Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes (14 August 1875)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Context: My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do... I am too far along in experience and years both for this business. I do not go into [it] with the zest of old times. Races, baseball, and politics are for the youngsters.
“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
On striking a balance between traditional and contemporary issues in “Lila Downs Reminds Us of the Strength Women Bring to Latin America and its History” https://sheshredsmag.com/lila-downs-14/ in She Shreds (2018 May 3)
Music and culture
“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.”
As quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1942) by H. L. Mencken
“Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored”
“Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.”
[199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.”
Source: Blacklisted
“For sometimes Christ speaks in the name of the Head alone … sometimes in the name of His body”
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p. 419
Context: In order to understand the Scriptures, it is absolutely necessary to know the whole, complete Christ, that is, Head and members. For sometimes Christ speaks in the name of the Head alone … sometimes in the name of His body, which is the holy Church spread over the entire earth. And we are in His body … and we hear ourselves speaking in it, for the Apostle tells us: “We are members of His body” (Eph. 5:30). In many places does the Apostle tell us this.
[Often my characters—a Jesus, a Hector, a Gloria—will be bilingual, or if not bilingual at least know enough Spanish to throw words and phrases into conversation.]
On his characters being bilingual in “In-depth Written Interview with Gary Soto” https://www.teachingbooks.net/interview.cgi?a=1&id=47 in Teaching Books (2007 Aug 29)
