Sometimes Quotes:

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

topic: Sometimes, Humans

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

topic: Government, Definitions, 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.

topic: Sometimes

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

topic: Men, Careers, Sometimes, Primates, Ulterior Motive

- Albert Einstein

topic: Sometimes, Truth Is, Easy

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

- Albert Pike

topic: Liberty, Sometimes, Speak

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

- Albert Scott Crossfield

source: Albert Scott Crossfield (2015). “Always Another Dawn: The Story Of A Rocket Test Pilot”, p.109, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Pilots, Aviation, Sometimes

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

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: Sometimes, Far Away

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

- Aleksey Igudesman

topic: Use, Violin, Sometimes

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

- Alessandro Baricco

source: Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

topic: Sides, Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

- Alethea Kontis

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: Player, Doubt, Sometimes

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

- Alex Flinn

topic: 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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Crush, Tragedy, Sometimes

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

- Alexa Chung

source: "Q&A: Alexa Chung" by Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

topic: Everything Happens For A Reason, Sometimes, Reason, Sometimes In Life

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Luck, Sometimes, Penicillin, Antibiotics, Discovering The World

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

source: Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

topic: Thinking, Sometimes

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

- Alexander McCall Smith

topic: Happiness, Sometimes, Easier

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

- Alexander Pope

topic: 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

source: Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.140, Macmillan

topic: Life, Sometimes, Like You

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

- Alexandra Adornetto

topic: Littles, Sometimes, Little Things, Bold Actions

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

- Alexandra Adornetto

source: Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.153, Macmillan

topic: Cutting, Trying, Sometimes, Gray Area

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

- Alexandra Bracken

topic: 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

topic: Hurt, Upset, Sometimes

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

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Sometimes, Enough

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

- Alexandre Dumas-fils

source: Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.93, Penguin

topic: 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

topic: Mind, Sometimes, Feds, Fed Up

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

- Alexia Fast

topic: 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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Body, Sometimes, Boring, Old Person

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

- Alfred Bester

source: Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

topic: 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

topic: Love, Looks, Sometimes

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: Islamic, Silence, Sometimes

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

- Ali Liebegott

source: "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

topic: Book, Firsts, Sometimes

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

- Alice B. Toklas

topic: Mind, Sometimes, Illness, Mind Free

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

- Alice Hoffman

source: Twitter post from Aug 16, 2016

topic: Done, Sometimes, Feels, Practical Magic

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

- Alice Hoffman

topic: 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

topic: Age, Sometimes

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

- Alice Randall

topic: Inspirational, Sometimes

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

The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.

source: Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.75, Hachette UK

topic: Eye, Outsiders, Sometimes

Because sometimes not liking someone is easier.

topic: Secret, Sometimes

Sometimes people runâ€¦ to see if you'll come after them

topic: Liking Someone, Sometimes, Easier

I'm really laid back but I still like to dress up sometimes.

topic: Running, People, Sometimes

- Allyson Felix

topic: Laid Back, Dresses, Sometimes

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

- Alton Brown

topic: Kitchen, Facts, Sometimes, Charcoal

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

- Alvin Ailey

topic: Sometimes, Reason, About Yourself

Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.

- Amanda Beard

topic: Giving, Sometimes, Give It Your All

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.

- Amanda Hocking

source: Jaimal Yogis (2009). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

topic: Choices, Trying, Sometimes

Sometimes its odd to interact with someone to whom you purposed.

- Amardeep Singh

topic: Sometimes, Odd

Sometimes the lambs slaughter the butcher.

- Amarillo Slim

source: Amarillo Slim Preston, Bill G. Cox (1973). “Play poker to win”, Not Avail

topic: Lambs, Sometimes, Butchers

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

- Amartya Sen

topic: Freedom, Poverty, Sometimes

I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.

- Amaury Nolasco

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, May, Sometimes

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

- Ambeth R. Ocampo

topic: Pay, Sometimes

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Variables, Sometimes, Conviction

I still listen to tracks sometimes and hear some of the harmonies and its just amazing.

- Amerie

topic: Inspiring, Track, Sometimes

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

- Amy Clampitt

topic: Writing, Sometimes, Rage

Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Vibes, Sometimes

Sometimes the things we want to be rescued from can save us.

- Amy Harmon

topic: Want, Sometimes

Sometimes people say oh you did one of my favorite movies and I will ask them what the other one is and it's always something that I totally hate.

- Amy Heckerling

source: "Interview with Vamps Director Amy Heckerling". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2012.

topic: Hate, People, Sometimes

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

- Amy Hempel

topic: Writing, Doors, Sometimes

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

- Amy Lee

topic: Emotional, Passionate, Sometimes, Emotional Person

Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Feel Better, Feelings, Sometimes

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

- Amy Sedaris

topic: Pet, Losing, Sometimes, Lost Dog, Dog Died

I sometimes skip meals when I travel.

- Amy Smart

topic: Meals, Sometimes, Skip

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Sometimes, Abnormality

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

- Andie MacDowell

topic: Thinking, Negativity, Sometimes

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

- Andie MacDowell

topic: Doe, Sometimes, Remarkable

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

- Andie MacDowell

topic: Thinking, People, Sometimes

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

- Andre Agassi

topic: Discovery, Finding Yourself, Sometimes

I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.

- Andre Benjamin

topic: Writing, Thinking, Sometimes, Writing And Thinking, Freestyle

With music, you can portray a certain thing, but in film, sometimes you have to let yourself go to a point where that can be attractive to a person, that you're willing to let yourself go that much. It works both ways.

- Andre Benjamin

topic: Way, Sometimes, Film

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

- Andre Benjamin

topic: Cages, Nostalgia, Sometimes

What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there.

- Andrea Camilleri

source: Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Voice of the Violin”, p.44, Pan Macmillan

topic: Two, Television, Sometimes

Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.

- Andrea Gibson

topic: Healing, People, Sometimes

Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.

- Andrej Pejic

source: "Andrej Pejic On Lea T.: ‘I Think I Cover More Fields’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

topic: Vases, Sometimes, Diamond

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

- Andres Iniesta

source: "Q&A with Spain's Andres Iniesta". Interview with Richard Deitsch, www.si.com. June 02, 2011.

topic: Trying, Sometimes, Difficult, Speaking In Public

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

- Andrew Bird

topic: Thinking, Littles, Sometimes

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

- Andrew Bird

source: Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

topic: Writing, Sometimes, Enjoy

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

- Andrew Jackson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Patriotic, Blood, Sometimes, Spilling

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

- Andrew Schneider

source: "'Northern Exposure' ('Three Doctors')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, September 20, 1993.

topic: Mind, Milk, Sometimes

Sometimes you have to open yourself to the random possibilities of, I guess, destiny.

- Andrew W.K.

source: Source: www.usatoday.com

topic: Destiny, Sometimes, Possibility

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

- Andy Couturier

topic: Sometimes, Enough, Plant

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

- Andy Goldsworthy

topic: Interesting, Able, Sometimes

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

- Andy Irons

topic: Mud, Surf, Sometimes

Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

- Andy Pettitte

topic: Men, Faces, Sometimes

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

- Ang Lee

topic: Done, Sometimes, Angry

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

- Ang Lee

topic: Artist, Night, Sometimes

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

- Angela Davis

topic: Sometimes, Wells

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

- Anil Kapoor

topic: Thinking, Would Be, Sometimes

I know sometimes, that all it takes to be invincible, is to know you are such.

- Anis Mojgani

topic: Sometimes, Invincible

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

- Anita Brookner

source: Anita Brookner (1986). “The Misalliance”, Pantheon

topic: Youth, Sometimes, Misspent Youth

Sometimes I miss the old me.

- Ann Aguirre

source: Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.43, Penguin

topic: Missing, Sometimes

No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.

- Ann Aguirre

topic: Heartbreaking, Matter, Sometimes

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

topic: Relief, Sometimes, Invisible

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

topic: Want, Flip, Sometimes

Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper

topic: Memories, Keys, Sometimes, Poor Memory