Sometimes famous quotes

In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
-- A. A. Milne

#Earning #Quiet #Sometimes

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
-- A. C. Benson

#Overcoming #Helping #Sometimes

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#Philosophy #Sometimes #Speculation

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
-- A. E. Housman

#Perfect #Understanding #Sometimes

Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Miracle #Sometimes

Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.
-- A.M. Homes

#Sometimes

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
-- Aaron Allston

#Hurt #Firsts #Sometimes

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
-- Aaron Klug

#People #Sometimes #Nobel

We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
-- Aaron Levie

#Goal #Sometimes #Great Company

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
-- Aaron Levie

#Jobs #Way #Sometimes

Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.
-- Aaron Neville

#Car #Singing #Sometimes

Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della
-- Abbi Glines

#Want #Sometimes

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Children #Responsibility #Sometimes

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
-- Aberjhani

#Years #Sometimes #Cry

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
-- Abhishek Bachchan

#Culture #Goes On #Sometimes

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.
-- Abigail Johnson

#Baby #Sometimes #Grind

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.
-- Ace Antonio Hall

#Your Smile #Sometimes #Domino Effect

Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.
-- Ace Antonio Hall

#Healing #Helping Others #Sometimes

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.
-- Adam Lambert

#Thinking #Sometimes

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
-- Adam Levine

#Song #Feelings #Sometimes

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear The Stranger. You May Be Right may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
-- Adam Pally

#Song #May #Sometimes

Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.
-- Adam Rayner

#Motivation #Real #Sometimes

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.
-- Adam Sandler

#Two #Gigs #Sometimes

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.
-- Adele

#Song #Sometimes #Wander

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.
-- Aden Young

#Balance #Want #Sometimes

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Sometimes #Live By #Journalist

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
-- Adriana Lima

#Teenager #Jealous #Sometimes

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.
-- Aesop

#Delay #Blame #Sometimes

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.
-- Agnes Obel

#Piano #Littles #Sometimes

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.
-- Agyness Deyn

#Rubbish #Stuff #Sometimes

Sometimes isn’t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Space #Perception #Sometimes

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
-- Aidan Chambers

#Knowing #Sometimes #Difficult

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
-- Aidan Chambers

#Facts #Sometimes #Sometimes In Life

I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses.
-- Aidan Turner

#Acting #Want #Sometimes

Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.
-- Aimee Carter

#Sometimes

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
-- Aimee Liu

#Errors #Interesting #Sometimes

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.
-- Ajahn Brahm

#Love Is #Sometimes

I think that I have sold out sometimes.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Thinking #Sometimes

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?
-- Akhil Sharma

#Done #Sometimes #Wonder

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.
-- Al Gore

#Opportunity #Anticipation #Sometimes

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
-- Al Pacino

#Way #Auditions #Sometimes

sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know
-- Al Pacino

#Angel #Devil #Sometimes

Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
-- Al Yankovic

#Real #Thinking #Sometimes

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
-- Al Yankovic

#Trying #Sometimes #Obvious

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
-- Al-Ghazali

#Soul #Helping #Sometimes

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.
-- Alain Robert

#Nice #Being Nice #Sometimes

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
-- Alan Alda

#Ideas #Sometimes #Shelves

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.
-- Alan Arkin

#People #Want #Sometimes

Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.
-- Alan Cohen

#Sometimes #Reason

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
-- Alan Cumming

#People #Favour #Sometimes

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
-- Alan Cumming

#People #Done #Sometimes

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.
-- Alan Moore

#Quitting #Sometimes #Relapse

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.
-- Alan Price

#Song #Sometimes #Crosses

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
-- Alan Rickman

#London #Sometimes #Forget

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.
-- Alan Rudolph

#Target #Sometimes #Film

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.
-- Alan Shearer

#Cheer #Sometimes

You do a film and you have hopes for it, and you read it, and you see it one way in your head, and you shoot it, and it'll always change from what you started out. Sometimes it turns out better, sometimes it turns out; I don't know, but as movies go I've never experienced seeing and likening what I've read, and I liked what I read.
-- Alan Tudyk

#Way #Sometimes #Film

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no-one can imagine
-- Alan Turing

#People #Sometimes #Imagine

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.
-- Alber Elbaz

#Sometimes #Shows #Pragmatic

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
-- Albert Camus

#Sometimes #Humans

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
-- Albert Camus

#Government #Definitions #Sometimes

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
-- Albert Camus

#Sometimes

When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Careers #Sometimes

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
-- Albert Einstein

#Sometimes #Truth Is #Easy

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
-- Albert Pike

#Liberty #Sometimes #Speak

Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
-- Albert Scott Crossfield

#Pilots #Aviation #Sometimes

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Sometimes #Far Away

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
-- Aleksey Igudesman

#Use #Violin #Sometimes

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Sides #Sometimes #Sometimes In Life

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Sometimes #Hmm #Wisest

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.
-- Alex Chilton

#Years #Trying #Sometimes

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Player #Doubt #Sometimes

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
-- Alex Flinn

#Unexpected #Sometimes #Unexpected Things

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.
-- Alex Gaskarth

#Crush #Tragedy #Sometimes

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.
-- Alexa Chung

#Everything Happens For A Reason #Sometimes #Reason

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
-- Alexander Fleming

#Luck #Sometimes

I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.
-- Alexander Masters

#Thinking #Sometimes

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Happiness #Sometimes #Easier

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
-- Alexander Pope

#Vices #Sometimes #Virtue

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Life #Sometimes #Like You

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Littles #Sometimes #Little Things

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Cutting #Trying #Sometimes

Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Winning #Darkness #Sometimes

C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.
-- Alexandra Potter

#Hurt #Upset #Sometimes

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Sometimes #Enough

Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils

#Self Esteem #Unfaithful #Sometimes

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Mind #Sometimes #Feds

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
-- Alexia Fast

#Character #Hard Times #Sometimes

Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it.
-- Alexis Bledel

#Body #Sometimes #Boring

We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.
-- Alfred Bester

#Sometimes #Natural

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
-- Alfred de Musset

#Love #Looks #Sometimes

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt

#Eye #Sometimes #Photograph

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Islamic #Silence #Sometimes

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.
-- Ali Liebegott

#Book #Firsts #Sometimes

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
-- Alice B. Toklas

#Mind #Sometimes #Illness

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
-- Alice Hoffman

#Done #Sometimes #Feels

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
-- Alice Hoffman

#Running #Mean #Sometimes

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
-- Alice Munro

#Age #Sometimes

Sometimes when almost everything is wrong, one thing is so right you would do it all again.
-- Alice Randall

#Inspirational #Sometimes

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
-- Ally Carter

#Eye #Outsiders #Sometimes