S Quotes
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“Some people sing and dance. I do the opposite of that, and I think the only person who could truly appreciate my art is Helen Keller.”
Source: A Memoir of Memories and Memes
“Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.”
“Some people slammed their doors, others didn't,” he told me in his acquired, patient tone. “I had to deal with a lot of rejection in a way I never had before. Some days, I ate very little and walked slowly. It was a discipline I needed away from a world where I could have everything.”
Source: Relish In the Tread
“Some people sleep until morning. Others know they have to bring the morning.”
“Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.”
Source: The Vacationers
“Some people smoked when they were upset, some did yoga, or drank, or paced, or picked fights, or counted to one hundred. Georgia cooked.
As a small girl growing up in Massachusetts, she'd spent most of her time in her grandmother's kitchen, watching wide-eyed as Grammy kneaded the dough for her famous pumpernickel bread, sliced up parsnips and turnips for her world-class pot roast, or, if she was feeling exotic, butterflied shrimp for her delicious Thai basil seafood. A big-boned woman of solid peasant stock, as she herself used to say, Grammy moved around the cramped kitchen with grace and efficiency, her curly gray hair twisted into a low bun. Humming pop songs from the forties, her cheeks a pleasing pink, she turned out dish after fabulous dish from the cranky Tappan stove she refused to replace. Those times with Grammy were the happiest Georgia could remember. It had been almost a year since she died, and not a day passed that Georgia didn't miss her.
She pulled out half a dozen eggs, sliced supermarket Swiss and some bacon from the double-width Sub-Zero. A quick scan of the spice rack yielded a lifetime supply of Old Bay seasoning, three different kinds of peppercorns, and 'sel de mer' from France's Brittany coast. People's pantries were as perplexing as their lives.”
Source: Georgia's Kitchen
“Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after.”
Source: Swimming in the Dark
“Some People
Some people flee some other people.
In some country under a sun
and some clouds.
They abandon something close to all they’ve got,
sown fields, some chickens, dogs,
mirrors in which fire now preens.
Their shoulders bear pitchers and bundles.
The emptier they get, the heavier they grow.
What happens quietly: someone’s dropping from exhaustion.
What happens loudly: someone’s bread is ripped away,
someone tries to shake a limp child back to life.
Always another wrong road ahead of them,
always another wrong bridge
across an oddly reddish river.
Around them, some gunshots, now nearer, now farther away,
above them a plane seems to circle.
Some invisibility would come in handy,
some grayish stoniness,
or, better yet, some nonexistence
for a shorter or a longer while.
Something else will happen, only where and what.
Someone will come at them, only when and who,
in how many shapes, with what intentions.
If he has a choice,
maybe he won’t be the enemy
and will leave them to some sort of life.”
Source: Monologue of a Dog: New Poems
“Some people sometimes kiss and tell; some sometimes tell without having kissed.”
“Some people sought comfort from smoking, after discovering that their loved one had just been killed by the cancer.”
“Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.”
“Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.”
“Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.”
“Some people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong goals. They work with extreme focus - but it doesn't take them where they want to go.”
Source: How To Focus - Stop Procrastinating, Improve Your Concentration & Get Things Done - Easily!
“Some people spend all their lives searching for their soul mates.”
“Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.”
Source: Walking on Water: A Novel
“Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happening [now] . . . Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.”
“Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.”
Source: Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)
“Some people spend their days talking about how cool they areothers spend them doing things that make them cool”
“Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their archaic holy books, they sometimes oppress those who disagree with them, and they always do what they do in the name of an unknowable deity... but sometimes, they wake up. Occasionally, they realize that all religions are man-made and that none of them are ‘right.’ And when they do, they can live happy and fulfilling lives without dogma and without anticipating or fearing an afterlife.”
“Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...”
“Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.”
“Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.”
Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.”
“Some people spend their whole lives looking for a four-leaf clover. Some just gaze.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.”
Source: Emotionally Weird: A Novel
“Some people spend years in counselling trying to cope with being fucked up. I just move on. The fucked-upness always goes. The conventional wisdom is that you're running away, you should learn to cope with being fucked-up. I don't hold with that. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.”
Source: Glue
“Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect--not realizing that they have signalled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.”
Source: Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
“Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect-not realizing that they have signaled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.”
Source: Only Time Will Tell
“Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.”
“Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business.”
“Some people start their day surrendering saying "Woe is me, go ahead, bring me the pain in my life. I'm done", while other start it saying, "Whoa... It's me! I dare you to try. I'm ready.”
“Some people start to live when they die”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.”
“Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.”
“Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.”
“Some people stay in our heart forever!”
“Some people stay in our hearts forever!”
“Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.”
“Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.”
“Some people stay permanently in my heart!”
“Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.”
Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia
“Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.”
Source: The Shades of Magic Series: (A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light)
“Some people step into their backyards to shoot quail; others spend thousands of dollars annually for the same privilege. But they all share one defect of character: All quail shooters are abject liars. I know, for | have been lying steadily about quail and bird dogs since I was 8, and got physically sick from excitement when I killed my first one.
The quail shooter’s mind works roughly like this:
They aren't making the same kind of cartridges anymore, because when you point them at the bird the bird won’ drop. Obviously something is wrong with the powder... The sun was in my eyes... The damn bird flew around a branch just as I shot.
The dogs have lost their sense of smell... . The rabbit hounds ran up all the quail... One of the other hunters was in the way, or I would have killed two... It was getting too dark to shoot with safety.
All the birds got up wild, ahead of the dogs . . . I slipped and fell... I had a headache and my timing was off... When I was going good after the first two coveys, we couldn't find any more for an hour and I cooled off.
The safety on my gun jammed ... The little single dog won't backstand a point any more... The woods were too thick... The birds wouldn't hold to a point.
These are the things you tell yourself. You tell other people that you only used half as many shells as you really used, and then you say that you had to run down a couple of wounded birds and shoot some more.’
- The Brave Quail By Robert Ruark”
Source: The Greatest Quail Hunting Book Ever, Collector’s Edition
“Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.”
“Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.”
“Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.”
“Some people still look for proof of alien or prehuman civilization yet do not realize that they live daily within it.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut