S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes, when there's a video montage. I'm thinking, 'That's my life. Oh, my God, I did that.' Yeah, it's amazing.”
“Sometimes, when there's too much traffic clogging up the road you need to take a different route. But following the same path as everyone else can stall your progress in reaching your investment goals too.”
“Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.”
Source: Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water
“Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.”
“Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer”
“Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.”
Source: Icefall
“Sometimes, when we're feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love.”
“Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us. Are you pursuing a shadow career?”
“Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.”
“Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.”
“Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.”
“Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's working, and yes, she's taking care of her kids full time, and yes, she's a mom, but she's also in a great mood all
the time."”
“Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.”
“Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.”
Source: A Gathering Light
“Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he apears.”
Source: Magic Strikes
“Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.”
“Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“Sometimes, when you get a girl pregnant, you blame the condom. His condom broke that night.”
“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.”
“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.”
“Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?”
“Sometimes, when you look back, you can point to a time when your world shifts and heads in another direction. In lace reading this is called the “still point.”
Source: The Lace Reader
“Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves at you, and you wave back... But it's her grandmother.”
“Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.”
Source: Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories
“Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.”
“Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.”
“Sometimes, when you win, you lose.”
“Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.”
“Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.”
“Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.”
“Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.”
“Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path.”
“Sometimes, when you're really depressed, all you want to do is nothing. All you want to do is lean your head on your arm, and stare into space. Sometimes this can go on for hours. If you're unusually depressed, you may have to change arms.”
“Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.”
Source: Inkheart
“Sometimes, when you're this adventurous, you rip the crotch out of your pants.”
“Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.”
“Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.”
“Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.”
Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
“Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.”
“Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.”
“Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.”
“Sometimes, with leaders, the stakes are very high indeed. Churchill, in WWII, for example, could not afford to utter publicly his concerns about England's ability to survive Hitler's onslaught. He thought about them, but the leadership conversation sometimes needs to inspire, not voice doubt.”
“Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.”
Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone
“Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.”
“Sometimes, with two strikes and two outs, I step off the mound. People are yelling, they're yelling really loud. I step off because I want to feel it. You've got all that adrenaline going, you've got that rush. People think I'm thinking about something, but I'm just trying to listen to everyone and feed off it.”
“Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.”
“Sometimes, you are going to give up a bucket, but defense is the key. That's the most important thing.”
“Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks.”
“Sometimes, you can incorporate things that you've experienced in your life and use that. And, other times, you just know what that feeling of hurt, love, anger and depression is, and you do whatever it takes to get there in your mind, and use it to your advantage, whichever way it works best.”
“Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.”