Sometimes Quotes
18615 quotes by 8182 authors
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To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother…
— Clark Gable
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine…
— George Herbert
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the…
— Octavio Paz
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
— Evan Esar
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that…
— Edward Said
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For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
— Bob Dylan
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that…
— Erica Jong
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the…
— Wallace Stevens
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter…
— Adrienne Rich
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Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out...
— Dave Matthews
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Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes…
— Charles Lindbergh
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My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of…
— Guy Murchie
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There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to…
— Alex James
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For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.
— Richard Bach
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Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.
— Amy Poehler
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Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly.…
— Courteney Cox
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Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives…
— Bertrand Russell
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