It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Eric Hoffer

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out.
John Maynard Keynes

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.
Layne Staley

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.
Gertrude Stein

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
Truman Capote

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Hippocrates

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell

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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank Zappa

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

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.
Adam Sandler

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Barry Goldwater