S Quotes
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“Some loves are beautiful on their own but ruin each other in the same breath.
How coffee and strawberries aren’t meant to belong to the same spoon.
Just meant to make you feel alive in opposite corners of the same morning.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.”
“Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, & your self-respect & independence. After a while you start throwing people out - friends, everyone you know. & it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, & you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people. I think that's why I'm sick of love. - Karla”
“Some loves are like the tide. Like water washing over you then slipping through your fingers. They come and they go. They come and they go.”
“Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.”
“Some loves don’t ask permission. They claim, they consume, and they stay.”
“Some loves don’t heal you. They consume you until there’s nothing left but the echo of what you were.”
Source: The Fallen Prince: Book Two of the Crystal Realms Saga
“Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.”
Source: Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst
“Some loves save you.
Some loves ruin you.
Some are worth risking everything.”
“Some loves teach you how to hold on. The hardest ones teach you how to finally let go.”
Source: Legacy of Avoidance: A Journal For Those Learning To Stay When Love Feels Unsafe
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.”
“Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I leave to others to decide the truth of. I'd only point out, though, that if true these accusations must also have been true when I was still on the correct side, and that such shocking deformities didn't seem to count for so much then. Arguing with the Stalinist mentality for more than three decades now, and doing a bit of soapboxing and street-corner speaking on and off, has meant that it takes quite a lot to hurt my tender feelings, or bruise my milk-white skin.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.”
Source: The Shock of the Fall
“Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own.”
Source: The Demon's Lexicon
“Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.”
Source: Living Faith
“Some major problems can be solved by our political process and our leaders. Others can be solved only when there is popular demand and insistence and politicians feel at risk of unemployment if they ignore the groundswell.”
“Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.”
“Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Some make bombs for domination,
Some make bombs for survival.
Either way someone pushes a button,
Innocents wind up dead as collateral.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Some make cars,
Some make rockets.
I am reformer,
not entrepreneur.
I make Gods and Prophets.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.”
“Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.”
“Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.”
“Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.”
“Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.”
“Some makeup you put on and feel like you're getting pimples by the hour.”
“Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.”
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse
“Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change.”
“Some males are intelligent, some are dumb. Some females are intelligent, some are dumb. We're all human beings, no one is superior.”
“Some man's dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!”
“Some managers are uncomfortable expressing emotion about their dreams, but that’s what motivates others.”
Source: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
“Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it's the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others.”
“Some managers hire people they're excited to work with. I prefer to hire people I'm excited to dominate.”
Source: HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!
“Some managers ignore the long-lasting nature of skills acquired through training. They give employees no alternative skills which can be used beyond their current jobs. Unless, if those employees get selected for new positions.”
“Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.”
“Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“Some Marauders do do that, but not the smart ones.” Ivy giggles. “I said, doo-doo.”
Source: Proud Pada
“Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle”
“Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Some marriages aren't really that great. Some loves aren't all-encompassing. Sometimes you separate because you weren't that good together to begin with. Sometimes divorce isn't an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it's just two people waking up out of a fog.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.”
“Some marriages end before the wife has had enough time to fall in love with the husband.”
“Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex ... without the guilt.”
“Some martial arts, or combat sports at least, offer a career path that includes fame and riches. An Olympic gold medal, perhaps. But that is not true of ours. I train martial arts because they can offer moments of utter transcendence. The ineffable made manifest. This is traditionally described as “beyond words” or “indescribable” but, as a martial artist and a writer, that would feel like a cop-out. I will take this feeling and wrestle it down onto the page, or at least give it my best shot. It is a moment when every atom in your body is exactly where it should be. Every step you have taken on life’s path makes sense, and is part of a coherent story. The pain of every mistake is made worthwhile by the lessons contained within. There is a feeling of physical power without limit; strength without stiffness; flow without randomness; precision without pedantry; focus without blinkers; breadth and depth; massive destructive capability, but utter gentleness; self-awareness without self-consciousness; force without fury; your body alive as it has never been, all fear and pain burned away in a moment of absolute clarity; certainty without dogma; and an overpowering love, even for your enemies, that enables you to destroy them without degrading them. For a religious person it is the breath of God within you; for an atheist it is a moment of attaining perfection as a human being.”
Source: Swordfighting, for Writers, Game Designers and Martial Artists
“Some mass murderers, so deeply depressed, become schizophrenic or psychotic. Others suffer with severe anxiety and personality disorders. These are not rational people at the time of the murders even when their behaviors are calculated and decisive. Many of them are not legally insane but suffer from severe psychological dysfunctioning as a result of both chronic and acute stress.”
Source: Serial Murderers and their Victims
“Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.”
“Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA