S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have more ideas than I can execute also every time that I do anything. I put the puppets in because people love 'em. I'm a populist in that sense.”
“Statics saying that pleny of people are suicidal.”
Source: Brain on Porn
“Stating a truth in an emotional way does not make what we say irrational; our beliefs being severed from truth and reality do.”
Source: A Woman's Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God With Your Heart and Your Mind
“Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden”
Source: Homeland: The Legend of Drizzt
“Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.”
“Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.”
“Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.”
Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill
“Statism ends with an eye roll.”
“Statism is an unnatural disaster.”
“Statism is political fashion.
Individual liberty is eternal.”
“Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“Statism overvalues human rationality, disregards the complexity of social interaction, and ignores the learning from the system of trial and error that has produced economic development and peace among nations through trade relations.”
“Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state -
leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.”
Source: The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-faire
“Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.”
“statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports
that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared
leaving no solid clues
nor traceonly
a space
in the lives of their friends.”
Source: New and collected poems
“Statistical fact: cops will never pull over a man in a sweet van
if he’s carrying forty pounds of sinsemilla buds. Another fact:
ninety percent of all statistics are made up.”
“Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.”
Source: Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: Containing Researches Relative to the Geography of Mexico, the Extent of Its Surface, and Its Political Division Into Intendancies, the Physical Aspect of the Country, the Population, the State of Agriculture and Manufacturing and Commercial Industry, the Canals Projected Between the South Sea and Atlantic Ocean, the Crown Revenues, the Quantity of the Precious Metals which Have Flowed from Mexico Into Europe and Asia, Since the Discovery of the New Continent, and the Military Defence of New Spain
“Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1
“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!”
“Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.”
“Statistically, GHB is most commonly used by POC and LGBTQ+ groups from low-income backgrounds who cannot afford the limitless amount of ketamine, coke, and alcohol during their nights out. Why not put the energy into educating and providing your community with providing harm reduction guides on how to use it rather than shame and condemn it. The ban approach hasn't worked for the scene in the past decade, if anything it's killing more people, harming more communities and scrutinizing our spaces even more.”
Source: Rave Scout Cookies Handbook
“Statistically if you have a product or service that is valuable, then you're going to get yesses to your offer sometimes. Therefore if you make a huge volume of calls, you can get enough clients. It's like you're in a rock garden and one of the rocks has cash underneath. So you're turning over rocks as fast as you can to find that one. You don't worry about the ones that don't have it, you just drop them and keep going.”
Source: Supercharge Your Website Traffic: Unlock The Secrets To Infinite Website Visitors
“Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow Neanderthal!”
Source: Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium
“Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are marketed in a way that they're these independent unique artists writing their own stuff, and they're not, because fourteen percent of PRS goes to women.”
“Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar travel. I believe it's possible they even came here.”
“Statistically speaking, saying that the entire population of women is more reckless and gullible than men because a single woman in the Bible was reckless and gullible is invalid. A single data point is not sufficient for determining whether or not women are more likely to be gullible and reckless than men, and Eve only represents ONE DATA POINT that supports the claim! To use Eve's sin to state that women are more gullible and reckless would mean that you are creating a claim derived from only one data point, which is insufficient statistical support.”
Source: Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics
“Statistically speaking, you’re modeling the marriage your children will have.”
Source: Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire
“Statistically speaking, giving in the church today is embarrassing at best. So, there needs to be a message, a movement that addresses the problem in this very prosperous nation that reminds us and reinforces the fact that God has blessed this nation and blessed us as a people for a reason, not to buy the next new car or a bigger house. God has blessed the United States of America so that we will purpose to reach out to others and in doing so accomplishing His Will, doing His work, and then He is glorified.”
“Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.”
Source: Close to Home
“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”
Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
“Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
Source: Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.”
“Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.”
“Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.”
Source: The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin
“Statistically, to embrace this level of socio-cultural change will invariably lead to the enforcement of Sharia Law on the major towns and cities in Europe and Britain, (such as London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Lincolnshire etc.) Any area, in which Sharia Law is already borderline enforced near no-go zones.”
“Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And then with your third kid, you, like, pawn off your first and second kids' photographs and tell them they're theirs.”
“Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty amazing. And when you see them being taken apart and you see the work that goes into keeping those things in the air, you think, "Wow!"”
“Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.”
Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.”
“Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.”
“Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.”
“Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.”
“Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. Its like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but its almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.”
“Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.”
Source: Joy Shtick or What is the Existential Vacuum and Does it Come with Attachments
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too.”
“Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.”
“Statisticians are the most dangerous creatures on the face of the planet.”
“Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation”
“Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.”
Source: The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition