S Quotes
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“Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.”
“Some players, they have all their licks memorized. They think about what they're going to play, but I try to think about what not to play. Tone and phrasing, that's what's important - less is more. The feeling, that's the thing.”
“Some plays are best shared with others, while some are best enjoyed alone.”
“Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?”
“Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, ... He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus the lives of black people.”
“Some poems are art because of their passion.”
“some poems froth
and foam and rise...
out of my morning cup of
mist-sweetened coffee.”
Source: Turquoise Silence
“Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to be met by a snarling dog at the gate. Still others want to smother you with their sticky charms.”
“Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.”
“Some poems write themselves.”
“Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.”
“Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.”
Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
“Some poets travel to distant lands and bring back exotic sights and smells. But others go to witness turmoil or violence, to be at the center of political or social change and to bring back the news — not as journalists do, but shaped through language and image in ways that awaken our sensibilities and our emotions ["Yahya Frederickson in Yemen: The Gold of the Wayfarer," The Millions, December 5, 2014].”
“Some police departments are overwhelmed by the massive number of complaints being filed against them.”
“Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.That would do it every time.”
“Some police officers are nice and others, not so much.”
“Some police officers have turned out to be serial killers.”
“Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign; some make a small mistake but they immediately resign! What makes a political leader to resign or not to resign has something to do with having an honour or not! Those who have honour always choose the honourable way: Resignation!”
“Some political parties think being a politicians is about being corrupt. So they made corruption their mandate. The more corrupt you are . The more they will promote you to higher positions. The more they feel you are one of their own. You don't stand a chance or have a say if you are not corrupt within the party.”
“Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955
“Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.”
“Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!”
“Some politicians are scared of Putin and some are extremely apologetic, actually. And I feel very sorry for this because some people who are like my friends from the left flank, they praise Putin because they see him as the fighter against American imperialism, which he is not. You know, why would you select between American imperialism and Russian imperialism? To my mind, it's exactly the same thing.”
“Some politicians just want positions . They don't care about serving people. That is why they are changing different parties. It is not about integrity but is about the positions they had been promised.”
“Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas.”
“Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side”
“Some poor little person who’s shaking with fear
That he’ll blow in the pool! He’s no way to steer!
I’ll just have to save him. Because, after all,
A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
Source: Horton Hears a Who!
“Some poor soul has been living a nightmare.”
Source: The Doomsday Butcher
“Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.”
Source: Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest
“Some populist movements claim adherence to the ideals of modern science and to the traditions of skeptical empiricism. They tell people that indeed you should never trust any institutions or figures of authority—including self-proclaimed populist parties and politicians. Instead, you should “do your own research” and trust only what you can directly observe by yourself. This radical empiricist position implies that while large-scale institutions like political parties, courts, newspapers, and universities can never be trusted, individuals who make the effort can still find the truth by themselves.
This approach may sound scientific and may appeal to free-spirited individuals, but it leaves open the question of how human communities can cooperate to build health-care systems or pass environmental regulations, which demand large-scale institutional organization. Is a single individual capable of doing all the necessary research to decide whether the earth’s climate is heating up and what should be done about it? How would a single person go about collecting climate data from throughout the world, not to mention obtaining reliable records from past centuries? Trusting only “my own research” may sound scientific, but in practice it amounts to believing that there is no objective truth. As we shall see in chapter 4, science is a collaborative institutional effort rather than a personal quest.”
Source: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton
“Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.”
“Some powers come more easily to others, but Matthew rocks at reading energies.”
“What?” I set my fork back down. “Our biology teacher is an alien? Holy crap…all I can think of is that movie The Faculty.” Dee choked on her orange juice. “We don’t snatch bodies.”
I hoped not.”
Source: Obsidian
“Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.”
“Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way.”
“Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy”
“Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.”
“Some pray to marry the man they love,
My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry.”
“Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.”
“Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.”
“Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.”
Source: If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer
“Some prayers are lived, not spoken.”
“Some prayers have contributed so much in teaching men how to complain and whine to God instead of doing things themselves. Thus, they have become idle and expecting more than their abilities can ever achieve.”
“Some prayers will be answered quickly, but others will require that you put up a fight.”
Source: CALLED to Pray: 52 Devotions & Prayers for Women
“Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.”
“Some prejudices and fallacies of the human mind are understandable on a theoretical basis, but practically impossible to implement. As matters now stand, I have little choice but to recognize myself as possessing a personal state of conscious awareness and presupposing that my active state of mental awareness constitutes a personal identity. Acknowledgement of my ignorance begins with the opening admission that the concept of a self delineates the most that I will ever understand in life. Although it might be a spectacular illusion to perceive the self as the unchanging nucleus at the center of my being, from a human evolutionary standpoint and to develop and carryout strategies necessary for personal survival it is a useful illusion. Belief in a self allows a person to integrate streams of information and resolve conflicts between competing values and goals. Absence of a self-identity and devoid of the specific goal of seeking personal self-realization, would not only jeopardize human survival on a daily bases, but it would render life utterly meaningless, making a person’s ontological existence a triviality. Lacking a philosophical status of fundamental ontological event, human life would be a windowless absurdity. A person must perceive oneself as an actual entity in physical Minkowski space, not merely as a philosophical concept in order to engage in the necessary activities to perpetuate personal existence and import meaning to personal efforts. Accordingly, I elect to perceive the self as an actual entity, not as a mere abstraction, composed of a single, definite set of well-defined ontological criteria. Self-perception guides future behavioral choices, frame intellectual inquires, and the evolution of the self represents the ultimate level of personal achievement in pursuit of my goal of attaining self-realization.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Some preliminaries (page 17)
Moreover, like the storytellers of old, although you will invariably be telling your story to someone who knows quite a bit about it already, you are expected to present it as if it had never been heard before, spelling out the details and assuming little knowledge of the area on the part of your audience.”
Source: Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology
“Some preliminaries (page 18)
INTRODUCTION
What you did
Why you did it
METHOD
How you did it
RESULTS
What you found (including details of how the data were analyzed)
DISCUSSION
What you think it shows
Figure 1.3 Where the information in Figure 1.1 should appear in the report”
Source: Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology
“Some preliminaries (page 18)
METHOD
-- DESIGN
-- SUBJECTS
-- APPARATUS and/or MATERIALS
-- PROCEDURE
Figure 1.4 The sub-sections of the METHOD”
Source: Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology