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Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
Robert Orben

True, Deep, Feeling

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Death, May, After

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift

Men, Strength, Few

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.
Haile Gebrselassie

School, Down, Rainy

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf

Dreams, Truth, Top

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
Carl Sandburg

Through, Wild, Fly

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
J. K. Rowling

Dark, Walk, Side

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy

Greatest, Decision, Else

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.
Blanka Vlasic

Future, Person, Stronger

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
Alice Walker

Write, Reading, Longer

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage, Grace, Dinner

If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
Jennifer Lopez

Time, Strong, Long

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
E. O. Wilson

Wrong, Profound, Concept

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Arthur C. Clarke

Alone, Universe, Idea

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
Bob Feller

Heaven, Ball, Clean

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
Marilyn Manson

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
Caroline Kennedy

Christmas, Kids, Effort

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik

Beauty, Game, Everything

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
Tom Stoppard

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
Hedy Lamarr

Women, Men, Find

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
Jack White

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Alone, Thought, Either

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
Stephen Fry

Saying, May, High

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Life, Remember, Again

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker

Society, Loneliness, Vision

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Philip K. Dick

Reality, Insane, Response

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James M. Barrie

Past, Find, Often

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.
Jose Mourinho

Beautiful, Ugly, Brains

Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'
Rebecca Romijn

Good, Tired, Sleep

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa Cather

Single, Dark, Another

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