„If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.“

„We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.“

—  Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

Source: I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

„If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.“

—  Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862

Source: I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

„In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.“

—  Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890

„Sometimes we like a book, sometimes we prefer music. Sometimes we want to sing out with hundreds, sometimes only whisper with a few. Sometimes we want to say it with words, sometimes with a deep silence.“

—  Henri Nouwen Dutch priest and writer 1932 - 1996

With Open Hands (1972)
Context: Only within this kind of life does a spoken prayer make sense. A prayer in church, at table or in school is only a witness to what we want to make of our entire lives. Such a prayer reminds us that praying is living and it invites us to make this an ever-greater reality. Thus, there are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life. Sometimes we seek out a quiet spot and want to be alone, sometimes we look for a friend and want to be together. Sometimes we like a book, sometimes we prefer music. Sometimes we want to sing out with hundreds, sometimes only whisper with a few. Sometimes we want to say it with words, sometimes with a deep silence.

„We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, book All Quiet on the Western Front

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front

„If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma, are sometimes consoling.“

—  Simon Blackburn British academic philosopher 1944

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 117

„Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.“

—  Thomas Chalmers Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland 1780 - 1847

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 602.

„We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.“

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951

Attributed from posthumous publications

„Take me someplace where we can be silent together.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert American writer 1969

Source: The Signature of All Things

„Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.“

—  T.S. Eliot 20th century English author 1888 - 1965

„Our love is old, our lives are old,
And death shall come amain;
Should it come today, what man may say
We shall not live again?“

—  Langdon Smith, Evolution

Evolution (1895; 1909)

„Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.“

—  Stephen King, book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

„What shall we do now? the big knife is coming on us and we shall all be killed. Now we must fight or we are done.“

—  Cornstalk Native American in the American Revolution 1720 - 1777

Cornstalk to Shawnee council after the Battle of Point Pleasant (October 1774), as quoted in I Have Spoken : American History through the voices of the Indians‎ (1971) by Virginia Irving Armstrong, p. 27
Variant: Let us kill all our women and children, and go fight till we die.
As quoted in Best Little Stories from Virginia‎ (2003) by C. Brian Kelly, p. 74
Context: What shall we do now? the big knife is coming on us and we shall all be killed. Now we must fight or we are done. Then let us kill all our women and children and go fight until we die? I shall go and make peace!

„When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.“

—  Louise Rennison British writer 1951 - 2016

Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

„Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets, lies, stories. We all tell them. Sometimes, because we hope to entertain. Sometimes, because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.“

—  Jodi Picoult, book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

„For the present we have journeyed far enough together, and it is time to part.“

—  James Frazer, book The Golden Bough

Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 69, Farewell to Nemi.

„A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.“

—  Robert F. Kennedy American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy 1925 - 1968

Speech in the United States Senate (9 May 1966)

„A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.“

—  John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963

Robert F. Kennedy, in a speech in the US Senate (9 May 1966)
Misattributed

„I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.“

—  Bram Stoker, book Dracula

Source: Dracula