S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
“Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.”
“Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over.
I know how wrong that is.”
Source: Every Day
“Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.”
“Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.”
“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
“Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.”
“Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.”
“Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.”
“Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...”
“Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.”
“Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source.”
Source: The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World
“Some people think sensuality is there to validate sin or make it abound in the world. No, actually sensuality is there to enable us to play in a fluid energetic space of limitless possibilities.”
“Some people think sensuality is there to validate sin or make it abound in the world. No, actually sensuality is there to enable us to play in this fluid energetic space of limitless possibilities.”
“Some people think sugar is the key to desserts," Mario said. "But I am here to tell you that if you want a good dessert, you have to start with a fresh egg.”
Source: The Blue Bistro
“Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.”
“Some people think technology has the answers.”
“Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.”
“Some people think that acting's about being somebody else and I don't. I think this is how I would be given the same circumstances. And I do it for my own enjoyment.”
“Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.”
Source: MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR
“Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.”
“Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic”
“Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative”
“Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.”
“Some people think that being in love or infatuated is a modern invention that appears only in novels. Be that as it may, it nevertheless exists, the invention, the word, and our capacity for such a feeling.”
Source: Los enamoramientos
“Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.”
“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.”
“Some people think that I have “unrealistic expectations” when it comes to relationships and life.
No, I don’t.
My sensuality is what sets my standards.
If people knew how much devotion goes into being in sensual alignment they would refrain from using the expression “You are a perfectionist.” Not that it bothers me when they say it, I just think it’s very shortsighted.
My standards have got nothing to do with perfectionism but everything to do with ALIGNMENT... DEVOTION... SURRENDER... SEEKING GOD.
They also involve breaking boundaries, honing daring, overcoming fear, cultivating divinely-inspired outrageousness and nurturing courage.
Showing up here might seem glamorous (at times), but behind the scenes there’s a lot of mind-body-heart-soul “tuning up” happening.
So, instead of saying “Lebo has unrealistic expectations” or “his standards are too high”, rather say “I wonder how much devotion goes into his private life for him to see life like this.”
“Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.”
“Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.”
“Some people think that if they don’t know their faults, they don’t have any.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.”
“Some people think that in order to lead a morally decent life one may sometimes have to forego the possibility of having a good life oneself. Even if that is true, it does not render morality incredible, but it does raise a question about morality's authority: about what one has most reason to do when one is faced with a conflict of this kind.”
“Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.”
“Some people think that looking busy makes them more productive.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!”
“Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive.”
Source: Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science
“Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.”
Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't
“Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.”
“Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign”
“Some People Think That Only The Wounds That Appear On External Parts Of Body Cause Pain
But they Don't Know That When Heart Gets Hurt That Won't Appear To The Outside World Only The Person Who Suffers The Pain Will Know about It !”
“Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.”
“Some people think that pain amplifies life, that it heightens pleasures that would otherwise seem mundane.”
Source: The Secret
“Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.”
“Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.”
“Some people think that sex doesn't lead to pregnancy"
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“Some people think that something being a different shade makes it imperfect. They even use the term ‘different’ as though it were an ugly word. I choose to see the world differently, and I think there is much beauty to be found in imperfection. And I love that something beautiful can come out of something so ugly.”
Source: Beautiful Ugly
“Some people think that Southern hip-hop doesn't have any depth. They think it's just noise, all about people having a good time in the club. And some of it doesn't have a lot of depth, it's true, but some does. I wanted to work against that stereotype. These are verses by Southern artists who are really wrestling with what it means to be here, young black men who are trying to figure out how to live in the South. So I wanted the epigraphs in my novels to reflect that.”