- Great
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- 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
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when something doesn't go the way it should go, everyone blames the concept. Sometimes we screw up the way we implement it.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes in a sculpture, it's interesting to me what's stylized and what's natural and how those forms interrelate, as they interrelate in ourselves.
- Direct Contact
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.
- American Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Times were poor. I wore hand-me-downs. And because the kids just older than me in the family were girls, sometimes I had to wear my sisters' hand-me-downs.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020