S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.”
“Stand-up would be my worst nightmare.”
“Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.”
“Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.”
“standard forms are sometimes called conventions, conventions are mightier than armies, police, and prisons. each citizen becomes the enforcer, the doorkeeper, an instrument of the Law, an unfeeling guard punching his fellow man hard in the belly.”
Source: Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
“Standard is not the money you have nor the creed you belong to ,truly IT IS CHARACTER......”
“Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not to clear thinking and basic decency but to the structured parts of our lives such as job interviews, political speeches, literary essays, novels, and the like. They signal education and learning, but they are not the same thing as education and learning.”
Source: You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
“Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“Standard procedure; the usual high volume of paperwork required to even sneeze on another planet.”
Source: Small Orange Fruit
“Standard protocol?"
"Yup."
"How many times have you done this?"
"Zero. But I'm familiar with the trope."
"The...what?" He blinked at her confused.”
Source: The Love Hypothesis
“Standardised tests cannot capture all, but on the other hand, students who are not capable of doing well on standardised tests are not well-equipped to thrive in today's world and so it's important for teachers to ensure that students gain the foundation necessary to meet the baseline educational standards these tests represent.”
“Standardizacija jezika od strane države i njenih institucija nasilan je proces koji služi programu izgradnje države i nacije (nation-building), i koji se onda nameće cijelom narodu.”
Source: POLITIKE PREVOĐENJA / Exercices de partage
“Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.”
“Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.”
“Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.”
“Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.”
“Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.”
“Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.”
Source: What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies
“Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.”
“Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep, as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing.”
“Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.”
“Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.”
“Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.”
“Standards are like toothbrushes. Everybody wants one but nobody wants to use anybody else’s.”
“Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.”
“Standards for decisions are the platform. They are like a court to do justice.”
Source: Questology
“Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.”
“Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.”
“Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.”
“Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.”
“Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.”
“Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.”
“Standen Sie jemals in einer Buchhandlung, haben sich verstohlen umgesehen und dann das Ende eines Buches von Agatha Christie aufgeschlagen, um zu sehen, wer es getan hat und wie? Haben Sie jemals das Ende eines Horrorromans aufgeschlagen, um festzustellen, ob der Held es aus der Dunkelheit ins Licht schafft? Wenn Sie das jemals getan haben, dann halte ich es für meine Pflicht, Ihnen drei schlichte Worte zu sagen: SCHÄMEN SIE SICH!”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Standenbeelden moeten blijven bestaan opdat ze niet vergeten worden. Een beter alternatief is het behoud van de standbeelden, maar met duiding. Maak er een mini-museum van, met een goeie omkadering.”
Source: Zwarte trots, witte schaamte? Over kolonialisme en racisme
“Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.”
“Standing 89 feet high, the Carthay Circle Theatre is actually taller than Sleeping Beauty Castle.”
Source: The Disneyland Book of Secrets 2014 - DCA: One Local's Unauthorized, Rapturous and Indispensable Guide to the Happiest Place on Earth
“Standing above him at all moments of awakeness was the hand of time, and it didn't hesitate to wring him out. It smiled and squeezed and let him live. What great malice there could be in allowing something to live.”
“Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.”
“Standing against crime shows your strength, standing against poverty shows your courage, standing against corrupt shows your braveness”
“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.”
“Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.”
Source: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
“Standing alone and observing from an edge "the giant universe" isn't that much scary than leaving yourself with your thoughts and creating insight in yourself!
Equally big universe lies within ourselves as well”
“Standing alone is better than not standing at all.”
“Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd.”
“Standing alone today demands even more courage and strength than it did in former cultures. From infancy, children have been programmed to perform. Rather than living from their own needs and feelings, they learn to assess situations in order to please others. Without an inner core of certainty grounded in their own musculature, they lack the inner resources to stand alone. Pummelled by mass media and peer group pressures, their identity may be utterly absorbed by collective stereotypes. In the absence of adequate rites of passage, ad-men become the high priests of an initiation into the addictions of consumerism.”
Source: The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation
“Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.”
“Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.”
“Standing among all those tiny, wavering lights, I felt as though I were God, up to my knees in the Milky Way.”
Source: Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
“Standing / apart from them one wonders / what on earth is a straight woman. / 'The only love I have ever felt / was for children and other women. / Everything else was just lust, pity, self-hatred, / pity, and lust.”
Source: The Latest Winter
“Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.”
Source: The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft