S Quotes
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“Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.”
“Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.”
“Some people are anchored to this world by their feet, others by their fears.”
Source: Blythe
“Some people are angels sent to you by God at your weakest moments.”
“Some people are antagonized by the truth.”
“Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.”
“Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.”
“Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.”
“Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.”
“Some people are averse to competition and allow the words 'co-operation' and 'humanism' to drool from their mouths, apparently meaning thereby a large blob of protoplasmic homogeneity that lacks all individuality. It is not individuals and their liberty that concerns them, but rather some sort of well greased squirming mass that would seem to be analogous to the brains from which such amorphous 'ideas' emanate.”
“Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.”
“Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.”
Source: Celestial Navigation
“Some people are bastions of hope, special, pure, clear, light among the rest and we need a world full of them...”
“Some people are better at hiding their differences, or society is better at embracing them. But just because society believes something, doesn't mean it's true, or that we don't have the power to change it. Because the thing is, different isn't a bad thing.
I no longer care for society's opinions and have learned that we have the choice on what and whose opinions and views matter to us. (Hint: a culture created for the benefit of abled, typical, heteronormative, Caucasian, upper-class men will never be a culture that benefits me, so why should I allow it to matter to me?) I no longer fear the eyes of others, or feel that someone's judgment is my own personal problem, or is representative of who I am. I've taught myself that my mind, my differences, and my identity are valid, and important, and hold value. I've come to this realisation after years of being taught otherwise.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.”
“Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.”
“Some people are beyond aromatherapeutic help”
Source: The Flatshare
“Some people are beyond help, just accept that.”
“Some people are blessed with a well-paid job, but are cursed with an irresistible urge to give others the impression that they are well paid, through things such as their clothes, car, and place of residence.”
“Some people are blinded by the light, Some people are blinded by the drakness.”
“Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.”
Source: Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
“Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.”
Source: That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story
“Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them.”
“Some people are born fucked up. It’s in their DNA. It’s their goal in life to fuck up everyone else along with them. You know what they say. Misery by any other name is still a bitch.”
Source: Dante's Revenge
“Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.”
“Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.”
“Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them”
“Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love.”
Source: Today's the Day!
“Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.”
“Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
“Some people are born on third base.”
“Some people are born to be public property.”
“Some people are born to fit the times.”
“Some people are born to get married, have children and live happily ever after, and others to became philosophers.”
Source: The Republic
“Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.”
“Some people are born to make a Point. And some to make money. No COMPARATIVE analogy exists.”
Source: 21 Day Target and Achievement Planner [Use Only Printed Work Book: LIFE IS SIMPLE HENCE SIMPLE WORKBOOK
“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.”
Source: Bel Canto
“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.”
“Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.”
Source: Life and letters
“Some people are born to survive. No matter what comes their way, no matter how much pain is dealt them, they live." ~Mercy~”
Source: Mercy
“Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.”
“Some people are born under a lucky star, while others have their misfortune telegraphed by the position of the planets. Casiopea Tun, named after a constellation, was born under the most rotten star imaginable in the firmament.”
Source: Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Some people are born very far from home.”
“Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.”
“Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.”
“Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.”
Source: The Awakening
“Some people are born with an ear for music, some people are born with a talent for drawing, some people...have a built-in radar that tells them where a comma needs to go in a sentence.”
Source: Our Chemical Hearts
“Some people are born with odds stacked against them in life. But they never give up on achieving their dreams.”
Source: Why the Silhouette?