Top 1200 Sometimes I Wonder Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

No one can do anything by themselves. Sometimes you may need help and sometimes you will be offering it.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.

When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.

You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.

On crosses, sometimes I make my move one or two seconds before the ball is coming because I'm trying to guess that the ball is coming there. It's intuition. So I run. Sometimes the ball comes...sometimes not. But that intuition is working.

Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.

Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.

Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

Sometimes not honoring your character makes for really good television, but that also can really upset fans. You have to turn things upside sometimes. As a storyteller, you have to know that sometimes you're going to let your fans and the audience down because you have to do your part in servicing the story.

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.

Sometimes I was sad, sometimes happy. Just on and off. Always I felt welcome. It's just, you know, sometimes as a human being, you cannot always be happy. You do good things, you do bad things, people talk.

Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.

Life gives you a lot of experiences, sometimes it is a good experience and sometimes it is bad.

I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. Like, I'm unsure of what my life will be like. I mean, I have such an obsession with making movies that I probably will always do that. But sometimes my life can feel so suffocating, and then it can feel so massive, like I don't have a handle on it at all, and I don't know where it's going or what I'm going to do. Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

All managers make decisions, and sometimes they are right, and sometimes people say they are wrong.

Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.

Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted values. If you look at history, history is just a succession of people meeting other people, either through commerce, voyages or wars.

I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does.

Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.

Stop trying to figure it out. I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle. Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together. And I like that because, ultimately, I don't want to have life figured out and then wonder, "What's next?" That seems scary to me.

Stevie Wonder used to come the ball games and they would have a guy sitting with him. And the guy would be holding on to his arm, telling him what's going on, and he would say, "Hey, the big chocolate guy just put down a thunder dunk. The chocolate guy with another monster dunk." And Stevie Wonder actually gave me the nickname Chocolate Thunder.

Sometimes I play better. Sometimes I have a bad game. But as a team, it's not about me.

Maybe we were together in another life...in a parallel universe, maybe our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me. I hear about you now & then, I wonder where you are & how you feel. Sometimes I walk by & I look up to your balcony, just to make sure you were real-just to make sure that I can still feel you...it appears to me that Destiny Rules.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.

Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you're unlucky. It all weighs out at the end. That is my experience at least.

Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.

Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.

Sometimes comfort zones are the best. Sometimes discomfort is just what the doctor ordered.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It's just the intensity. It's an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Sometimes, I don't even want to put on makeup. And sometimes, I feel so unattractive and blah.

Certainly there’s a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they would be talking to Al Qaeda, that there would be some Al Qaeda there or that Saddam Hussein might even be, you know, discussing gee, I wonder since I don’t have any scuds and since the Americans are coming at me, I wonder if I could take advantage of Al Qaeda? How would I do it? Is it worth the risk? What could they do for me?

Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.

Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.

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

If you only sign the players of one FIFA agent, sometimes you can make the deal, sometimes you can't.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

We make movies and we all try our best and sometimes we connect with the audience, sometimes we don't.