S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Somewhere in this world, the tides are rising high and washing away the negative tides of curses that bind my life. Somewhere the sun is sprinkling some glitter on the ocean’s surface, and in the same place, a bird’s feather is gently floating in the wind. Those thoughts alone give me faith because I know somewhere in the world what I imagine is happening precisely in that order. Therefore, I know that hope and faith do exist, and the impossible is possible.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo.
The other day I came across one of her ruminations printed in a magazine devoted to the writings of schoolchildren. It said: “If I could do anything, I would go to the middle of our planet, Earth, and seek uranium, rubies, and gold. I'd look for Unspoiled Monsters. Then I'd move to the country. --Florie Rotondo, age 8.”
Florie, honey, I know just what you mean – even if you don’t: how could you, age eight?”
Source: Answered Prayers
“Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.”
“Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death . ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.”
“Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.”
“Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?”
“Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...
“Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.”
“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”
“Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined, I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me. But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.”
“Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Somewhere inside the child, a woman bided her time, waiting to emerge. It impressed her as very clever of God to hide adults inside children.”
Source: The Promise of Jenny Jones
“Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.”
Source: Crusoe's Daughter
“Somewhere inside you is the free person I'm talking about. Locate her and let her do some good in the world.”
Source: Home
“Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.”
“Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.”
Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession
“Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.”
“Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.”
Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
“Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.”
“Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”
Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
“Somewhere on this planet is your best friend. Find that person.”
“Somewhere or somewhen, someone will say something about life "going back to normal," and it will be the craziest thing that has ever been uttered in the history of the world, but people who pretend to be sane will treat it like a rational statement, and maybe . . .
. . . maybe, if we are not careful we will believe the lie. No, life has changed, and no one else gets to decide what or when is "normal.”
Source: The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future
“Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.”
“Somewhere out there are people who still know her poems, who've hidden scraps of them away in the folds of their minds before setting match to the papers of their hands. He will find them. He will ask them what they remember. He will piece together their recollections, fragmentary and incomplete though they may be, mapping the holes of one against the solid patches of another. And in this way, piece by piece, he will set her back down on paper again.”
Source: Our Missing Hearts
“Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.”
“Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others - a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill.”
“Somewhere out there, the perfect man you deserve is probably searching for you."
Phoebe laughed against his mouth. "Let's hurry, then- we can be married before he gets here.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“Somewhere out there the world must have an end.”
Source: Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems
“Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 1-6
“Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.”
“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
“Somewhere, she is a cell remembering itself
suddenly, late at night.”
Source: Soft Science
“Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you.”
“Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.”
“Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.”
Source: A Year of Living Prayerfully
“Somewhere, somehow, maybe I can find someone who can make my heart beat again.. For everyday that I pine for your love, and for every single time you reject me, I start to die deep inside.. That throbbing pain has slowly turned into numbing emptiness..”
“Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.”
“Somewhere, someone is search for the pieces of you that mold well with theirs.”
“Somewhere, someone is searching for you in every person they encounter. You will mean something to yourself one day. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not the next day, but you will fill that ache in your soul, eventually, Brantley Thornton. I swear it to you. I promise you.”
Source: Counting Stars
“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have”
“Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?”
Source: A Wave: Poems
“Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.”
Source: A Wave: Poems
“Somewhere, someone knows the words to the songs you sing.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply
“Somewhere, somewhen
I'll learn how to cry
The yearning will halt
Then teach me how to fly”
“Somewhere the glamour has gone because of the industrialization of this whole process. I wish it [filming] felt as magical and glamorous as people want it to be, but it feels like a routine people are going through.”
“Somewhere the hurting must stop.”
“Somewhere, the imaginary little shoulder angel and devil were having a conversation on their respective sides, the angel offering a gentle warning that this might not be a good idea, given all the drama, the complications. But the little devil, with its pudgy belly and pointy ears, was so comical that Holly almost laughed when he rolled his eyes at the angel and whispered, "Oh, whatever".”
Source: The Love Goddess' Cooking School
“Somewhere, the radio was playing—WCRB again, soft classical. I didn’t register it at first. I was too busy putting my keys down, toeing off my shoes, breathing into the hush. But then the melody changed.
Piano. Slow. Familiar.
It was Adagio cantabile.
Not Joel’s version, with its doo-wop backbone and lovesick harmonies.
Beethoven’s.
The real thing.”
Source: Comings and Goings - The Art of Being Seen : A Jim Garraty Story