"Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing."
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"Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth."
"Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing"
"Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious."
"Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them."
"Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling."
"You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon."
"There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all."
"I find that sometimes if you just sit still, things have a way of finding you before you can find them."
"I have no relationships and I'm, like, sad sometimes."
"This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out."
"God has always opened one door after another. Sometimes you think all the doors are closed and just when you think that, a door opens."
"Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while."
"Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind."
"See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin"
"I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes."
"Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself."
"My stuff is my stuff. Sometimes it's not as successful as some of the other stuff. But it's my stuff."
"Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly."
"Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back."