S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.”
Source: The Magic Word
“Something must be going on deep in his subconscious, he thought, some kind of redecoration, refurbishment, reupholstering that required a lot of downtime - some shadowy application running in the background, performing unknown operations, consuming huge chunks of psychic ram.”
“Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight”
“Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.”
Source: America and the young intellectual
“Something must be said for childhood favourites where, as adults, we take a bite and are instantly transported back to lunch in Nana's kitchen or a family Christmas dinner. We find fondness in home-cooked, comfort food where the 'comfort' is mostly reminiscence.”
Source: Appetito: The Life, Soul and Tastes of Italian Home Cooking
“Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight”
“Something must die so that others can live.”
“something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!”
“Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.”
“Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.”
“Something must have gone awry with the programming. I have no idea where or when we are.”
Source: The Balance of Time
“Something my dad says...He says you end up marrying the one you don't understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.”
Source: Anxious People
“Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.”
“Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.”
“Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.”
“Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered”
Source: The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every
“Something needn't be large to be good.”
Source: Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
“Something needs to shift,' you cry.
'I can't deal with it the way it is.'
If something needs to shift,
shift something.
Anything.
Even something that doesn't work
will cause action, and in action
you will figure out more than
when you are stuck...
When you're stuck...
it's hard to get moving again.
When you feel like you can't move,
any movement will shake things up.”
“Something new came into my life that night - terror. And it still lives with me now.”
“Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?”
“Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.”
“Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.”
“Something new prowled these floors, something that sucked the space into its lungs and pressed up against people's eyeballs. She felt the darkness and told herself she could walk away from it, forgetting how difficult it is to run from that which you cannot see coming.”
Source: The Wake Up
“Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.”
“Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.”
Source: Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers
“something not entirely right. But without options beyond what’s expected and with a deep desire for approval, one does what one sees.
At least, that is what one does until one no longer can.”
“Something now leaves me; something goes from me to meet that figure who is coming, and assures me that I know him before I see who it is. How curiously one is changed by the addition, even at a distance, of a friend. How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us. Yet how painful to be recalled, to be mitigated, to have one's self adulterated, mixed up, become part of another. As he approaches I become not myself but Neville mixed with somebody - with whom? - with Bernard? Yes, it is Bernard, and it is to Bernard that I shall put the question, Who am I?”
Source: The Waves
“Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.”
“Something of calumny always sticks.”
“Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.”
“Something of eternal significance transpired there.
Not only was the calendar of the world changed,
but heaven itself and eternity were affected.”
“Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“Something of greater import, I think, is to say I’m blessed in infinitely many ways. But sometimes I just don’t see it.”
Source: Thrills and Chills: Trudging Through Life
“Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.”
“Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.”
Source: Power: A New Social Analysis
“Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.”
Source: The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
“Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.”
Source: Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways
“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Something old represents continuity. Something new offers optimism for the future. Something borrowed symbolizes borrowed happiness. And something blue stands for purity, love, and fidelity.”
“Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two eyes met, as had theirs here at the well... It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels though time.”
Source: The Alchemist
“Something once lost will never return”
“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
“Something ought to be said for those who see beyond what most cannot, and this most precious opportunity happens the moment when ones personal value begins blossoming its perfect absolute.”
Source: Guided Transformation
“Something out of nothing, she thought. The perfect parallel to pregnancy.”
Source: The End of Miracles
“Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut—spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.”
“Something passes between us that I'm pretty sure both of us can feel, even though neither one of us says anything. It's not even any kind of attraction, even though I've been feeling that on and off all night. This is something different.We have a secret now. A secret from Ava.”
Source: Sometimes It Happens
“Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the first time in a decade, it is the Democratic candidates, not the Republican ones, who are fodder for late-night comics. That the Democrats are committing gaffes and causing scandals at a higher rate than Republicans not only may be decisive in the battle for the Senate. It could signal a change in our politics at large.”
“Something pink? Something with extra Vitamin B? Vitamin B12? B13? Just the number of things with different types of Vitamin B in them was an embarrassment of choice itself. There were powders as well as oils, tubes of gel, even packets of some kind of pungent -smelling seed that was meant to be good for some obscure part of you in some arcane way.”
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Something potent, something that fused them together, that made her beginning entwine with his end, passed between them. He'd marked her his.
And she didn't want to fight it.”
Source: Veiled Target