Quotes by category:Sometimes

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

poet students sometimes

God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (tr... by Edward T Welch

God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (try to) make Him.

trying sometimes

Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong. by Edward Tenner

Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.

sometimes children firsts

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

study sometimes interesting

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

knives may sometimes

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

Edwidge Danticat

wonderful sometimes people

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

intention realizing sometimes

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything. by Ehud Olmert

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

fighting impossible sometimes

I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being t... by Ehud Olmert

I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.

tired reason sometimes

Wardruna is a combination of old and new. I use historical instruments and new and electronic instruments and tools. I use drones and samples to build these huge sounds. Sometimes just a sound can trigger words or melodies. I don't have a romantic notion about the past; with Wardruna I wanted to create something new using something old.

historical sometimes past

I can't write or read music. I am self-taught and never learned formally. It can be a curse sometimes but I think it's more difficult for those who need the music to read from than for those who play by ear.

writing sometimes thinking

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

urban scribes sometimes

Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we shou... by Elaine S. Dalton

Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

Elaine S. Dalton

preoccupation focus sometimes

Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.

vices students sometimes

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

sometimes boys firsts

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

Elfriede Jelinek

doe doors sometimes

I have spoken to many people who have begun to live in presence, and they find many changes come into their lives. Sometimes these changes happen as inner realizations - "This is what I have to do" - or they arise from the external when something suddenly happens.

realization sometimes people

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

resistance silence sometimes

Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.

Elias Lyman Magoon

shameful sometimes lying

When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.

choices devotion sometimes