S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.”
“Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.”
“Spain is more vegan-friendly than you've been led to believe. The truth is, most places are.”
“Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.”
“Spain is where Gray’s godmother, Red Wire, and her husband, Red Dancer, had made their home. Their feathers were bright crimson-pink. They were high-energy and great sky-dancers.”
Source: The Flamingos Who Painted The Sky
“Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.”
“Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.”
“Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced he will soon call back Spain's 1300 troops from Iraq - meaning the coalition of the willing is fast turning into a duet of the stubborn.”
“Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.”
“Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.”
“Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.”
Source: The Confessions of a Misfit
“SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.”
“Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.”
“Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
“Spangskritlish
(Sonnet for Tomorrow's Citizen)
जाग्रत, उत्तिष्ठ, जगत् स्कन्धे गृहाण,
आत्मानं विस्मरतु, संसारस्य अश्रुमार्जयतु।
द्वेषं हिंसां च सर्वं परित्यज्य,
जाग्रत, उत्तिष्ठ, सुमनुष्य भवतु।
Eres Dios, eres diablo -
Lo que decidas, ¡así será!
Human destiny is human decision,
Somos la iluminación en toda oscuridad.
We are the illumination,
We are the answer to our prayer.
Karanlık bile korkacak bizden,
When we rise as each other's keeper.
Dolor del mundo es nuestro dolor.
While the apes doze, human builds the road.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.”
“Spaniards seem not to recognize such a thing as a light diet. They give the same food to sick people as to well ones — always the same rich, greasy cookery, with everything sodden in olive oil.”
Source: Homage to Catalonia
“Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.”
“Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.”
Source: France and England in North America
“Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.”
“Spanish—how shall I say this?—is like
Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.”
Source: Snooze: A Story of Awakening
“Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in the Spanish of the peninsula. I think it has to do with the indigenous way of looking at nature.”
“Spanish is the lovin’ tongue,
Soft as music, light as spray.
’Twas a girl I learnt it from,
Livin’ down Sonora way.
I don’t look much like a lover,
Yet I say her love words over,
Often when I’m all alone—
“Mi amor, mi corazon.”
Nights when she knew where I’d ride,
She would listen for my spurs,
Throw the big door open wide,
Raise them laughin’ eyes of hers.
And my heart would nigh stop beatin'
When I heard her tender greeting,
Whispered soft for me alone—
“Mi amor! mi corazon!”
Moonlight in the patio,
Old señora noddin’ near,
Me and Juana talkin’ low
So the Madre couldn’t hear—
How those hours would go a-flyin’!
And too soon I’d hear her sighin’
In her little sorry tone—
“Adios, mi corazon!”
But one time I had to fly
For a foolish gamblin’ fight,
And we said a swift goodbye
In that black, unlucky night.
When I’d loosed her arms from clingin’
With her words the hoofs kep’ ringin’
As I galloped north alone—
“Adios, mi corazon!”
Never seen her since that night.
I kaint cross the Line, you know.
She was Mex and I was white;
Like as not, it’s better so.
Yet I’ve always sort of missed her
Since that last, wild night I kissed her,
Left her heart and lost my own—
“Adios, mi corazon!”
Source: Sun and Saddle Leather
“Spanish olives
Boquerones
Apple and Manchego salad with toasted walnuts
Tomato and watermelon salad
Green bean salad with apricots and jamón Serrano
Tortilla española
Croquetas de jamón
Squid and shrimp a la plancha
Grilled hanger steak with salsa verde
Raw sheep's milk cheese with quince paste, chocolate-fig jam, & fruit-and-nut toasts”
Source: Too Many Cooks
“Spanish rain,
A maiden’s dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl’s caress.”
“Spanish rain,
A maiden’s dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl’s caress.
(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)”
“Spanish speakers will already have noted that recogiado is really not a word. However, we must remember that these villagers are Quechua speakers and at times unknown Spanish words are heard in such a way that people can make sense of them. Prior to the political violence, there were no refugees (refugiados) in the highlands. Certainly people moved about, and not always of their own volition. However, the category ‘‘refugiado’’ was a product of the war: the term figured in the state discourse, that of the soldiers and on the radio. ‘‘Refugiados’’ was heard as ‘‘recogiados,’’ making sense both of the word as well as its meaning.31 Recoger – to gather up, to take in, to shelter. Precisely what villagers were doing with the arrepentidos. ‘‘Recogiados [the gathered up ones, the taken in ones, the sheltered ones] and others’’ were in fact those who had come from other places seeking refuge; they were also those unnamed people who came in search of redemption.”
“Spank me! That's still a punishment. You bloated dickhead, you really are proof that evolution can go in reverse.”
“Spank me, whip me, let me come back home. Break out the leather, baby.”
“Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.”
“Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.”
Source: My own story, Donahue
“Spanking doesn't lead to anything in the child, other than anger, a sense of frustration and humiliation. And parents can do better. I'm not saying it should be against the law but parents can do better.”
“Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.”
“Spare a thought for those that don't think.”
“Spare change. Can't imagine how it got there."
She tipped her head in reproach.
He exhaled, sounding resigned. "It's not what you think."
She turned her hand palm-up between them, letting the coin serve as its own accusation. "I think I know a shilling when I see one."
"Look again."
She looked down at the coin in her gloved palm, where its embossed face stood out in sharp relief against white satin. Light glinted off the surface, revealing the color to be not the expected dull silver, but a coppery hue instead.
Oh.
A sharp pang of surprise caught her heart. He'd been telling the truth. It wasn't a shilling after all.
It was a penny.
A bright, newly minted penny. One he'd been keeping tucked in his breast pocket. Right next to his heart.
She drew a shaky breath. "Gabriel."
His hands went to her shoulders- but it was his low, husky voice that reached out and drew her close. "You know the squalor I was born to. And you know I promised myself I'd never be that barefoot, starving boy again."
She nodded.
"I have every luxury a man could desire. Hundreds of thousands of pounds in my accounts. I worked like hell to build a fortune, and yet..." His thumb met her cheek with a reverent caress. "Now I'd sell my soul for a Penny.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“Spare feast! a radish and an egg.”
Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems
“Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don't fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it's not acceptable.”
“Spare me the Deepak Chopra tribute.”
Source: Shared Sorrows
“Spare me the mantra that the “fundamentals” are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental.”
“Spare me the people who ask, 'Have you thought about ... losing weight, hiring an assistant, buying a Pentium, working with an etiquette specialist, coloring your hair?”
“Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.”
“Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.”
“Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.”
“Spare me your drama. Don’t try to gossip or pick a fight. No flings or empty promises. I’m not available for time-wasting nonsense. You’re looking for a version of me that doesn’t exist anymore.”
“Spare me your empty little compliments, girl.... and you ser's. I am no knight. I spit on them and their vows.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“Spare no expense on the stuff that matters.”
“Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.”
“Spare no expense to save money on this one.”
“Spare the bias, spoil the brain.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper