- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes Quotes
The exceptions that shape the rule.
"Sometimes" is the hinge word in this collection, softening bigger claims into honest exceptions — including a candid look at why people take jobs in law enforcement despite the risks. For quotes on feeling and mood, see Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I kayak in Cardigan Bay, in Wales, what I hope to find above all else is dolphins. Sometimes I do, and these days are the waymarks of my life.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
- Household
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- Nov 07, 2020
One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you're stood in front of 100 people, delivering a speech with rage and lots of emotion, that can be utterly terrifying. I find that very scary.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's hard, when you start engaging with people on the Internet, to forget that, actually, we really don't know one another... that's something I need to learn a lot more.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020