S Quotes
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“Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.”
“Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.”
“Some members of public are killing police officers that were probably corrupt.”
“Some members, like Britain and France, are ready, willing and able to take action in Libya or Mali. Others are uncomfortable with the use of military force. Let's welcome that diversity, instead of trying to snuff it out.”
“Some memories are best absorbed through your eyes in real time, even if you have no record of it later. Because then you can access that memory and how you felt in that moment. If you're looking at your cellphone screen, taking a video of something that is otherwise unforgettable, watching it later will not recover the emotion you would have had, had you witnessed it directly.”
“Some memories are burned with fire on the walls of my heart, making it impossible to erase them without losing the heart itself.”
“Some memories are far too painful to resuscitate, and so they remain floating somewhere in the depths of our hearts.”
Source: Forgotten Sisters
“Some memories are like revenants; you keep on burying them in the deepest recesses of your soul, but they always find a way to claw back to the surface. They keep haunting you in the quiet moments, whispering echoes of a past you wish you could forget.”
“Some memories are painful, yet we smile..”
“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
“Some memories are special. Whenever you remember them, you feel like they have come alive.”
“Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heart-warming!”
“Some memories battened onto a person’s mind like evil leeches, and certain words—stupid and ridiculous, for example—could bring them instantly back to squirming, feverish life.”
Source: Gerald's Game
“Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.”
“Some memories don’t fade—they just return in different bodies.”
Source: Even the Sky Remembers: The Weight We Choose to Keep
“Some memories just stay. They just refuse to give up on staying. Maybe it is good that they stay. It helps us stay rooted. It helps us to know who we really are.”
Source: My Dream Man
“Some memories never fade, no matter how hard we try. But you know, maybe they are not even meant to. Because they are just reminders of what we went through, what we learnt, and what we should never go back to.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.”
Source: Human Acts
“Some memories never leave you in peace.”
Source: Frozen Secrets
“Some memories never leave your deeps... remaining as salt in the sea of your soul...”
“Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.”
“Some memories should be dead as they are like living corpse in mortal's bed”
“Some memories spreads through us,
like ink spilling into still water.
Every thought we hold
is tinged with its depth.”
“Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.”
“Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, whoso seeks to attain to conformity with it, will find it enlarge itself, and remove from him. He that follows it will improve his own moral character, but the ideal will remain always above him and before him, prompting him to new exertions.”
Source: The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism
“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”
Source: The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Some men accept their fate, others write their fate. The difference between them is the courage to change.”
“Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.”
“Some men and women are inquisitive about everything, they are always asking, if they see any one with anything they ask what is that thing, what is it you are carrying, what are you going to be doing with that thing, why have you that thing, where did you get that thing, how long will you have that thing, there are very many men and women who want to know about anything about everything.”
Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…
“Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.”
“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.”
“Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.”
“Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.”
“Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.”
Source: Love at Second Sight
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”
“Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Some men are born posthumously.”
Source: The Antichrist
“Some men are born targets and others are born weapons.”
Source: We Fight Monsters: Wisdom and inspiration that speak to the warrior's soul
“Some men are born to be good some born to be bad
As for me I only came with just a pen ‘n’ a pad.”
Source: Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper
“Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?”
Source: Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“Some men are bred to be careful, others are born to be sung of.”
Source: Half a Lion
“Some men are brilliant talkers, I've met many like that. But almost none of them know when to be silent. Most of my female friends confuse the tough guys with the silent types. I think that's a movie myth. The worst examples of male aggression I've come across have been intolerably verbal.”
Source: Talking to Ourselves
“Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?”
Source: The Fixer
“Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.”
“Some men are destined for greatness, other men are destined for marriage.”
“Some men are dogs; some dogs are women.”
“Some men are each a ladies’ man. Some women are each a men’s lady.”
“Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.”
Source: East of Eden