S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Some people dream of SUCCESS while other wake up and work hard at it.”
“Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.”
“Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.”
“Some people drink only on two occasions, when they are happy and when they are sad.”
Source: Big Voice Within
“Some people drink soda. I prefer hummingbird fluid. It will make your heart flutter so fast it's like it's hovering in place in your chest, and that's why The Government doesn't want you to know it exists in seven great flavors to choose from (eight, if you count the extra one).”
Source: Me and memes and memories
“Some people drink their own tears to stay alive.”
“Some people drink to forget. Personally, I smoke to remember.”
“Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.”
“Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump”
“Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus.”
Source: The Pairing
“Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses. I decided I wasn't going to open an account. Put it the other way round - there was no reason that I should.”
“Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.”
“Some people eat eggs, I wear them.”
“Some people eat the tuna, some people roll it up into a ball. Also, the sort of disgusting texture and smell, I think, adds something to the experience.”
“Some people eat to quench hunger, and some eat just to satisfy their gluttony.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Some people eat, some people drink, some people smoke. I Pledge.”
“Some people either really like me or some people don't like me, but even if you don't like me right now or you kinda like me right now, this isn't the end for me, I'm going to continue.”
“Some people engage in retail therapy, buying new things to make themselves feel more secure, and others engage in knowledge therapy, amassing new ideas to make themselves feel like they know something. We consume for comfort. We rely on certainty to shield us from the pain of confusion. The truth is staggering, colossal, unfathomable, so we cling to our bite-sized lies. We organize knowledge into bulleted lists and line graphs while the wisdom of the present moment sits patiently at the doors of our perception.”
Source: The Art of Talking to Yourself
“Some people engineer machines, I engineer human evolution.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.”
“Some people enjoy life—others just survive.”
“Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat.”
“Some people enjoy the fact that you have got problems in your life.”
“Some people enjoyed these wild swings. They crested and troughed, thrilled and wallowed, and came out strangely purified. I probably would have to fire Staci for her sensitivity, her excess. After all, she might go on like this her whole life. Or maybe, with all her yawning lows and staggering highs, she'd finally just get worn down. Maybe.”
Source: Daphne: A Novel
“Some people envied Ronan’s money. Adam envied his time. To be as rich as Ronan was to be able to go to school and do nothing else, to have luxurious swathes of time in which to study and write papers and sleep. Adam wouldn’t admit it to anyone, least of all Gansey, but he was tired. He was tired of squeezing homework in between his part-time jobs, of squeezing in sleep, squeezing in the hunt for Glendower. The jobs felt like so much wasted time: In five years, no one would care if he’d worked at a trailer factory. They’d only care if he’d graduated from Aglionby with perfect grades, or if he’d found Glendower, or if he was still alive. And Ronan didn’t have to worry about any of that.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“Some people equate trauma to something big like war, death, extreme acts of violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or natural disasters. While those are all examples of trauma, trauma doesn’t have to be big like that.”
Source: Your Journey To Success: How to Accept the Answers You Discover Along the Way
“Some people even think I wear a wig. Do they think I went into a salon one day and said, Can you please screw this up really bad?”
“Some people even think that I'm still just not right for it [ballet]. And I think it's shocking because they hear those words from critics saying I'm too bulky, I'm too busty. And then they meet me in person and they're like, you look like a ballerina. And I think it's just something maybe that I will never escape from, those people who are narrow-minded. But my mission, my voice, my story, my message, is not for them. And I think it's more important to think of the people that I am influencing and helping to see a broader picture of what beauty is.”
“Some people, even those with great insight are occasionally blind to things in front of their noses.”
“Some people even thought they had visions of the gods if they chugged enough wine. (Again: do not try this at home. You will not see the Greek gods. You may get a close-up view of your toilet as you are throwing up, but you will not see gods.)”
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
“Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.”
“Some people, even when their brand new shoes pinch like Hell because they're tight, wear them just to show off. Many marriages are that way; they're tight and pinch worse than Hell, but those in them make you believe they taste like Heaven.”
“Some people exchange comfort for vulnerability. It's a dangerous transaction.”
“Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.”
“Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten.”
“Some people explore who they think they might be. Then some people explore who they already are and empower it.”
“Some people express abhorrence at eating meat, yet make an exception for fish and other 'seafood' to remain a part of their diet. Fish, it seems to them, 'don't count.' Nor, it turns out, do they count when it comes to compiling the daily toll of animals slaughtered: cows, chickens, pigs and sheep are counted individually – fish – on the other hand, have their lives measured by the tonne. But even by weight, theirs is a colossal number – over 150million tonnes killed for human consumption every year in the first decades of the 21st century.”
Source: Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene
“Some people faces personal struggles because they made sacrifices for the sake of infatuation.”
“Some people faces struggles because they made sacrifices for others.”
“Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.”
Source: Underworld: A Novel
“Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.”
Source: Iced: Fever Series
“Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.”
“Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.”
“some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.”
“Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.”
“Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That's my release.”
“Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.”
Source: Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou
“Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.”
“Some people fear that today we are again in mortal danger of massive volcanic eruptions or colliding asteroids. Hollywood producers make billions out of these anxieties. Yes, a big asteroid will probably hit our planet sometime in the next 100 million years, but it is very unlikely to happen next Tuesday. Instead of fearing asteroids, we should fear ourselves.”
Source: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“Some people fear to consecrate themselves to God for the same reason they fear to write a blank check.”