Sometimes Quotes

Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Sometimes, being happy or being nice can leave me feeling a bit hung out to dry. Especially if everyone else who I'm around is way more guarded.

I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?

Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.

Sometimes you have to take a chance and just go with it

There were ten dancers - four guys and six girls - including me, on the Beyonce tour. Sometimes we would go out with her, to events. She was really normal - just like everybody else!

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.

As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

Sometimes I manage to get conditions alleviated, often not.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.

It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.

Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

People sometimes ask me, "You're still in a primary - why are you criticizing [Donald] Trump?" It's because I don't want what he's saying to stand unanswered.