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“I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.”

Thinking Sometimes Lying Sleep Love Is Serious Quiet Invention Deep Down Racks

Book:Septimus

Source: Septimus

“Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Sometimes Matter Done Helping Might Lasts Heaven Voice Can Do Worst Angel Pity Command Settling Providence Coincidence Guardian Guardian Angel Perplexity

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

Sometimes Light Moral Materials Cures Disorder Remedy Reformers

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.”

Men Wells Doe Sometimes Women Pay Attention Succeed Pay Attention

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

May Sometimes Light Sound Moral Materials Roots Wit Cures Maturity Disorder Remedy Trunks Few Words Reformers Antithesis Caleb

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.”

Thinking Looks May Children Has Beens Sometimes Film Faces Process Changed Television Involved Offers Fellows Series Checks Novelists Cash Invited Naive Truck Dump Stunned Premieres

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.”

May Sometimes Causes Majority Injustice Pursuit Minorities

Book:The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939

Source: The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939

“Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the harmony will be altered. He pretends sometimes to trip; but it is only to make you think him in danger of a fall, when he is most secure.”

Thinking Sometimes Fall Danger Changed Harmony Secure Altered Make You Think

Book:The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy

Source: The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy

“It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.”

“The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.”

Way Sometimes Stones

Book:How to Breathe Underwater

Source: How to Breathe Underwater

“Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.”

World Two Sometimes Hands Faces Walks Flower Shadow Tricks Sickness Weed Ugliness Hand In Hand Tiptoes Shadow Of Death Health And Life

Author:Tiffany Baker

“I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.”

People Thinking Want Sometimes Reason Certain Stars Destiny

Author:Morgan Parker

“Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.”

Sometimes Song Sentiments

Author:Tania James

“My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.”

Knows Mean Sometimes Able Past Strong Goes On Weak Ghost Daddy Graveyard Racket

Author:Susan Crandall

“I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.”

World Want Trying Self Sometimes Done Wanted Earth Night Certain Broken Rain Mood Self Absorbed Weasels Broken World Sad Movie

Book:Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.”

Sometimes Break Habit Hardest Doing Nothing

Book:Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:

Source: Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:

“Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.”

Looks Sometimes Shows Artist Magic

Author:Amy Neftzger

“Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty. No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean they’ll treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean they’ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.”

People Mean Sometimes Matter Values Turns Taught Trust Treats Good Loyalty Footballer People In Your Life Control Someone

Author:Trent Shelton

“Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.”

People Sometimes Happens Hate Turns Love Is Type Areas Intense Borders Over You Gray Time Love Gray Area Sometimes Love

Author:Julie Murphy

“My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only will they see that it's not that hard, but sometimes I think women just want to be the very thing they think they want to sleep with. Because if you're bright enough--no offense, Tawny Kitaen--sleeping with a musician probably won't be enough for you to feel good about yourself. Even if he writes you a song for your birthday. Don't you know that a musician who writes a song for you is like a baker you're dating making you a cake? Aim higher.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Feels Writing Sometimes Hard Enough Play Song Sleep Advice Higher Musician Dating Aim Instruments Feel Good About Yourself Cake Offense Bakers Aim High Want To Sleep

Author:Julie Klausner

“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”

“Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.”

Sometimes Running Environment Argument Forgotten Wave Expected Silly Tension Quarrels Tsunami New Environment

Author:Craig Stone

“Smile sometimes: it won’t add years to your life, but it will add life to your years.”

Years Sometimes Add

Author:Craig Stone

“Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.”

Sometimes Happens Greater Down The Road

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.”

Believe Sometimes Atheism Devil Positive Atheism Temptation Believe In God

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?”

People Ifs Looks Kind Important Sometimes Religious Compassion Virtue Keys Stubborn

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.”

People Feels Mean Sometimes Done Action Wish Natural Moral Principles Virtue Trouble Havens Prove Shame Like Me Wicked Frank Virtuous Remorse Particles Humbug Owning It

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.”

Men Sometimes Ruined Vocation

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.”

Source: The Papers of James Madison

“A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.”

Sometimes Cost Add Credit Cards Credit Card Cost Of Living

Book:Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations

Source: Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations

“Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.”

Men Writing May Sometimes Clear Degrees Endure Forgotten Fortunate Alchemy

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.”

May Sometimes Next Sound Half Wind Flower Hair Sitting Stores Thee Spares Hook Careless Reap Poppies

Author:John Keats

“Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.”

Littles Sometimes Shows Black Space Lows Wings Golden Branches Yellow Freak Hung Feathers Wanton Fluttering Pausing Goldfinches

Book:Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.”

Sometimes Distance Absence

Book:Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: the familiar letters of James Howell

Source: Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: the familiar letters of James Howell

“A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition, and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.”

Ideas Different Sometimes Used Expression Phrases Lazy Formulas Repetition Contradictory Felicity

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.”

Trying Sometimes Asks Opportunity Stuff Prayer Worship Supplication

Author:Francis Collins

“I feel like I get really stressed out sometimes. I just want someone to tell me, "Relax, it's all going to be okay." I think that's all we really need.”

Thinking Want Needs Feels Sometimes Okay Relax Get Real Stressed Stressed Out

Author:Shiri Appleby

“My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."”

Men Giving Should Writing Sometimes Voice Four Terrible Giving Up Cat Critical Sentences Coffee Awake Pet Dragons Eggs Breakfast Clicks Best Times Disclosure

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.”

Important Sometimes Might Fiction Conversation Crosses Literal Anthology Contamination Pollination

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.”

World Mean Sometimes Senses Mysterious Limitation Exploring

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I firmly believe that we're all good people, but sometimes it's hard to understand how to do good.”

People Believe Sometimes Hard Good People

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.”

Feels Sometimes Feelings Yeah Make Sense

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side, sometimes they can be as strong as each other. Love and hatred are close.”

Wells Looks Sometimes Song Strong Sides Dark Hatred Lays Dark Side Bright Side Hatred And Love

Author:Jim Capaldi

“If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.”

People Ifs Want Writing Mind Different Sometimes Helping Actors Voice Different Voices

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.”

Sometimes Guy Situation Funny Guy

Author:John Kapelos

“Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the words that motivates the words, that conveys real communication and meaning.”

Knows Real Sometimes Process Behinds Communication Directors Nuts Thought Process

Author:John Kapelos

“I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.”

Thinking Sometimes Hollywood Good Things Begets

Author:John Kapelos

“Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do.”

Want Sometimes Order Bits Figures Wander

Author:Larry David

“America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.”

People Knows Sometimes America Ambition Competition Good Things Bad Things Competing Unhealthy

Author:Chaka Khan

“Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.”

Sometimes Hard Reason Fun Good Day

Author:Emile Hirsch

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