S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.”
“Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.”
“Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.”
“Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.”
“Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.”
“Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.”
“Scouts hadden een Franse lelie op de riem en werden overigens geregeerd door Engelsen (vanwege hun stichter Baden-Powell) die hun Engelse ceremonies opdrongen, thee drinken, onze stambroeders in Zuid-Afrika in concentratiekampen achter prikkeldraad laten verhongeren, onze geloofsbroeders in Ierland mitrailleren, fair play mijn kloten.”
Source: Het verdriet van België
“Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.”
“Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.”
“Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.”
Source: The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
“Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.”
“Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.”
“Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words "parsley", "intractable" or "longitude", you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours.”
“Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.”
“SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth”
“Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.”
“Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.”
Source: The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian
“Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.”
Source: The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
“Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.”
“Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.”
Source: Neighborhood Watch: A Novel
“Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.”
“Scratch a king and find a fool!”
Source: Not So Deep as a Well
“Scratch a lover, and find a foe.”
“Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.”
“Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.”
“Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.”
“Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.”
Source: The company she keeps
“Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.”
“Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.”
“Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.”
Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
“Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.”
“Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.”
Source: Chopin
“Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.”
“Scratch an Ideologically committed transphobe and you will likely find a fascist underneath.”
“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
“Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.”
Source: Wonders and surprises: a collection of poems
“Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.”
“Scratch me and you get grief. It will well up surreptitiously and slip away down any declivity, perhaps undermining the foundations but keeping a low profile and trying not to inconvenience anybody.
Scratch my sister at your peril however, because you’ll get rage, a geyser of it, like hitting oil after drilling dry, hot rock for months and it suddenly, shockingly, plumes up into the sky, black and viscous, coating everything as it falls to earth.
Take care when you scratch.”
Source: The Erratics
“Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.”
“Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that is not all she longs to be.”
“Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.”
“Scratch my back with a hack saw!”
“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.”
“Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.”
“Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about life before the questions have even been asked. This means that beyond just seeing what is wrong with the world, cynics lack the courage to do something about it. The dynamic beneath cynicism is a fear of accepting responsibility.”
Source: Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)
“Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.”
Source: Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God
“Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.”
“Scratch the surface of the theologians, and you'll find a fundamentalist in most of them.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was