S Quotes
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“Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.”
“Spending time with Savannah made me wonder whether it was possible to defy the norm. I wanted more of her, and no matter what happened between us, I already knew I'd never forget anything about her. As crazy as it sounded, she was becoming part of me, and I was already dreading the fact that we wouldn't be able to spend the day together tomorrow. Or the day after, or the day after that. Maybe, I told myself, we could beat the odds.' - John”
Source: Dear John
“Spending time with the child or adolescent in mutually enjoyable activities on a regular basis will help to build warmth and trust.”
“Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.”
“Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not?”
“Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.”
Source: Dear John
“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. The more time we spent together, the more I could imagine it lasting in the future. That’s never happened to me before, and I’m not sure it’ll ever happen again. I’ve never been in love with anyone before you came along — not real love anyway…not like this. And I’d be a fool if I let you slip away without a fight”
“Spending time with yourself is needed to quiet the other voices in your life, so you can hear your own.”
“Spending too much or more money , especially on expensive things. Makes you look rich, but saving more. Makes you rich.”
“Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.”
“Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.”
“Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.”
“Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.”
“Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.”
“Spending years and money in school without the refining of one's purpose or gifting in life is an aberration.”
Source: Thriving Beyond Schooling: A Guide to What Significance Demands
“Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.”
“Spending your money in the things you like. It is not a waste.”
“Spending your money on things that give you pleasure once in a while is food for the soul.”
“Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.”
“Spensa, I hear no more footfalls. Have you temporary stopped being bipedal?”
Source: Skyward
“Spense la sigaretta nel portacenere. Non si sarebbe messa a lamentarsi, non era più una bambina. Ma le restava dentro un dolore. E un suono continuo e sommesso, il debole riverbero qualcosa di simile alla gioia, continuava a vivere ai margini della sua memoria, una qualche specie di desiderio che un tempo aveva trovato risposta e ora, semplicemente, non più.”
Source: Amy and Isabelle
“Spent few moments with your own thoughts, you will have everything you wish to achieve.”
“Spent most of the summer looking for shade. Driving around. Shade. Please? Driving in malls. I'll park a mile away I don't care. I'm just looking for a tree branch, anything. Long weed. Big leaf, get the front corner panel under it. Oh precious shade, I have it - you don't!”
“Spent my whole life,” Morganith went on, staring miserably into her drink, “thinkin’ that out there somewhere was ah woman who would love me incredibly and I would love her incredibly. Like ah fire consumin’ the very air. Then I meet her, and she leaves me.” Morganith snapped her fingers lazily. “Just like that.”
Source: The Thieves of Nottica
“Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.”
“Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.”
Source: Detroit: An American Autopsy
“Speranza si incupì sotto lo sguardo delle nipotine, le sopracciglia bianche si incontrarono al centro della fronte e la luce aranciata dell’abat-jour marcava le rughe come trincee nere, creava ombre scure nell’incavo degli occhi e sotto il mento. «Sa Filonzana» disse. «La Filatrice» chiarì subito dopo, a beneficio delle bambine. [...] «Lei fila il destino della gente» continuò. «E lo interrompe, se deve. Zac! Taglia il filo» spiegò, mimando un paio di forbici con le dita, quasi volesse giocare a Carta-Forbici-Sasso.
«Come le Parche» osservò Elena, dall’alto dei suoi dieci anni di saggezza.”
Source: Sa Filonzana
“Sperate e tenetevi occupate.”
“Spero di non arrivare mai al punto di pensare che alcune migliaia di dollari, in fondo, non sono poi molti soldi.”
“Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.”
“Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).”
“Spesso gli albergatori (soprattutto quelli di piccole e medie dimensioni) spendono per una prenotazione diretta addirittura più di quello che versano in commissioni alle OTA. Credo sia un problema di percezione: quando un hotel firma un contratto con Booking.com sa che una prenotazione intermediata ha un costo dell’X%, mentre calcolare esattamente quanto “pesa” una prenotazione diretta è sicuramente un processo più difficile (e spesso subdolo).”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“Spesso la gente non ha le emozioni chiare, altro che le idee.”
Source: Non avevo capito niente
“Spesso la gente è convinta di ingannare gli altri, ma la maggior parte delle volte non è così. Basta un occhio attento e tutto crolla.”
Source: Volpe
“Spesso le lacrime sono il modo migliore per preparare se stessi al nuovo.
Lacrime di gioia o di dolore, non importa, ma spesso salvano la vita. Perché, offuscando gli occhi con il pianto, sospendono per un momento la vista di ciò che si sta perdendo per sempre. Gli occhi non vedono più l'abbandono, scampano il pericolo del rimpianto, la tentazione della rinuncia.
Ma quando, asciutti, si riaprono, è lo spettacolo di cosa si è riusciti a fare davvero, senza più rimandare, quello che si dispiega davanti come un dipinto di noi mai visto.
Dovremmo tutti ricordarci di piangere più spesso: serve a non guardare indietro, serve a guardarsi dentro con gli occhi chiusi e poi, aperti, a guardare avanti.”
Source: La misura eroica: Il mito degli Argonauti e il coraggio che spinge gli uomini ad amare
“Spesso si dice che il tempo sembri scorrere più velocemente quando si è troppo presi da qualcosa. Ma più che un fenomeno è un fattore psicologico. In alternativa, magari la questione si ricollega a un'abduzione misteriosa.”
Source: The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
“Spesso sorvolo in sogno il mio lontano paese ntale, Fengyangshu. Mi vedo avvicinarmi ogni giorno di più a un fiume dalle acque torbide, che scorre da est a ovest. Lo attraverso dirigendomi verso la riva sinistra, dove i campi di papavero creano una possente onda rossa che si gonfia con il vento, e mi afferra, mi solleva, e mi sospinge verso quella Fengyangshu dove sono nato.”
Source: I due volti del mondo
“Spesso vorremmo che la nostra vita fosse diversa. Si sogna altro, e nulla si muove. Ci ripromettiamo delle cose. Andiamo avanti con dei se che non si verificano mai. Si aspetta, si procastina il momento in cui la nostra esistenza sarà migliore, e i giorni, gli anni passano con i nostri iuramenti ribaditi o svaniti.”
Source: Il club degli incorreggibili ottimisti
“Spezia offered Leopold almost nothing: his precocity devoured itself there, rejecting the steep sunny coast and nibbling blue edge of the sea that had drowned Shelley. His spirit became crustacean under douches of culture and mild philosophic chat from his Uncle Dee, who was cultured rather than erudite.”
Source: The House In Paris
“Sphere all your lights around, above;
Sleep, gentle heavens, before the prow;
Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now,
My friend, the brother of my love;”
Source: In Memoriam
“Sphinxes without secrets.”
Source: A Woman of No Importance (with audio): Enhanced Edition with Full Cast Audio Performance
“Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.”
“Spice is life. It depends upon what you like... have fun with it. Yes, food is serious, but you should have fun with it.”
“Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.”
“Spices from the Far East- clove and sandalwood and saffron- had drifted through the building's veins from the perfumery next door, infusing the satchel with a hint of faraway places. Open me...
The woman in the white gloves unlatched the dull silver buckle and the satchel held its breath.
Open me, open me, open me...
She pushed back its leather strap and for the first time in over a century light swept into the satchel's dark corners.
An onslaught of memories- fragmented, confused- arrived with it: a bell tinkling above the door at W. Simms & Son; the swish of a young woman's skirts; the thud of horses' hooves; the smell of fresh paint and turpentine; heat, lust, whispering. Gaslight in railway stations; a long, winding river; the wheat fragrance of summer-”
Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter
“Spices"
The scents of spices are sad
whether at home or in foreign lands ...
At home, they passes through the nose
to give a ray of hope,
a breathing space
that make us forget – albeit for a short while –
all about the chains of religions, gossip,
the absurdity of politics,
and the cruelty of the ruling classes …
At home, spices help us cope with
the heavy weight of the backbreaking
customs and traditions …
You see everyone excited to have a meal
that help them forget about
the hardships, the crises,
and the unsuitability of life at home …
In alienating foreign lands,
The scent of spices awakens everything that was lost,
including the lost lands and homes…
There is something unbearably sad about the image of a woman
Standing in a kitchen filled with scents of spices reminding her
of all that happened,
all that was possible,
all that should never have happened,
and of all the irreplaceable losses …
So many are the societies that have been
completely destroyed,
and of which nothing remains but scents of spices
that add flavor to foods
and marinate the wounds …
Could spices be like old songs?
We love them at home because
they touch wounds we wish we could heal from,
the same old songs break our hearts in foreign lands,
because by then we have finally learned
that exile doesn’t heal wounds,
but rather pushes the knife deeper into them …
And like the alienating foreign lands,
the scents of spices declare
that there is much more
to the story of the wound;
a story that kills if untold,
and doesn’t heal when narrated …
[Original poem published in Arabic on December 11, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
“Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That’s a known fact of science.”
“Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.”
Source: Sea