Top 100 Sometimes We Get Quotes
#1. Sometimes we get defensive about what we feel guilty about.
Amy Poehler
#2. Sometimes, we get so used to pain we begin to enjoy it, then we do all we can to prolong it.
Tayo Emmanuel
#3. Sometimes we get so enamored with the tradition of something that we forget about the intent of it.
Todd Stocker
#5. Sometimes we get to find what we always wanted, only to realize that its something we can never have, but despite this, we want it all the same.
Reynard
#6. sometimes we get confused and believe that our gift must bring us money or success or fame.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#7. Sometimes we get discouraged and turn to inspirational writing, like stuff from Vince Lombardi: "Quitters never win and winners never quit." Bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time. Most people quit. They just don't quit successfully.
Anonymous
#8. Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
Arthur Golden
#9. To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.
Joan D. Vinge
#10. Blood family, that's something we get dealt. Sometimes we get a bad hand. Not much way around it. You just have to grow up and get more family. The kind you get to pick out yourself.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#11. Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.
John Hawkins
#12. Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.
Butch Harmon
#13. Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone.
- Short Sammy
Susan Patron
#14. Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.
Lindsey Kelk
#15. Sometimes we get so busy pursuing our dream that we forget to notice the degree to which we're living it already.
Victoria Moran
#16. Sometimes we get confused about what happiness really means. Sometimes we get confused about what path to take to get to happiness.
Chinelo Okparanta
#17. Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.
Dwayne Johnson
#18. But sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we don't really know we are sad. So we say we aren't sad. But really we are.
Mark Haddon
#19. No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.
Lucas Black
#20. Sometimes we get stuck in patterns or reoccurring themes in our lives that require a shocking epiphany to give us the opportunity to see new possibilities and notice the obstacles that keep us from moving on.
Kat Lahr
#21. We are living in a process of pursuit. But sometimes we get so focused on trying to get where we're going and we forget that this is life, too. We're living it right now.
Alison Sudol
#22. People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we're left unfinished. Sometimes that's for the best. Some pieces can't be forced into a puzzle, or at least they shouldn't be, because they won't make sense.
Adam Silvera
#23. Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.
Damon Lindelof
#24. Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.
Adriana Trigiani
#25. Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.
Yanni
#26. Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.
Judah Smith
#27. Sometimes we get off course, desiring things or setting goals that will lead to no good end. But if our desire is in the right place, loving Jesus and loving others, there is no telling where Jesus can take us.
Richard Foth
#28. It's okay for someone to let you win sometimes, you know,' he said, getting all serious. 'We don't always have to be the losers, Valerie. They may want to make us feel that way, but we're not. Sometimes we get to win, too.
Jennifer Brown
#29. Her heart just about stopped. "Us?" she asked in shock. "There is no us. There's a you. And there's a me. And okay, so sometimes we get crazy and become a very momentary us but it's not real." "It could be," he said. She gaped at him, completely gobsmacked.
Jill Shalvis
#31. Y'ever notice that sometimes we get so focused on the path we're treadin' that we lose sight of where we're goin' in the first place?
Genevieve Dewey
#32. Exactly," He tucked a lock of hair behind my ear. "Sometimes we help ourselves, and sometimes we get help from ghosts in the woods and bampots in BMWs.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#33. Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.
David Nalbandian
#34. We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.
Kate Jacobs
#35. Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.
Mark Haddon
#36. Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
Dallas Willard
#37. To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.
Joel Osteen
#38. Sometimes we get a little bit of a facade. We think we have people. Family, friends ... but in the end, it's just you and the darkness. Everyone leaves eventually, my young friend. It's better, really, to learn early. This way, you can save yourself some disappointment.
Morgan Matson
#39. I had to get away from him. Sometimes we reject the people who tell the truth and it is not because they are wrong. It is because we can't
Rachel Joyce
#40. It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
Robert Collier
#41. As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.
Aaron Douglas
#42. Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
Jack Huston
#43. I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.
Shawn Marion
#44. What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.
Dave Davies
#45. Sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.
Cecelia Ahern
#46. To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
Hal Holbrook
#47. The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.
Tamara Mellon
#48. Sometimes when the poop hits the fan we should block it and run, sometimes we should haul off and knock it for a loop back at the spinning blades. Wisdom is knowing two things. One is which time is which. The other is that no matter what you do you're gonna get crap on your hand.
Faith Hunter
#49. We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.
Ruben Studdard
#50. We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.
Shane Koyczan
#51. Growing up, we had 30, 40, 50 people coming through the house some Thanksgivings. Sometimes there was a kids' table; other times, the plate was just sitting on your lap. You get in where you fit in at that house.
Michael Strahan
#52. We are all on stage, my dear. Sometimes we forget our lines, but luckily an offstage helper can whisper our lines to us until we get back on track.
Maria La Serra
#53. Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.
Jewel
#54. You lose people sometimes, you know. You don't expect to, but then it happens and you can't get them back." We
Alice Hoffman
#55. Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#56. Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose , don't expect anything to get back
Paulo Coelho
#57. Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities ... to get together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times" - my voice grows quiet - "that we've missed our chance.
Stephanie Perkins
#58. Sometimes, Dan, friends have to take a stand and say:
Hey, idiot, we're here for you no matter what. We're not
going to disappear when you get grumpy or angry, we're in
this for the long haul. We're in this for each other.
Madeleine Roux
#59. I think people do get better as the movies go on sometimes, and I'm always happy that we're shooting out of order, so it's kind of scattered throughout the movie, and there isn't like a clear build in everyone finding their characters.
Seth Rogen
#60. We each have only one voice. And the world is so loud. Sometimes I think that the quiet ones have figured out that the best way to get other people's attention is not to shout, but to whisper. Which makes everyone listen a little harder.
Meg Wolitzer
#61. People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
Thom Yorke
#62. The heart, yeah, sometimes I didn't get it. But if we were making each other laugh and smile, maybe it was part of the way human beings loved each other.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#63. I think there's just too much comedy. Sometimes I get requests from people: 'How do I get into comedy?' And I always say that what we need is more people in health care. And less people in comedy.
Marshall Brickman
#64. I like to think we're all born to do good, but dark things sometimes get in the way.
Anonymous
#65. I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.
Peter Steele
#66. A lot of the off-ice is actually spent sort of as a recovery process. Because the closer we get to a competition, the more and more you do on-ice. So if you're already on the ice three to four hours, you get enough cardio doing your run-throughs. But I sometimes do the elliptical or bike.
Gracie Gold
#67. Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside.
Keith Sweat
#68. We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.
Nina Fedoroff
#69. We all of us seem to have this belief that things are going to get better. Why should they? Sometimes I think we're moving into a new ice age of tyranny and terror, why not? Who's to stop it - us?
Doris Lessing
#70. Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as a Black actress, there's not a whole lot out there for us, unless we're creating it.
Kym Whitley
#71. Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.
Chad Smith
#72. Sometimes you do get tired in the business from all the traveling. No one outside of the business realizes what we go through ... Sometimes you don't mean to be unkind, but sometimes you're tired and do things you don't mean. I know the real fans understand.
Tammy Wynette
#73. Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.
Billy Bob Thornton
#74. Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.
Merle Haggard
#75. Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
Lukas Foss
#76. I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was so excited to go to work every day, and we ran into work every day.
Bruce Willis
#77. By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism
John Avlon
#78. It's okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.
Megan Hart
#79. The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable.
Brian Greene
#80. We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.
Adam Duritz
#82. That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to forgive. And be forgiven.
Marian Keyes
#83. I know life sometimes can get tough!
And I know life sometimes can be a drag!
But people, we have been given a gift,
we have been given a road
And that road's name is Rock and Roll!
Paul Stanley
#84. It's possible for an editor to break down a dream, if you like, into its components and being able to shoot the wide shots in sunshine, when the weather was at its best and you know, we would get sort of almost a 3D effect sometimes if you chose the right time of day to shoot the thing.
John Glen
#85. Bast had insisted we keep everyone up-to-speed on the regular subjects like math and reading, although she did sometimes add her own elective courses, such as Advanced Cat Grooming, or Napping. There was a waiting list to get into Napping.
Rick Riordan
#86. Come on, Marianna! Women are like Priuses - although we can go for miles and miles without it, sometimes we still need to get filled up!
Alexandra Brenton
#87. The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#88. Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. SOMETIMES WHAT WE WANT BUT CANT GET IT, EVEN WE DO NOT TRY TO GET IT. AT LAST WE SATISFIED JUST FAILURE.
RUPEE
#91. What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.
Kevin Costner
#92. Sometimes with films you have a freedom to be able to, Okay, we got that take so let's try another one where suddenly I'll say this, or you'll get to improv. You can't do that with stage. We have to make it new every time, and also within the structured settings.
Sebastian Stan
#93. We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push to make us have a good time. In both cases, our future self will appreciate the help.
Virginia Postrel
#94. Sometimes it's a struggle to get over self-love first. Sometimes in this struggle for love, we give up, or lose everything, and we still don't achieve love. Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.
J. California Cooper
#95. We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.
Dawn Angelique
#96. I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#97. My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." " ... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita.
Vladimir Nabokov
#98. Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.
Cassandra King
#99. Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we do.
Mike Krzyzewski
#100. Strength is nothing more than enduring life - to be able to survive the heartaches and agonies we go through with our heads held high. Sometimes just walking through adversity to get to the other side is a sign of strength.
Sylvia Browne
