S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.”
“Some people may think I am still young and still a boy but now I feel like I am a man.”
“Some people may worsen your anxiety. That is why you ought to put your trust in God Almighty. Let Him lead you to victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Some people maybe try to justify their laziness. You take out what you put in and the more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus, and to listening to his word and have him guide my hand I feel the pressure's off me.”
“Some people measure the worth of good actions only by their natural qualities or their difficulty, giving the preference solely to what is conspicuous or brilliant. Such men forget that Christian virtues, which are God's inspiration, should be viewed from the side of grace, not that of nature. The dignity or difficulty of a good action certainly affects what is technically called its accidental worth, but all essential worth must come from love alone.”
“Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.”
“Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy.”
“Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.”
“Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!”
“Some people meet me sometimes and they sit down and talk to me for a while and ask me my name and say, 'Oh, you're the guy'.”
“Some people meet people in the grocery store, but I get my tomatoes and I'm out.”
“some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”
“Some people meet you for a reason, while others meet you to stay there in your life.”
“Some people might find my lifestyle concerning. What kind of idiot dedicates herself to finding people she's never met in cities she's never frequented at the behest of complete strangers she'll never see again?”
Source: Kiss Her Goodbye
“Some people might leave you,' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.”
Source: Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
“Some people might make you feel that you don't belong in certain spaces. The reality is that it's possible that they're the ones who don't belong there. So, when there's discomfort, don't be in a hurry to leave .”
“Some people might only recognize me half naked in my bikini and bra!”
“Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.”
“Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.”
“Some people might say this is important.
No. It's just personal. Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is.”
Source: Maskerade
“Some people might say, "Why bother living? It has no purpose." Unfortunately, dying or death might prove in ways to be even more pointless. At least one living always has a purpose as a form of unified existence and being -- there is almost zero overall purpose in non-existence, other than maybe the awareness of such indistinctly.”
“Some people might think Rain is the superstar or super successful, but I am someone who always sets new goals and tries to accomplish them.”
“Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.”
“Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.”
“Some people might view “King Hochschild’s Hoax,” as we might call it, as an empowering fable for modern Africans at the expense of the white man. But its debilitating effects on Africa, and on the Congo in particular, make the opposite more nearly the case. It is a callous and negligent chicotte (hippo whip) lash on the backs of all black Africans, narcissistic guilt porn for white liberals at the expense of the African. The Congolese lawyer Marcel Yabili calls it “the greatest falsification in modern history,” a compliment of sorts, I suppose.”
Source: King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
“Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. Tact is an active quality t hat is not exercised by merely making a dash for cover. Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.”
“Some people mistakenly refer to software defects as bugs. When called bugs, they seem like pesky things that should be swatted or even ignored. This trivializes a critical problem and fosters a wrong attitude. Thus, when an engineer says there are only a few bugs left in a program, the reaction is one of relief. *Supposed, however, that we called them time bombs instead of bugs.* Would you feel the same sense of relief if a programmer told you that he had thoroughly tested a program and there were only a few time bombs left in it? Just using a different term changes your attitude entirely.”
Source: Reflections on Management: How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself
“Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.”
“Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.”
Source: Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel
“Some people more than others, they take things very seriously.”
“Some people move our souls to dance.”
“Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.”
Source: CVJ: nicknames of maitre D's & other excerpts from life
“Some people my accuse me of doing too much. Sometimes I agree with them. But then there is a part of me that wants to follow God --- wholeheartedly, completely and full throttle, wherever He may lead. I don't want to look back fifty years from now and think, What if I had trusted God? Where would I be?”
“Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.”
“Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.”
“Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.”
“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“Some people need a super hero to save them, but I am my own super hero. All I need is myself, my strengths and the fiery passions in my heart to overcome the obstacles in my life.”
“Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.”
“Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.”
“Some people need God and some people need science.”
“Some people need God, others don't feel the need for it, for whatever reason. But the fact of the matter is, even those who do not believe in God, occasionally end up talking to some sort of fictitious figure, such as a loved one who has passed away. And what's wrong with that?
Personal fiction is a psychological necessity of the individual – hence, a right - why can't we simply accept it as such! Why do we have to diss another person for not believing in the same kind of fiction that we believe in! It is time we become an aid to each other's light, not an impediment.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Some people need Hell. If you’re the type of guy who sees a hooker in an alleyway and instinctively thinks, “Hey, now there’s something I could rape and kill without any consequences,” then the concept of Hell might really keep you out of trouble.”
Source: The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
“Some people need sequins, others don't.”
“Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.”
“Some people need to manifest a well-functioning, beneficial relationship. Some need to develop their aloneness and focus on their spiritual progress. All situations have their joys and challenges, and all can be used for our growth.”
Source: Sonder: Spiritual Fiction
“Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.”
“Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it's biological, I think we have to love and understand them.”
“Some people never changed, could always be depended on to be exactly the way they should.”
Source: Vitro