"As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off."
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"Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself."
"I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move."
"Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there."
"It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people."
"Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God."
"being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right."
"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."
"Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail."
"Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live."
"Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it."
"I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this."
"Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young."
"Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must."
"Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye."
"sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet."
"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."
"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient."
"Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut."
"I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience."