S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.”
Source: Company parade
“Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.”
“Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.”
Source: Correspondence
“Speaking to bloggers on a daily basis.”
“Speaking to him would mean learning about him. Understanding him. Maybe befriending him. I know what it is to travel with someone, to break bread and laugh and grow close to them. And though perhaps it's foolish, that frightens me. Because I also know the pain of losing friends.”
Source: A Reaper at the Gates
“Speaking to narcissists and imagining having a normal human interaction is called delusion."
Alice Little, Narcissistic Abuse Truths”
“Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not 'How many people have you spoken to about Christ this week?' but 'How many people have you listened to in Christ this week?”
“Speaking to the Heart is a great encouragement to men who want to be better husbands and fathers. It is both a practical job description of fatherhood-showing how fathers build strength in their children-and an inspiring call to family leadership. Any father who takes this book to heart and puts its wisdom into action will be known to his children as a great man.”
“Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.”
“Speaking too highly of yourself might, at best, earn you admiration and respect, but by doing so, you are isolating yourself. You are constantly telling others how different you are from them and pushing them further away from you.”
“Speaking truth gets a bad rap, usually by those who don’t have to courage to speak it.”
Source: Swagger: Unleash Everything You Are and Become Everything You Want
“Speaking truth is not about being selfrighteous, it's about being courageous enough to stand for what's right, even when it's hard. It's not about elevating ourselves, but about lifting the veil of deceit and bringing light to the darkness.”
“Speaking truth to power about systemic injustice does not create disunity and division. In fact, it names the very disunity and division that we have failed to acknowledge and take accountability for.”
“Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.”
Source: Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)
“Speaking unspoken words,
music is a good way to say.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Speaking up comes with consequences. Never downgrade your worth. After all, if you do not stand for something, what is your purpose in life? I hope it's not standing in the shadows of others.”
“Speaking up, especially in childhood, is one of the hardest acts a person can do. It requires immense courage and sacrifice.”
Source: The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health
“Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.”
“Speaking up is a skill; what, when and how to talk is an art.”
Source: You By You
“Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it’s not going to get you respect.”
“Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.”
Source: Mirror Mirror: A Novel
“Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.”
“Speaking with her always felt like sitting on a seashore. Hearing the waves and feeling them crashing into my feet, While gazing the setting sun and the way he colours the whole sky. I never got tired of it.”
“speaking with him was not unlike conversing with a heavy brick wall that, now and then, aimed a barb at you for so addressing it.”
Source: Heart of Stone
“Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.”
“Speaking with many young people, they act like their virginity is something you have to turn the page very quickly on. "It's done."”
“Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.”
“Speaking with spiders and other things you call unusual... there's no special trick to it. When something catches your attention just keep your attention on it, stick with it 'til the end, and somewhere along the line there'll be weirdness.”
“speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.”
“Speaking your truth with love ensures that others will hear your message, since angry words can shut down communication.”
“Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.”
“Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.”
Source: Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
“Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.”
“Speakup, give a word to your imagination, let's shape the future.”
“Spearing a quail egg with her fork, Evie popped it into her mouth. “What is to be done about Mr. Egan?”
His shoulders lifted in a graceful shrug. “As soon as he is sober enough to walk, he’ll be dismissed.”
Evie brushed away a stray lock of hair that had fallen over her cheek. “There is no one to replace him.”
“Yes, there is. Until a suitable manager can be found, I’ll run the club.”
The quail egg seemed to stick in her throat, and Evie choked a little. Hastily she reached for her wine, washed it down, and regarded him with bulging eyes. How could he say something so preposterous? “You can’t.”
“I can hardly do worse than Egan. He hasn’t managed a damned thing in months… before long, this place will be falling down around our ears.”
“You said you hated work!”
“So I did. But I feel that I should try it at least once, just to be certain.”
She began to stammer in her anxiety. “You’ll pl-play at this for a few days, and then you’ll tire of it.”
“I can’t afford to tire of it, my love. Although the club is still profitable, its value is in decline. Your father has a load of outstanding debt that must be settled. If the people who owe him can’t muster the cash, we’ll have to take property, jewelry, artwork… whatever they can manage. Having a good idea of the value of things, I can negotiate some acceptable settlements. And there are other problems I haven’t yet mentioned… Jenner has a string of failing Thoroughbreds that have lost a fortune at Newmarket. And he’s made some insane investments— ten thousand pounds he put into an alleged gold mine in Flintshire— a swindle that even a child should have seen through.”
“Oh God,” Evie murmured, rubbing her forehead. “He’s been ill— people have taken advantage—”
“Yes. And now, even if we wanted to sell the club, we couldn’t without first putting it in order. If there were an alternative, believe me, I would find it. But this place is a sieve, with no one who is capable or willing to stop the holes. Except for me.”
“You know nothing about filling holes!” she cried, appalled by his arrogance.
Sebastian responded with a bland smile and the slightest arch of one brow. Before he could open his mouth to reply, she clapped her hands over her ears. "Oh, don't say it, don't!" When she saw that he was obligingly holding his silence-though a devilish gleam remained in his eyes-she lowered her hands cautiously.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“Spec (Specification) — A document that tells you how it is. The process of writing a specification tends to be more useful than someone reading it.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.”
“special dedication and tribute goes out to Jyoti Singh. She was brutally beaten, gang-raped, tortured, and killed. All of this occurred while Ms. Singh was traveling with her male friend on a bus. Jyoti had an iron rod rammed into her vagina. Her intestines were pulled out of her body and she was thrown off of a moving bus. The incident occurred in Munirka (a neighborhood in South West Delhi, India) on December 16, 2012. Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta, Akshay Thakur, Ram Singh (the bus driver), and Mohammed Afroz were convicted. The “juvenile”, Mohammed Afroz, was the rapist who shoved an iron rod inside of her vagina. Since he was 17 years old and six months old at the time of the crime, he was NOT TRIED AS AN ADULT. He was given a maximum sentence of three years’ imprisonment in a “reform facility” due to the Juvenile Justice Act. He is now a cook at a hotel in South India. Why does he get to be pampered while Jyoti suffered such a cruel fate?”
Source: The News Presents Many Views
“Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.”
“Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.”
“Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.”
Source: The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers
“Special interest politics is a simple game. A hundred people sit in a circle, each with his pocket full of pennies. A politician walks around the outside of the circle, taking a penny from each person. No one minds; who cares about a penny? When he has gotten all the way around the circle, the politician throws fifty cents down in front of one person, who is overjoyed at the unexpected windfall. The process is repeated, ending with a different person. After a hundred rounds everyone is a hundred cents poorer, fifty cents richer, and happy.”
Source: The machinery of freedom: guide to a radical capitalism
“Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.”
Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The Symbolic life
“Special Logan Kiss...
Yeah, but you didn't know that I'd recited how i felt for you right then, in that moment, in my mins. The words flowed silently, so easily. There's no mistaking them. When I gave you those kisses, I was telling myself and you....
He peck my nose "I..."
He kisses my forehead "..LOVE.."
My heart swells as
He presses his lips to my chin, then he whispers " YOU...”
Source: Perfectly Damaged
“Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.”
“Special needs create special desires.”
“Special ops have earned the right to boast and don’t; you’re just a wannabee, which is why you do.”
“Special prayer for those who are suffering from any addictions and depression:
“Father, I thank You that addiction is not their identity. I declare that all people all over the world with any kind of addition are not bound—they are beloved. I speak divine interruption into every cycle of destruction. Let Your Spirit arrest every craving and replace it with hunger for righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Send laborers into their path, dreams into their sleep, and conviction into their choices. I declare that they will live and not die, and they will proclaim the works of the Lord. Let the chains fall. Let the fog lift. Let the prodigals come home.
I come boldly, not because I feel strong, but because You are. I lift up every heavy thought, every silent ache, every invisible battle. I declare that their minds are not a battlefield—it is holy ground. Let every lie be silenced by truth. Let every shadow be pierced by Your light. Where despair tries to settle, let joy erupt. Where confusion whispers, let clarity roar. I speak divine alignment over their thoughts, emotions, and spirit. Let them feel Your nearness, not just know it. Let them rest in Your embrace, not just reach for it. Depression has no dominion over them. Peace is their portion. Joy is their inheritance. Hope is their anthem.”
In Jesus’ name, Amen!”
“Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.”
“special thanks to Martha Sharpe and everyone at Anansi; to Mandy Barber, for the use of her stunning visual art; to Karen Mac Cormack, for her advice during the early stages of this project; and to David Bromige (weaver of radhats), for his enthusiasm which encouraged me to develop this piece into a book-length poem.”
Source: The Tapeworm Foundry: And or the Dangerous Prevalence of Imagination