S Quotes
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“Someone will pull you from the fire, someone else wrap you in flame.
-The Givens”
Source: Mortal Trash: Poems
“Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate Jews? Or am I just being paranoid?”
“Someone willfully caused a Fight in which one Person had no Chance — was it the wrong or the right Enemy/Opponent/Victim?”
“Someone wise told me recently that Adulting was hard. My response: TRUE STORY”
“Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.”
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?
...Religion closes off the central questions of existence by attempting to dissuade us from further enquiry by asserting that we cannot ever hope to comprehend. We are, religion asserts, simply too puny. Through fear of being shown to be vacuous, religion denies the awesome power of human comprehension. It seeks to thwart, by encouraging awe in things unseen, the disclosure of the emptiness of faith. Religion, in contrast to science, deploys the repugnant view that the world is too big for our understanding. Science, in contrast to religion, opens up the great questions of being to rational discussion, to discussion with the prospect of resolution and elucidation. Science, above all, respects the power of the human intellect. Science is the apotheosis of the intellect and the consummation of the Renaissance. Science respects more deeply the potential of humanity than religion ever can.”
Source: Nature's imagination: the frontiers of scientific vision
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?”
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking.”
“Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who try to suspend judgement. Now contemplate epistemic humility. Think of someone heavily introspective, tortured by the awareness of his own ignorance. He lacks the courage of the idiot, yet has the rare guts to say "I don't know." He does not mind looking like a fool or, worse, an ignoramus. He hesitates, he will not commit, and he agonizes over the consequences of being wrong. He introspects, introspects, and introspects until he reaches physical and nervous exhaustion.
This does not necessarily mean he lacks confidence, only that he holds his own knowledge to be suspect. I will call such a person an epistemocrat; the province where the laws are structured with this kind of human fallibility in mind I will can an epistemocracy.”
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.”
Source: The City of Dreaming Books
“Someone with genuine self-esteem understands that self-fulfillment is not about self-satisfaction.”
Source: Humility Rules: Saint Benedict's Twelve-Step Guide to Genuine Self-Esteem
“Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy." -Gai Sensei: Naruto Episode 196”
“Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.”
“Someone with no shape
came suddenly in my life’s noon
and grabbing with trembling hands
asked me, lost on my own footpath
walking endlessly
as far as the memory goes,
and asked—
whose city is this?”
“Someone with real face needs no external validation, they just own their dreams with absolute belief.”
“Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.”
“Someone would have to be out of their mind not to come back to you. I walked through a blizzard to get here.”
Source: Warrior's Cross
“Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.”
Source: The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
“Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.”
“Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human rights violators and ethnic cleansers, just below the Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin league. But people don't care. Trump goes on Jimmy Fallon's show and that spineless puff of a talk show host praises Trump for being such an "off the cuff" talker and providing "fresh air." Fresh air! What's fresh about racism? it comes out of the darkest dankest rottenest human cellar!”
“Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!”
“Someone you haven't met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.”
“Someone you know may tell you "Why are you stressing out about it? My situation is worse" . But really, the truth is that everyone has their own struggles. Struggles are not something that can be compared.”
“Someone: ...you know what? Practical jokes about someone isn't funny and is a form of bullying and abuse.
Me: Yeah! But you know what? It's not that hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”
“Someone you want to cook for more than anyone else.
Someone special.
Someone you want to dedicate the best food you've ever made to...
forever.
I think that special someone...
"I'm home! How ya been, Nakiri?"
"Welcome home.
Well?
I made time in my busy schedule to be here, Yukihira. Don't you have anything else to say to me?"
Oh yeah, sure. Thanks.
You won't believe this recipe, though. It's amazing!"
"Sheesh. It's always recipes with you."
But... it's strange.
Somewhere along the line...
...I've come to look forward to tasting your dishes...
To look forward...
... to seeing you.”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 36 [Shokugeki no Souma 36]
“Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.”
“Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus. So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it's gay activists or now a New Testament professor.”
“Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.”
“Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.”
“Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully.”
“Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way.”
“Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.”
“Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.”
“Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.”
“Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?”
“Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "”
“Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.”
“Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
“Someone's opinion of you isn't reality... unless you decide to allow it!! You are who God says you are!!!”
“Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.”
“someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.”
“Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.”
“Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.”
Source: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn
“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us”
Source: Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho
“Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.”
Source: Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki
“Someone, or some group in George W. Bush administration, took 300 million people to war against their will, based on a very giant lie. Combined with the notion of winning, that is, to me, a horrendously scary situation.”
“Someone, somewhere has a better idea.”
Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader
“Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete.”