me, and I just smile, but it hurts.”
“Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.”