S Quotes
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“Some want to see the Christian faith as a metaphor for something. How about sin – we nail ours to the cross and let it die in the sun.”
“Some want to turn the clock back, harkening back to some golden age of nostalgia, when women, children, the lower class, parishioners, and people of other races and creeds knew their place; not back to the 1950s, but further back: to Dickensian times and to (corporate) feudal fiefdom. They want to wind the clock back to a time before the hard-won battles for civil rights, social reforms, and worker representation. A time long, long before the “woke virus”, “illegal immigrants”, and gender identity, when life was more conservative and white lives mattered; though with a new, fundamentalist, Christian nationalist (or Islamist, or ultra-Zionist, or even atheist) and isolationist twist. And some will go to any lengths – and I do mean any desperate, violent, draconian lengths – to bring this vile and unholy vision about. [From Preface]”
Source: Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: A crash course in Psi-fi, Romantic idealism, depth psychology, the daemonic, and Resistance
“Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage.”
“Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after 50 years of brutal occupation, the three Baltic countries regained their independence, peacefully and with dignity. They chose hope over hate and showed the world that even through the darkest night, there is light. Please research it. Tell someone. These three tiny nations have taught us that love is the most powerful army. Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy - love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.”
“Some wars are fought with swords and shields; others are fought with silence, mirrors, and trembling hands.”
Source: Big Voice Within
“Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.”
“Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.”
“Some waste away their lives by drinking, partying or by simply having fun and living for pleasure.”
“Some waves will touch your shore; they have come from the sea, carrying messages from me to you.”
“Some waves will touch your shore; they have come from the sea, carrying messages from me to you. When these waves will reach your shore, you will be astonished at their beauty. They will be soft and sublime.
They will carry music - melodious pieces of songs of the sea. Listen well. Listen deep. They carry magic. Feel it with all your depth.”
“Some way some how i'm going to be happy i'm going to laugh i'm going to prosper,i feel good that i remain positive thru these mess up times!!!”
“some ways i’m made of magic…
i'm passionate & creative… i'm a dancer &
a writer, and i spill out all my feelings into
both of those things.
i'm adventurous & spontaneous…
maybe sometimes a little bit reckless…
but i can also be really brave, and i also
dream really big.
i love being a good friend… i'm supportive
& loyal & can hold space for any version of
them. and i'm silly & fun & i’m up for
anything. and i love my friends sooo much
and so deeply… like soulmates.
…and i think all of those things make
me kind of magical”
“Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.”
“Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It’s all just a use of your thinking.”
“Some we proudly display on our arms, while others we shyly conceal. Tattoo the moments of sorrow as well as the moments of splendor and beauty. Tattoo in an acknowledgment and tribute to home, and tattooing your beliefs that define who you are. Whether we intended to or not, every moment of our lives are tattooed to our heart.”
Source: Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
“Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.”
“Some wealthy men bought soccer teams; others acquired new wives or had their current ones rebuilt; some endowed hospitals or art galleries; it was Brunetti's destiny to live in a country where they began political parties.”
“Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.”
“Some websites accepted each quote we create”
“Some websites are completely optimized for simple conversion, and it’s easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb.”
Source: Just Enough Research
“Some wedges are great but you can look like your feet are encased in cement.”
“Some wee short hour ayont the twal.”
Source: The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry
“Some weekend afternoon when the sun-drenched scene outside the window seems unusually still and Dong-ho's profile fits into your mind, mighn't the thing flickering in front of your eyes be what they call a soul? In the early hours of the morning, when dreams you can't remember have left your cheeks wet and the contours of that face jolt into an abrupt clarity, mighn't that wavering be a soul's emergence?”
Source: Human Acts
“Some weeks, I'm super-duper busy, so I can only fit cardio in here and there, a lot of stuff happens in the afternoon, so I can get up and have a workout, which makes me feel awesome for the rest of my day. There's just something sexy about feeling strong. And every night I'm onstage, I get another workout.”
“Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake' d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.”
“Some well-meaning folks think if we stop talking about racism, it’ll magically disappear, like the smell of an errant fart. But like a fart, people might try to be polite and ignore it, but everyone knows it’s there. Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going wrong only makes matters worse. It’s like someone breaks your arm, and the person who slammed the baseball bat into it is saying, 'The only reason it won’t heal is because you keep complaining that it hurts.' How about you get me a cast so the bone can set straight again? America does not want to put the effort into providing this cast. This is why we must talk about race, and we must do it openly.”
Source: I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
“Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Some well-to-do parents may say, "I have a right to have as many children as I want because I can take care of them." That may be so, but can the Earth take care of them?”
“Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.”
“Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
Source: Doctors: A Novel
“Some were filled with pride. Some were filled with hope. Some were filled rage. But all of them screamed”
Source: 進撃の巨人 18 [Shingeki no Kyojin 18]
“Some were getting married; some were getting divorced. People were in different places, but you had enough time on this earth to actually get somewhere, and I think that's the exciting thing about being 36 and in your mid-30s. You've been somewhere, and you're going to go somewhere. It's fun; it's exciting.”
“Some were made ugly for seeing the ugliness of people, whereas the pure saw beauty and were made beautiful.”
“Some were made with skill and intelligence
Some with passion and charm
But they, they were raw, and strived to remain so…”
“Some were only there to see and be seen. Some to watch the fall. People love free booze and a car crash.”
Source: Burning Man
“Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.”
Source: The Nearest Exit
“Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering sure I swallowed a couple”
“Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.”
“Some Western commentators claim that they know Islam better than the (......) who gave up their lives for it, the crowds that have been supporting them, and the imams endorsing the attacks.”
Source: Mass Insanity
“Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic front. I would like to know what it is they have in mind exactly: action by a fifth column, this disparate bunch of 'national traitors', or are they hoping to put us in a worsening social and economic situation so as to provoke public discontent? We consider such statements irresponsible and clearly aggressive in tone, and we will respond to them accordingly.”
“Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.”
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
“Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.”
Source: Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
“Some White people do not identify as White for the same reason they identify as not-racist: to avoid reckoning with the ways that Whiteness—even as a construction and mirage—has informed their notions of America and identity and offered them privilege, the primary one being the privilege of being inherently normal, standard, and legal. It is a racial crime to be yourself if you are not White in America. It is a racial crime to look like yourself or empower yourself if you are not White. I guess I became a criminal at seven years old.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Some white people don't assume people of color to be dynamic or layered, because many white people have never had to be dynamic or layered themselves.”
Source: The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.”
“Some whites, who had never really understood, were offended by this sudden death of their role as the “good white leading the poor black out of the jungle.” Many of these were among the saddest people of our time, good-hearted whites who had dedicated themselves to helping black people become imitation whites, to “bringing them up to our level,” without ever realizing what a deep insult this attitude can be.”
Source: Black Like Me
“Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.”
Source: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
“Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.”
“Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.”