S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial confirmation process are not litmus paper and a calculator.”
“Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.”
“Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a better source of information than any score regarding the wine's style and personality, its quality level relative to its peers, and its relative value and aging potential.”
“Scores give better decision than judges.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Scores of boys would line the road outside the college to eye the girls. Family and friends remember me wrapping the chadar methodically around myself, so no one could catch even the slightest glimpse of me. I believed all men were horrible perverts.”
Source: Reham Khan
“Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.”
“Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behaviour. As a matter of fact, it is easier to hide one’s addiction while maintaining a high-powered position compared to the addicts and alcoholics we see sleeping on street corners.”
Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
“Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military Alliance Meeting.' Of course, these people are no longer Iraqi, they have no military, and there is no alliance. But they did have a meeting.”
“Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.”
“Scoring a goal is almost like kissing. The more you do it, the more you want. I wanted to keep scoring until it hurt.”
Source: Furia
“Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.”
“Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.”
“Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.”
“Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.”
“Scoring high in procreation, got an A studying female anatomy.”
“Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.”
“Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that.”
“Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.”
Source: Going Bovine
“Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.”
“Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil. Be very cheerful and humble yourself as much as you can. Ordinarily, God allows these things to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy humility.”
“Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.”
“Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.”
Source: The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere,: with the notes of all the various commentators; printed complete from the best editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens
“Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Scorning to raise hand to the portal himself, possibly under the conviction that it was not fitting for a man to have to knock at the door of his own house, he tried the knob, found it unlocked, and entered. There was on the inside the distinctive and not unpleasant—and in this case enchanting—aroma a new house has, of freshly planed wood, the astringent turpentine in paint, window putty, and several other less identifiable ingredients.”
Source: Waltz into Darkness
“Scorpio heavy placements indicate sociopathic tendencies, whereas 8th House heavy placements indicate psychopathic ones. Yet, both placements have extreme tendencies of healing both the self and others in a deep transformative way.”
“Scorpio, setting . . . Sagittarius, Capricornus; ah, there, here they were, after all, in their right places, their configurations all at once right, recognised, their pure geometry scintillating, flawless. And to-night as five thousand years ago they would rise and set: Capricorn, Aquarius, with, beneath, lonely Fomalhaut; Pisces; and the Ram; Taurus, with Aldebaran and the Pleiades.”
Source: Under the Volcano
“Scorpio women, learn to embrace your intense and passionate nature. You are meant to feel more profoundly than the average person. You are the epitome of transformation, death, and rebirth. Rising from the ashes and exerting the divine energy of the Phoenix. You are powerful.”
“Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set the scorpion on up in the sky. I'm not ruthless. I merely do whatever it takes to achive my goals That's not ruthless?”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“Scorpions are very loyal and deeply passionate. They can hold onto heartbreak and past hurt longer than you or I. It is an only illusion that makes us believe that the Scorpion is fully self-centered and only concerned with matters that affect their personal well-being. This may be a front that they put up to protect themselves from strangers they don't know very well.”
Source: Astrology
“Scorpios are tasked with awakening people to the depths of their soul. They transform for the better or sink deeper; depending on how they take the lessons that we show them.”
“Scorpios get a bad rap in most astrology circles. Mention that you're a Scorpio, and people cross their fingers and hiss. This is an injustice. If you're born under this sign, you're misunderstood and feared. You're intense and private - a combo that raises suspicions.”
Source: Astrology for Real Life: A Workbook for Beginners
“SCORPIUS: I can’t quite believe I did that.
ALBUS: I can’t quite believe you did that either.
SCORPIUS: Rose Granger-Weasley. I asked out Rose Granger-Weasley.
ALBUS: And she said no.
SCORPIUS: But I asked her. I planted the acorn. The acorn that will grow into our eventual marriage.
ALBUS: You are aware that you’re an utter fantasist.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
“SCORPIUS: The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
“SCORPIUS: "We send a memory — like a Pensieve — stand over him and send a message, hope he reaches for the memory at exactly the right moment. I mean, it’s unlikely, but . . . Stand over the baby — and just repeatedly shout HELP. HELP. HELP. I mean, it might traumatize the baby slightly."
ALBUS: "Only slightly.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
“Scorsese, Spielberg, Tarantino, Peter Jackson - all of you: I'm here, I'm ready. I can do funny faces, I can sing, I can dance. Hire me!”
“Scot McKnight stirs the treasures of our Lord's life in an engaging fashion. He did so with The Jesus Creed, and does so again with 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. Make sure this new guide for living is on your shelf.”
“Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle.”
“Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.”
“Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.”
“Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.”
“Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can’t relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it feels fucking great being Scottish. We’re becoming something, Julie. I can feel it. We’re getting dressed up.”
Source: Death of a Ladies' Man
“Scotland can't afford to take their minds off the gas”
“Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.”
“Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.”
“Scotland had no need of a 'resistant nationalism' precisely because it was an imperial nation engaged in projecting its national culture to the world. The historical problem of Scotland's 'absent nationalism' in the nineteenth century is a non-problem because far from lacking a nationalism, Scottish nationalism was vigorously engaged on imposing itself wherever Scots had achieved a determining or a significant role within the territory of the British Empire. Scottish nationalism did not need to assert itself within the British state because the 'world was its field', and its aim was to make Scotland the spiritual core of the imperial project.”
Source: The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence
“Scotland had oil, but it's running out thanks to all that deep frying.”
“Scotland has always been independent. We have our own legal system, our own culture; I don't see the issue. We are different and I think we should celebrate those differences within the union. I can see what would be lost, but don't necessarily see what would be gained by breaking away. What does upset me is that I can't vote in Scotland.”
“Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.”