Top 100 Sometimes We Need To Quotes

#1. Sin doesn't always look sinful to us; sometimes it looks beautiful. That's why we need grace to see sin for what it really is - dark, dangerous, enslaving and destructive.

Paul David Tripp

#2. Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.

L.E. Horn

#3. Good. Because I don't need protecting."
"I knew you'd say that.But the thing is, sometimes you do. And sometimes I do. We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.

Cassandra Clare

#4. 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

#5. Sometimes it seems that the world is a very, very, large, insane asylum. We need only not get caught in others' madness and stick to our own.

Art Hochberg

#6. 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

#7. Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

Roberto Benigni

#8. Many things can cause us to worry, but a kind word or deed can do wonders. Sometimes that's all we need to feel better.

Kate Klise

#9. Sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Cecelia Ahern

#10. I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#11. The one who poses the most danger may not be a stranger, Sometimes it's those we hold dear that we really need to fear

Antonia Monacelli

#12. We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.

Simone Elkeles

#13. If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

Sarah Dessen

#14. Sometimes all we need is a calm walk in a lonely street to ease or to strengthen our minds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. We don't have to always win,
Sometimes we need to be deprived by others to improve ourselves.

Grace

#16. Sometimes, we do not need a lot of words to convey meaning. For example, imagine a lovely sunset.

Richard Gentle

#17. 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

#18. We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.

Tony Blair

#20. When the culture of police departments is sometimes infused with bias or preconceived ideas against certain groups, there needs to be reform and retraining throughout. And unfortunately, we cannot rely on local departments to police themselves; we need intervention from the top.

Al Sharpton

#21. We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that ... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

Otto Rehhagel

#22. Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Will Oldham

#23. Sometimes when we see or hear of a need, there is nothing we can do to help. Sometimes the only thing we can do is pray. But never underestimate the power of the prayers of the righteous.

Merrilee Boyack

#24. Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

R. K. Milholland

#25. Creating fantasy is real work, important work. It's a hard, cold world we live in, and sometimes we need to escape. Sometimes we need that more than food or water or a roof over our heads.

G.A. McKevett

#26. Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.

John Shimkus

#27. Sometimes, we have bad on the inside and good on the outside. In these instances, we need to be able to open up our boundaries to let the good in and the bad out. In other words, our fences need gates in them.

Henry Cloud

#28. Because sometimes all we need is somebody to sit in silence with.

Jolene Perry

#29. Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way ... We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

Malcolm Gladwell

#30. Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

Mary Pipher

#31. Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other .

Nicholas Sparks

#32. Thank you." Isn't that all we need to hear sometimes - that you're a good mom or friend or daughter or wife?

Renee Carlino

#33. Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.

Anne Jackson

#34. We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

Lauren Groff

#35. Sometimes we need to lie to protect our happiness." I

Davonna Juroe

#36. Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, I am the only common denominator here.

Dan Pearce

#37. Anggia, as women we need to protect ourselves from getting hurt. But sometimes hurt is inevitable that we just have to deal with it. - Kylie, Remember When

Winna Efendi

#38. We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure.

Lysa TerKeurst

#39. It's okay to be a blow stick. Sometimes we need to break before we glow.

Taylor Smith

#40. I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.

Lamar Alexander

#41. The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

Michael Dirda

#42. People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.

Common

#43. Sometimes we need to open our eyes wide and intentionally look for Jesus, in the midst of our own worlds.

Brandon Heath

#44. We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

Seth Godin

#45. Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing.

Susan May Warren

#46. When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another...

J.A. Tran

#47. I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

Derek Sivers

#48. All of that has been a brutal lesson to me in not overlooking or misunderstanding what is actually there, in your hands, now. We always think the thing we need to transform everything
the miracle
is elsewhere, but often it is right next to us. Sometimes it is us, ourselves.

Jeanette Winterson

#49. Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.

Brother Lawrence

#50. counter-cultural. We're so used to having more than enough that many of us have never truly learned what it is to trust God to provide what we need. Yet sometimes God will lead us to this place to teach us to trust Him, to rely on His provision and to experience the wonder of His love.

Jennifer Carter

#51. Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever.

Vironika Tugaleva

#52. Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edward Hirsch

#53. Sometimes I have good ideas. I love that part of our job. It's a constant process of searching, of exploring stuff, and realizing things. You can be in the middle of the film and it's like, "Oh my God! I think we need to do this! Maybe in this scene she should shave her head!"

Noomi Rapace

#54. Sometimes I think we can learn everything we need to know about the world when we read fairy tales. Be careful, be fearless, be honest, leave a trail of crumbs to lead you home again.

Alice Hoffman

#55. If we abdicate responsibility for our choices, we may become angry, sometimes full of rage at others for running our lives, for telling us what to do. We need to take responsibility. We need to trust ourselves.

Melody Beattie

#56. Sometimes we need to examine who we are,
what we stand for and the people we allow in our lives.

Christine Willson

#57. 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

#58. Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.

Charles De Lint

#59. Sometimes we just need to be heard ... There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed.

Steve Maraboli

#60. Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#61. Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

Nick Vujicic

#62. I learned something about truth - that truth has an urgency. It forces itself up sometimes, disregarding your need not to look, brought to the surface by that part of us that looks out for our own safety and well-being, if only we'd listen.

Deb Caletti

#63. Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.

Paulo Coelho

#64. Sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in.

Charles Bukowski

#65. We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

Whoopi Goldberg

#66. Ah, that is the miracle of the written word. It beckons our unconscious out of hiding. It tells us things we need to know, sometimes things we don't want to know.

Amy Gail Hansen

#67. Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#68. The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

Felix J. Palma

#69. Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

Wil Wheaton

#70. Sometimes even grown women need their mother's comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time.

Colleen Hoover

#71. If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

James Gleick

#72. Sometimes life goes in a direction not of our choosing," said the minister, softly. "That's why we need to adapt. It's never too late to change direction.

Louise Penny

#73. Sometimes we need to heed our fears and negative thoughts, and at all times we need to be alert to the world outside ourselves, even when that includes absorbing bad news and entertaining the views of "negative" people.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#74. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

Colleen Hoover

#75. If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

Simon Blackburn

#76. Sometimes there are actions that we are forced to take, but there need to be boundaries beyond which we are going to recognize that we're not going to go because we still are Americans, and we are supposed to be representing something to people in this country and overseas.

John O. Brennan

#77. Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

Anne Lamott

#78. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

William Bennett

#79. Sometimes we set boundaries for ourselves in life, or even worse, we allow others to do so. In many cases, these boundaries are just in our mind and need to be pushed away.

Lewis Pugh

#80. The world is so beautiful, when you look at it.
So detailed. So sharp. Everything's just there
so much more than we need. Light we can't see, sounds we can't hear. Sometimes I wonder if that's what it takes to make it real.

Manna Francis

#81. In the future, 'the networked' will sometimes form alliances with the Silicon Valley companies against Congress, but sometimes we are going to want and need to target our campaigns for change at the companies themselves.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#82. Even when we think we cannot rise up, there is still hope. And sometimes we just need someone to look us in the eyes, take our hand, and say, 'you can do it now!'

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#83. There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

Jane Goodall

#84. Sometimes we need someone to just listen. Not to try and fix anything or offer alternatives, but to just be there ... to listen. An ear that listens can be medicine to a heart that hurts.

Steve Maraboli

#85. We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#86. The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

Bill Gates

#87. It hurt to see the hatred on her face, pure and astonished, but sometimes a bit of pain's just what we need: to cauterize the wound, burn out the infection. She saw me and I saw her, both of us stripped of pretence in that empty moment, newlyweds naked for their conjugals.

Mark Lawrence

#88. We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#89. He moves in, standing close without touching. He doesn't need to. I sometimes think our atoms are so glad to see each other that they send little messengers back and forth, ferrying desire, strength, and love between the islands we are.

Karen Marie Moning

#90. Sometimes, we don't need words to express what heart hides. Eyes are the doorways to heart

Nikhil Kushwaha

#91. There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#92. We do need a system, and we do need you and your 'Bertos, and sometimes we need Sam to just come along and kick some ass. - Quinn

Michael Grant

#93. Sometimes we need to forgive those who have hurt us and ourselves so that one can move on

Robin Maddison

#94. Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.

Chuck Norris

#95. Sometimes, we
become so familiar with the primal sacred story of the Bible that we need some fresh takes on it, telling us the same thing in different ways, or giving us some new vantage points to see what was always there, things we'd missed before.

Brian D. McLaren

#96. Sometimes, we still need people who deprecate us, because they're the real motivator in our life, to make us stand up again.

Fildzah Kharisma

#97. My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

Taylor Dayne

#98. Chin up. There are other fish in the sea. It's a big ocean. Sometimes we need to catch and release a few before we find the keeper.

Kasie West

#99. The reason we need words to define our hearts is that our hearts are lonely, vulnerable, bare and beating things, and sometimes, they do not always know truth unless they hear it.

Amy Lane

#100. We've heard from people all around the world, telling us that this is their reality. People need a way to connect the sometimes really hard reality in which they wake up each morning with the movement of the Spirit.

Shane Claiborne

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