S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!”
“Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order.”
Source: Succubus Blues
“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.”
“Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2”
“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because we feel powerless, invisible, unheard. We crave celebrity, but that’s not easy to come by, so we settle for notoriety. Envy and bitterness drive a new breed of lawbreakers, replacing the old motives of poverty and the need for escape. But how do you solve crimes which no longer have traditional motives?”
Source: Ten Second Staircase
“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”
“Statistics surpasses sentiments.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Statistics tell us that of the 500,000 people who arrived, those who are granted political asylum are more or less 10 percent. I mean those who are fleeing from war, from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, parts of Nigeria. Welcoming them, in all of these cases, is our duty. For illegals, though, expulsion is needed.”
“Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.”
“Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.”
“Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."”
“Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.”
“Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.”
“Statistisch gesehen müsste man 5,3 Mio. Mal mit einer westlichen Airline fliegen, um einmal in einen Unfall verwickelt zu sein.”
Source: Unnützes Wissen: 1374 skurrile Fakten, die man nie mehr vergisst
“Stato" significa specialmente direzione consapevole delle grandi moltitudini nazionali; è quindi necessario un "contatto" sentimentale e ideologico con tali moltitudini e, in una certa misura, simpatia e comprensione dei loro bisogni e delle loro esigenze.”
“Stats are for losers. I like winning games.”
“Stats don't matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I'm happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose, I'm pissed off. 'Cause I knew I did something wrong. I'll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.”
“Statt mich wegzudrücken oder zurückzutreten, griff er nach meinem Oberarm und zog mich noch näher zu sich heran. Wieder hüllte mich sein würziger Geruch ein und mein Blick glitt über sein Gesicht, seine Lippen, hinunter zu seinem Hals. Sein ganzer Körper war angespannt, die Muskeln traten hervor und sein Kiefer zuckte. Er schluckte – schwer.
Noch nie war mir aufgefallen, wie sexy so ein Hals oder ein Kiefer sein konnte. Oder diese vollen Lippen, die sich gerade teilten, als er Luft ausstieß. Sein Atem streifte meine Wange und ging nun mindestens genauso schnell wie meiner.
Verdammt – so war das nicht geplant gewesen.”
Source: Die Gefahr in den Wäldern
“Statt nun allerdings Strukturreformen und eine bessere Gesundheitsversorgung für alle Familien einzufordern, lenken sie den Blick auf »individualistische Elternschaft«, wie die Soziologin Jennifer Reich es nennt.”
Source: Decolonize Self-Care
“Statt seine Persönlichkeit zu vernichten, war es nur gelungen, ihn sich selbst hassen zu lehren.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“Statt so zu leben, wie es die Natur uns heißt, haben wir begonnen, diese Natur zu vernichten.”
“Statt Stunden, Tage oder Jahre darauf zu verschwenden, den optimalen nächsten Schritt auszuklügeln, TUN Sie einfach was.”
Source: You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
“Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point.”
“Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.”
Source: Scorpia
“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”
“Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.”
Source: Natural opium: some travelers' tales
“Statul, numit de toate rasele Lew-Yathan, are întotdeauna în frunte, ales de întreaga obşte, pe cel mai ticălos, mai corupt şi mai viclean cetăţean. Teoria spune că, focalizând ura tuturor, ca o lentilă, suveranul poate produce o rază nimicitoare în confruntarea cu inamicul.”
Source: Enciclopedia zmeilor
“Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.”
“Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.”
“Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.”
“Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn't matter how much money you have come for. That doesn't matter to me. I will play a 17-year-old if he fights and he has quality. It is quite easy.”
“Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.”
“Status is created by other people's attitude towards you. Titania has a retinue and it's the people around her that give her the status. It's like--was it Tyrone Guthrie who said it to Ian Holm when he was playing Henry V? 'Don't let anyone come within four feet of you.' It's all to do with how other people act in relation to you. That's what gives you the power.”
Source: Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
“Status is treacherous for women: in patriarchies, it is always a trade-off for freedom.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.”
“Status quo and mediocrity are not your friends, nor are they mine.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.”
“Status quo is not very helpful for spiritual growth, for using this short interval between birth and death. On the other hand, expanding our ability to feel comfortable in our own skin and in the world, so that we can be there as much as possible for other people, is a very worthy way to spend a human life.”
Source: Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
“Status quo thinking is the premature rejection of deeply unfamiliar ideas; it is the enemy of originality.”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.”
“Status symbols are poor excuses for values.”
“Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”
“Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.”
“Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.”
“Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest.”
“statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do by virtue of his intellect or temperament, nor prevented anything that man was impelled to do by the same dictates.”
Source: Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909
“Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .”
“Stavano giocando con il fuoco. Si sarebbero scottati entrambi, ma lei sapeva che rischiava di avere la peggio.
Era troppo fragile, troppo insicura e troppo innamorata per non soffrire di un gioco stupido come quello che Ben stava facendo.
«Hai detto che non mi avresti nemmeno sfiorato» sussurrò sostenendo il suo sguardo e negli occhi chiari di lui lesse un abisso di desiderio e passione che la spaventarono.
Lui non distoglieva gli occhi da quelli di lei ma sorrise. Mosse la mano in modo che non scivolò fuori da quella di Sarah ma le loro dita si intrecciarono e fu lui a stringere.
«A meno che sia tu a chiedermelo» sussurrò poi.
«Non te lo sto chiedendo» disse Sarah con voce rotta.
Era confusa ed eccitata.
Non poteva negarlo a stessa, ma non intendeva mostrare il fianco a lui diventando facile preda.
«Non ancora» disse di nuovo lui con voce impercettibile e lo sguardo incupito dal desiderio represso.”
Source: Baci e bugie sotto il vischio
“Stavo cercando un posto tranquillo per morire”
Source: The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster