Sometimes Quotes

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.

Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others. - Jon Snow

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

The story sometimes writes you into a corner.

Sometimes I just turn on the TV and I'm like, wait a minute, that guy [Donald Trump]? It's incredible that he did all those things and he still won. It's hard to process.

You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.

The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.

I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.

I think all of these things, there are always names floated - Newt Gingrich's name is out there. Sometimes you just want to make the loyalists happy by floating those names.

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it.

The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and a lot of times to my delight.

I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes.

Sometimes I'm frustrated. Rarely surprised. Sometimes I'm happy, you know. But war is not a time of joy.

Sometimes armchair quarterbacks are doing it to enhance their own image. I'm just not comfortable with that idea.

Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.

Fashion is about fun, you know, and I think a lot of people forget that sometimes.

It's nice to be able to let go of the reins sometimes and know that somebody you really trust is gonna pick them up as soon as you do.

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song.

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.