A Quotes
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“A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.”
“A sneer is the weapon of the weak.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.”
“A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.”
“A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.”
“A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.”
“A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.”
“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.”
“A snow year, a rich year.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“A snow yeare, a rich yeare.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A snowball formed between her palms, surrounded by a blue glow. "Ready?" she asked, feeling the rush she got when she was about to use magic. She threw her hands up and flung the snowball high into the air. Snow started to fall from the ceiling, washing the floor in a blanket of white.
"This is amazing!" Anna marveled, her giggles of joy filling Elsa with pride. Anna, more than anyone else, loved Elsa's gift, and she begged her to use it often. Their parents, on the other hand, wanted her to keep it private. But if a gift like this could bring such joy, shouldn't she share it?”
Source: Conceal, Don't Feel
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.”
Source: Midsummer Snowballs
“A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.”
“A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.”
Source: Anatomy of Criticism
“A so-called man of God who would not embrace the personality of Jesus in all of its ramifications has no business in the Kingdom business.”
Source: Wells of inspiration: Sage's Secret
“A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.”
“A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.”
“A so-called news organization called the Denver Guardian - which, by the way, doesn't exist - wrote an article and pushed it on social media that said that the pope had endorsed Donald Trump. That's the perfect definition of fake news. It was intentionally designed to deceive.”
“A soaking rain had just stopped, and his boots sank deeply into the nitrogen-rich soil. The entire orchard smelled of wet wood and ripe fruit. It was a strong dizzying scent, and nothing else was quite like it- though his grandfather used to say this smell was identical to the limestone caves of Lower Normandy: cold and dripping, where cask upon cask of Calvados, the great fortified apple brandy of Norman lords, slept away the years.”
Source: The Orchard
“A soap marker offered cruelty-free soap, because nothing is worse than showerin with cruel soap.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
“A soap opera character on the bar TV says, "You killed him, you smothered him with doughnuts!" Another character, another scene--she is sitting in a room with a man and an elderly woman--the leas character wonders if she's dead. The man says, No, you're alive," and the other woman hands her a plate of doughnuts.
A commercial comes on. A couple are on a date and the woman's voice-over articulates interior thoughts of what a wonderful guy her friend has set her up with: "He's so cute, and his IQ is higher than my bank balance . . . but she didn't tell me he has . . . Tourette's syndrome.”
Source: Bicycle Diaries
“A sob caught in my chest. I didn't even know what a gray was, other than a drab color. All I knew was that I was hungry all the time. And I knew, deep down, that it wasn't just for food.”
“A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing.”
“A sob threatens to rip through my chest, but before I can speak another word, he kisses me again and I melt into him. His lips are a promise fulfilled, and a glimpse of adventure-filled days to come.”
Source: Dream On
“A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.”
“A sober outlook on life makes someone drunk.”
“A sober person who has a kind, soft, and sensitive heart, does not look at people's behaviour of stupidity, insulting, joking and cheating, just helps to give, and provides them only the right and moral way of life that leads, to reach honour, pleasure, and happiness”
“A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men of extreme, illogical views will interpret 'God's will' in eccentric fashion. Kindly, charitable, generous men will interpret 'God's will' according to their character.”
“A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?”
“A sobrecarga cognitiva crónica que caracteriza tantas das nossas vidas parece diminuir o nosso nível de domínio de nós mesmos. Quanto maiores as exigências sobre a nossa atenção, ao que parece, mais fracos somos a resistir às tentações.”
Source: Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
“A sobrevivência é a capacidade de nadar em águas estranhas”
Source: DUNE
“A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.”
“a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.”
“A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.”
“A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.”
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
“A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect”
Source: What Matters Now. -
“A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.”
“A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.”
“A social environment that is conducive to false accusations could lead us to people being falsely accused of falsely accusing others.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations.”
“A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.”
“A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.”
“A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?”
Source: Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
“A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.”
“A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”
Source: Ideology: An Introduction
“A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.”