S Quotes
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“Some lies aren’t meant to hide the truth — they’re meant to protect the heart that speaks them.”
Source: Lies We Loved
“Some, like [Former Australian Greens Leader] Bob Brown, favour a greater overhaul of the political system, restricting sitting days to normal business hours, and compressing sitting weeks iinto longer blocks of time, allowing parliamentarians and their staff longer uninterrupted periods back in the electorate and at home with family. 'I think it would be better to have four or five full days a week and hav ethe evenings off - all of them,' Brown says. 'If peopel want to, they can have their party-room meetings and inevitable discussions after, but earlier, and have more sleep time at night.'”
Source: On Sleep
“Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.”
“Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you”
Source: Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings
“Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.”
“Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential.”
“Some like to start from the inside and then go to the outside. I'm the other type of actor. First, I have to know how my character looks, how he walks, how he drives, how he eats.”
“Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.”
“Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.”
“Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.”
“Some lines were never meant to be crossed, however good your cause may seem.”
“Some lines you just don't cross. Not in my business."
"Your business?" Georgia rolled her eyes. "You mean the private detective business? I wasn't aware you guys had such ironclad rules about making out with clients." She ignored the choking sound he made. "Seriously, have you even seen The Maltese Falcon?"
Darius' face heated. "This isn't some movie, Ms. Clare. You're not Mary Astor, and I'm sure as hell no Humphrey Bogart. Here in the real world, there are rules.”
Source: Season Of The Witch
“Some linguists say that the word Allah is based on the word waliha, which translates to a love that is so passionate and ecstatic that it completely transcends the senses. This implies that to know God we have to surrender our minds, everything we are, and everything we know in exchange for love, because self-surrender to divine love is the only path to God.”
Source: Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
“Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.”
“Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the characters I'm writing about, something happens that they move from wherever they are in the beginning to knowledge or wisdom, they know something they never would have acknowledged or realized if it hadn't been for my book - that for me is what literature does.”
“Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.”
Source: Diary: A Novel
“Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!”
“Some live a life of service. While others live to enjoy the service of others.”
“Some live by the whims of chance, and they take the highs and lows that chance deals them in stride. Other's plot their lives in steady ways and live in the consistency they make. Neither is wrong. Neither is better. They are just two different ways of living. - The Malwatch”
“Some live for their own joy and pleasure.
Some live to ease the burdens of others.
Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only, that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their oppressors will be justified."
~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher”
Source: Secrets of a Noble Keykeeper
“Some live in a state of passionate indecision.”
“Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!”
“Some live life passionately, some live just to be alive, while some are already dead and are waiting for it to be official. Live your life to the fullest so your legacy won't ever die.”
“Some live their lives for an award, but we live our lives to reward, we serve.”
“Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.”
“Some lives are not ours to hold on to; God makes His choices without us.”
Source: The Four Winds
“Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.”
“Some lives possess a trajectory. They’re a gunshot, aimed at birth.”
Source: Day Boy
“Some lives were saved by accident; some, by an accident.”
“Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.”
Source: Life Expectancy
“Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.”
“Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed — or put itch powder in pressure suit.”
Source: Moon Is Harsh Mistres
“Some long for acceptance while others fear for anything ordinary.”
“Some look at your strength and see an opportunity and some look at your weaknesses and see an opportunity .”
“Some look towards the future, others, the future creeps up on them when they sit focused on the present.”
Source: A Brief Introduction to Unravelling Complexity
“Some loose ends need to be tied up
but still their threads are part of the tapestry.
Some loose ends need to be re-woven.
Some need to be pulled and
allowed to lead us where they may ...”
“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted”
“Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose”
“Some losses are severe enough to obliterate albeit temporarily the name, address of your bank and account details from your medulla-oblongata.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Some losses have no funeral. Some grief has no name. But the love remains, and that is worth speaking.”
“Some losses never return what they take. They open a space inside you, a hollow shaped exactly like the person, the moment, or the dream that disappeared.”
Source: Beacon of the Dark Night: Shining Hope Through the Shadows
“Some losses run too deep to ever fully heal.”
Source: Lesser Evil
“Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness.”
Source: Magician: Apprentice
“Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.”
“Some love sets off a spark... Others ignite the flame.”
“Some love stories don’t end because they failed, but because they taught us how to leave with our hearts still open.”
“Some love stories has no end, no path or no name, but they are 'love stories' too.”
“Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.”
“Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.”
Source: Delicious