S Quotes
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“Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.”
“Some underwears seem to have been designed to be a turn-off.”
“Some unholy fake godmen and the fake priests have trained your mind to fear God, but God understands only love. You are ignorant and immature if you unnecessarily invest your time in such unholy beliefs.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.”
“Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most likely to occur in our grandchildren's lifetime. I'm a proud conservative, and I reject that kind of live-for-today, 'me generation,' attitude. It is unworthy of us and incompatible with our reputation as visionaries and problem solvers. Americans have never feared change. We make change work for us.”
“Some use "ambiguity" as their native language and prefer to hide behind a veil of para-social intrigue or deceit. They readily apply a strategy of a condescendingly friendly approach. Still, as we can capture arresting signals that urge us to defuse a dire threat of besiegement, we can decipher any shrouded or manipulative intentions and steer clear of unforeseen pitfalls. ("Finally things had lost their weightiness")”
“Some used drugs to silence the pain, others used them to feel the pain they silenced.”
Source: LA on LSD
“Some valuable lessons are disguised as an inconvenience. Don't miss out on them.”
“Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.”
“Some vampires wouldn't react if you shoved a rosary down their pants, though I wouldn't recommend testing the theory.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“Some vegetables are preceded by large carrots.”
“Some venues are more intimidating than others, but as professional players you enjoy the intimidating places more than the other kind.”
“Some version of this story has repeated itself throughout the world over the last century. A cast of political outsiders, including Adolf Hitler, Getulio Vargas in Brazil, Alberto Fujimori in Peru, and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, came to power on the same path: from the inside, via elections or alliances with powerful political figures. In each instance, elites believed the invitation to power would contain the outsider, leading to a restoration of control by mainstream politicians. But their plans backfired. A lethal mix of ambition, fear, and miscalculation conspired to lead them to the same fateful mistake: willingly handing over the keys of power to an autocrat-in-the-making.
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If a charismatic outsider emerges on the scene, gaining popularity as he challenges the old order, it is tempting for establishment politicians who feel their control is unraveling to try to co-opt him. … And then, establishment politicians hope, the insurgent can be redirected to support their own program. This sort of devil’s bargain often mutates to the benefit of the insurgent …”
Source: How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
“Some versions of me handled it better. None of them were real.”
“Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.”
“Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.”
“Some very common foods and drinks are aversive. Few people enjoy, at first, coffee, beer, tobacco, or chili pepper. Pleasure from pain is uniquely human. No other animal willingly eats such foods when there are alternatives. Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans—language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.”
Source: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
“Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.”
Source: Zero History
“Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!”
“Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her depiction of Ladislaw--that she fell in love with her own creation in a way that shows a lack of artistic control and is even unseemly, like a hoary movie director whose lens lingers too long on the young flesh of a favored actress. Lord David Cecil calls Ladislaw 'a schoolgirl's dream, and a vulgar one at that,' while Leslie Stephen complained 'Ladislaw is almost obtrusively a favorite with his creator,' and depreciated him as 'an amiable Bohemian.”
Source: My Life in Middlemarch
“Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.”
“Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.”
“Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.”
“Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.”
Source: Aristotle: Selections
“Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.”
Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion
“Some victims are valued more in the eyes of the American media than others.”
Source: Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
“Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing”
Source: And I Darken
“Some victories come when some people decide to abandon you. While it may seem like rejection, it is a victory making its way to you.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Some victories didn't taste as sweet as they should”
Source: Falling Kingdoms
“Some view mental illness as a purely spiritual issue and deny the need for medication or other forms of treatment. Others view it as an illness with no spiritual aspect. I believe it's a combination of both.”
“Some view taking risks as a deterrent. To those people, I say you will never reach your objectives if you are scared to pursue them.”
“Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.”
“Some villains, like Archex had been as Captain Cardinal, were conflicted, and Vi could carefully twist the key inside them until something clicked open. Some villains were just straight-up evil---like anyone with the last name Hux.”
Source: Black Spire
“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.”
“Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.”
“Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked about. I think I belong in the latter category.”
“Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."”
Source: Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
“Some voices are not loud. They don’t ask for attention. They wait quietly, hoping someone will finally listen”
Source: Voices Behind the Silence
“Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.”
Source: The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself. Together with humorous, moral and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. Among which are several not in any American edition
“Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.”
Source: Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
“Some walks you have to take alone.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“Some Wall Street bro in a slim suit was trying to talk up Elise, making the kind of googly eyes that would have sent even Cupid running for a trash can to vomit in...”
Source: History Lessons
“Some walls aren't meant to be broken, just leaned on until they choose to open.”
“Some walls were built by others, while some were of our own making. The hardest to escape were those we chose to remain behind of our own will.”
Source: Immortal
“Some wanderings and stumbles carry hidden mercy, leading us home along paths of grace.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Some want more than they need and others need more than what they want. That is why we have so many greedy people who cannot share with the poor.”
“Some want prayer in school, some want condoms.
Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.”
“Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.”
Source: Your Words Will Sharpen
“Some want to live within the sound
Of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue shop,
Within a yard of hell.”