Top 100 Sometimes Being Quotes
#1. I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?
Milos Zeman
#2. There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper ...
May Sarton
#3. Sometimes people misunderstand being scared and cautious. The former is when you are intimidated into the state of anxiety and confusion, while the later is when you acknowledge a risk but undoubtedly expecting positive outcome.
Uzoma Nnadi
#4. What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#5. Sometimes being brave means having to leave things behind and taking that step forward without looking back.
Tanya
#6. Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.
Richard Simmons
#7. I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
Victoria Wood
#8. I'd gotten so used to being known as the girl whose dad died, I sometimes forgot that I'd had a life before that.
Sarah Dessen
#9. Sometimes get lost in the white noise of people's anger and being super adamant on one side or the other. And what fails to happen is that you actually aren't disseminating the information that you want to get across to these people.
Drew Barrymore
#10. I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.
Giancarlo Esposito
#11. Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.
Micah Lexier
#12. Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'
Kate Winslet
#13. Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
Bryan Ferry
#14. For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.
Hilton Als
#15. Sometimes being surronded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
Soraya
#16. Sometimes being a good friend is about saying no, about trying to do what's best for your friend regardless of what they say.
Gitty Daneshvari
#17. Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his days were spent being consumed rather than consuming.
Tom Bissell
#18. That sometimes on the journey to being a grown-up, something would happen that would advance the trip a whole year in a single day.
Karen Kingsbury
#19. Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.
Paul Gauguin
#20. Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other's lives. We call this phenomenon
'growing apart'.
Steve Maraboli
#21. Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.
Nicholas Hoult
#22. Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you.If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.
Ted Nugent
#23. My husband doesn't have to try to add to my comedy he just does being himself and saying & doing the things he does. We have a good friendship & I think couples can relate to our dynamic and sometimes out lack of dynamics too.
Heather McDonald
#24. Sometimes things seem too good to be true.
Keke Palmer
#25. Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.
Paul Hoffman
#26. Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.
Philip Kerr
#27. Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#28. I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.
Alex Chilton
#29. I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.
Simon McBurney
#30. There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.
Edward Abbey
#31. The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.
Joel Garreau
#32. Sometimes being in control of everything comes with a lot of challenges.
Arlene Dickinson
#33. Life isn't about being perfect and sometimes life sure as hell isn't about having perfect timing. It just is. Either you embrace it or you lose your opportunity to what could be something amazing.
M. Clarke
#34. There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
Criss Jami
#35. Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive, because we have a positive message to send ... We ought to be the most compassionate people in the world.
Kevin Cramer
#36. I have been being careful since the first minute I saw you. I am the Queen of Carefulness. I shall go on being careful for ever, if you like - so long as I might be a bit reckless, sometimes, when we are quite alone
Sarah Waters
#37. Sometimes it is necessary to celebrate life, despite being faced with defeat and death.
Jolina Petersheim
#38. Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.
David Finckel
#39. Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?
Caroline Dhavernas
#40. Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.
John Lithgow
#41. Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy.
Hilary Duff
#42. Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.
Patricia C. Wrede
#43. Being able to endure is sometimes the key to survival.
Eraldo Banovac
#44. Sometimes you just gotta suck at being the person people think you are.
Ellie Rose McKee
#45. It's not always easy being her daughter.'
I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
Sarah Dessen
#46. Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Craig Thompson
#47. Sometimes we exclude things in ourselves in order to be like everybody else around us-our ethnicity, our social backgrounds, our ideas. What kind of world is it that will not allow me to be myself, and is it really good for me to be there? What part of me will die a slow death if I stay?
Joan D. Chittister
#48. I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.
Jon Ronson
#49. People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
Meryl Streep
#50. None of us have escaped being both good and evil, sometimes simultaneously.
Jessica Dotta
#51. It is important to be nice. But sometimes niceness can be misconstrued as weak. Should we be nice to everybody? Should we be nice only when others are nice to us? Here are some interesting views about being nice. Read these nice quotes and turn on your niceness.
Dave Barry
#52. Don't you wonder sometimes why so much gets heaped on certain people?" I almost told the truth. That truth being, "I wouldn't dare." I wouldn't dare dwell on a thing like that. I try to look forward in my life. Because what's behind me is a little hard to take.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#53. Sometimes heaven was feeling nothing. Maybe being drunk was a little like dying and going to heaven. Like living in the light. He kept thinking of Ileana. She was eight now.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#54. I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.
Eric Braeden
#55. When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.
Louis C.K.
#56. Sometimes, if she was afraid, she'd take all her fear and gather it up and turn it into anger. Anger didn't paralyze the way fear did. It was the opposite of being helpless. But it was dangerous too, because you could end up being angry all the time.
Dan Krokos
#57. This proves the significance of individualism; being able to face the music, to embrace it, and then create something beautiful from it. You can't truly be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes and the pinnacle of life can only be reached when one can carve their own path.
Nadege Richards
#58. I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
Brian Eno
#59. It was like being shot at by arrows in the chest, which when taken out would cause more pain than before.
Sometimes I can't help but wonder how much a man has to endure before its over, once and for all.
Chirag Tulsiani
#60. Being asked to help can sometimes be as difficult as asking for , because it can feel awkward, uncomfortable, aggravating and inconvenient. Yet we are called to open the door to inconvenience.
Cindee Snider Re
#61. Where we learned we could make each other laugh, and sometimes that's all you need to know about a person to know that being friends is a good idea.
Sara Bareilles
#62. Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Matthew J. Kirby
#63. Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.
Idries Shah
#64. I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.
Alice Walker
#65. Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.
Adhish Mazumder
#66. I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clandestine were alive, it would be a pale little girl with hair the color of fall leaves and a dress as white as the moon.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#67. As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.
Jenna Marbles
#68. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa
#69. There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.
Thomas Bangalter
#70. But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.
Lindsey Kelk
#71. I had difficulty being friends with women who hadn't worked in either the sex or beauty industries. I felt like other women sometimes overvalued beauty and sexuality, when in actuality, they're just parts of a job.
Molly Crabapple
#72. When I asked her about her marriage, she'd only say that sometimes people, even those who love each other, can hurt each other just by being themselves.
Cate Rowan
#73. Maybe man does not love well-being only? Maybe he loves suffering just as much? Maybe suffering is just as profitable for him as well-being? For man sometimes loves suffering terribly much, to the point of passion, and that is a fact.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#74. That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up at these places where you know nobody, and sometimes with really impressive, high stakes people like Roman Polanski.
John C. Reilly
#75. Sometimes all we have to do is make the simple choice to stop being angry or fearful in order to discover the infinite wonders of the Universe that await us behind a door we shut long ago.
Molly Friedenfeld
#76. Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#77. Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
Abby Wambach
#78. Don't you sometimes get a little tired of being so constantly outraged? - Mr Marsh
Liesel Schwarz
#79. I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.
Anna Kendrick
#80. There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music - to breach the barrier, to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.
Jenny Colgan
#81. Sometimes you need to swallow hard and recognise your enemy as a fellow human being like who has the same rights as you and accept that you need to live in same space.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#82. Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.
Syesha Mercado
#83. Sometimes life demands things of you, that just the fact of being alive means for allowing for possibilites that may be far from what you'd planned or even hoped.
Robin Black
#84. Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day after day, week after week, his nonchalance eroded my heart. Sometimes, being an optimist was quite the fucking effort.
Kristan Higgins
#85. People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
Gary Oldman
#86. Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.
Miguel Syjuco
#87. If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
Victoria Justice
#88. The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
Dorothy Day
#89. The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
Ben Bernanke
#90. 1. Ask: "Do you want to talk about how you're feeling?" 2. Don't ask if there's anything you can do. Suggest things, or if it's not intrusive, just do them. 3. You don't have to talk all the time. Sometimes just being there is enough. The
Will Schwalbe
#91. Sometimes we fall in love and end up losing ourselves. We allow ourselves to become different people. But we have choices, Lily. We can choose to find the person we used to be, the person we really are. Or we can continue on as this new being."
-Conall.
Chani Lynn Feener
#92. I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.
Dylan Bruce
#93. Confidence was one key to victory. The other side believing you were confident was sometimes almost as good as actually being confident.
Robert Jordan
#94. Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful: It's more important what I think of me than what someone else thinks of me.
Beverly Engel
#95. Not everyone deals with what they don't like or understand in a positive way. Some people are going to judge you. Sometimes it's someone you really love and being rejected by them is incredibly painful.
Lauren Dane
#96. Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.
Kyra Sedgwick
#97. I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
Naomi Campbell
#99. Sometimes being too nice is dangerous, you have to show your mean side once in a while to avoid getting hurt.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#100. I'm tired of someone being called 'quirky' because they tripped or got a stain on their shirt. It's like a beautiful blonde lady who's quirky because she has bedhead, or she's quirky because she sometimes says the wrong, cute thing. I like it when women are quirky as human beings.
Jenny Slate
