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“A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.”
“A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.”
“A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)”
“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”
“A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.”
Source: The Complete Fawlty Towers
“A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.”
“A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong.”
Source: Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance
“A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.”
“A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.”
“A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.”
Source: The essence of Hinduism
“A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.”
Source: Collected Works
“A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding.”
Source: Collected Works: (1918:Aug.-1919:Jul.)
“A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.”
“A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.”
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.”
“A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.”
“A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.”
“A Satyagrahi obeys the laws of society intelligently and of his own free will, because he considers it to be his sacred duty to do so. It is only when a person has thus obeyed the laws of society scrupulously that he is in a position to judge as to which particular rules are good and just and which unjust and iniquitous. Only then does the right accrue to him of the civil disobedience of certain laws in well defined circumstances.”
Source: The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography
“A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.”
Source: The Indian States' Problem
“A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.”
“A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.”
Source: Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)
“A satyagrahi, whilst he is ever ready to fight, must be equally eager for peace.”
“A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their cameras toward the UFO.... I had chance to hold (the film) up to the window. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt in my mind that it was made someplace other than on this earth.”
“A saudade não volta.
Aprende a ficar.”
Source: Saudade
“A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.”
“A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life, and a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, say, or a cathedral, or myself”
Source: Steppenwolf
“A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.”
“A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!”
“A savage sense entered me, of being of such small account in the world that I wasn't to be helped, that priest and woman and man had put out an edict that I wasn't to be helped, I was to be left to the elements, just as I was, a walking animal, forsaken.
Maybe it was then that some part of me leapt away from myself, something fled from my brain, I don't know.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“A savage with grace so calm and innocent and texture laced mystery that brought desire. He moved as his own while you followed along; and as he soothed your skin, you questioned your walls just to tremble at his.”
“A savant, by definition, is somebody who has a disability and, along with that disability, has some remarkable ability. Prodigies and geniuses have the remarkable abilities that the savant shows, but they do not have a disability. So, by definition, a savant includes someone with a disability, and a prodigy or genius are people who have these remarkable skills but they do not have a disability.”
“A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.”
“A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the result of spiritual illumination to see those facts for what they really are: a revelation of the truth and glory of God in the face of Christ-who is the same yesterday today and forever.”
“A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.”
Source: THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP
“A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.”
“A Savvy Turtle investor trains their occupants to do everything from paying rent on time, upkeep, scheduled maintenance, self-betterment etc”
“A Savvy Turtle will always win any Rabbit race”
“A Savvy Turtle will use their haters to build a ladder to climb over any obstacle every time, don’t be afraid to use your haters for your benefit”
“A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests.”
“A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.”
“A saúde da mente depende do que ele se alimenta. Evite pensamentos e conversas que matam a alma”
Source: A Grande Pérola da Sabedoria
“A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.”
“A scalp is the pocket of the universe.”
Source: Plotless
“A scant hour's worth of silent despair, that was the last grace left to us as humans.”
Source: Human Acts
“A scar, a slash; will live forever...
Before you catch the chisel! Before engrave!
Think! Think twice; until the death…”
Source: Roxanne
“A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
Source: Little Bee: A Novel
“A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.”