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“Stefano put an end to this tirade, which was developing rather nicely, I thought, by picking me up off the bench and lifting me till my eyes were on a level with his. My feet dangled helplessly, a good ten inches off the ground.
"Just like a man," I said, somewhat breathlessly, because his hands were squeezing my ribs. "When you are losing an argument, you resort to physical violence!"
"Oh no," Stefano said. "The physical violence is only a preliminary. This is how I counter arguments such as yours."
He kissed me.”
Source: Wings of the Falcon
“Steffi wasn't tired anymore. In fact, she felt invigorated. She was going to make it. She needed more of those kisses.”
Source: Taken by Storm
“Steffy risked a glance at her fellow neighbors and townspeople. She often looked for kindred spirits in the crowd. None were ever found. Just once, she wished to see someone trying to hide a smile, a snicker, or plain sighing at the absurdity. The rowdy outcasts among the community were not welcome in the church. They knew better than to show their faces.”
“Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.”
“Steiger presented another analysis by a professional engineer, who saw the wall carvings at Dendera as an accurate illustration of an electrical device—one which would not be out of place in a modern electrical blueprint file. "In regards to the ancient Egyptian electron tubes, electromagnetic engineer Professor S.R. Harris identified a box-and braided cable in the picture as 'virtually an exact copy of engineering illustration used today for representing a bundle of conducting wires.' The cable runs from the box the full length of the floor and terminates at both the ends and at the bases of two peculiar objects resting on two pillars. Professor Harris is said to have identified these representations as high voltage insulators.”
Source: The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt
“Steinauge dachte eine Weile nach und sagte dann: "Ist das eine Schuld, wenn Böses aus dem erwächst, was man gut gemeint hat?"
"Nur gut meinen reicht nie aus", sagte der Zirbel, "solange man nicht daran denkt, was die Zeit aus dem machen könnte, was man in dieser guten Meinung tut."
"Dann tut man am besten gar nichts mehr", sagte Steinauge erbittert. "Woher soll ich wissen, was daraus entstehen könnte, wenn ich einen abgenagten Kaninchenknochen hinter mich ins Gebüsch werfe? Es könnte ja einer kommen, ihn sich in den Fuß treten und an Blutvergiftung sterben. Man könnte nicht einmal den kleinen Finger krümmen, ohne in Schuld zu fallen. Steif und starr müsste man stehenbleiben und kein Glied mehr rühren."
"Genau das habe ich ein Leben lang getan", sagte der Zirbel. "Aber ich sehe jetzt auch, dass dies für Menschen unmöglich ist. Ihr seid so geartet, dass ihr euch ständig mit irgend etwas beschäftigen müsst, statt die Zeit zu bedenken. Kein Wunder, dass ihr die Welt ständig durcheinanderbringt.”
Source: The Stone and the Flute
“Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of time. He said that one should look from the tide pool to the stars, and then back again in wonder.”
Source: The Beginning of Everything
“Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.”
“Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to a fine and ethereal substantiality. My Unwritten Books is a gathering of shades, an elegant and eloquent gathering of mind, feeling, and autumnal passion. (...) And that is the lovely irony of this unique little book. None of these unwritten books should have been written. They are better here, as they are, untamed and errant phantoms of a brilliance whose emanations no one mortal lifetime could ever accommodate in full.”
“Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.”
Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess
“Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.”
“Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.”
“Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.”
“Stejně jako zamilovanost činí milovanou ženu krásnější, tak úzkost z obávané ženy dává vystoupit každému jejímu vadnému rysu do nepřiměřené velikosti.”
Source: Farewell Waltz
“Stekel quite rightly says:
Children are not substitutes for one's disappointed love; they are not substitutes for one's thwarted ideal in life, children are not mere material to fill out an empty existence. Children are a responsibility and an opportunity. Children are the loftiest blossoms upon the tree of untrammelled love . . . They are neither playthings, nor tools for the fulfilment of parental needs or ungratified ambitions. Children are obligations; they should be brought up so as to become happy human beings.”
Source: The Second Sex
“Stel dat er vandaag een procedure moet worden ontworpen om de volkswil te leren kennen, zou het beste idee dan werkelijk zijn om mensen eens in de vier of vijf jaar met een kartonnetje in de hand te laten aanschuiven bij een stemlokaal, waar ze in het schemerduister van een stemhokje een bolletje mogen kleuren, waarover maandenlang rusteloos is bericht in een commerciële omgeving die baat heeft bij rusteloosheid? En zouden we dan dat bizarre, archaïsche ritueel nog steeds 'de hoogtijdagen van de democratie' durven noemen?”
Source: Tegen verkiezingen
“Stel dat je in de politiek zit en je hebt van huis uit een idioot kapsel. [...] Cultiveer dat. Probeer zoveel mogelijk op de foto te staan. Draag onopvallende kleding, mijd het gezelschap van mooie vrouwen, focus op dat haar. Mensen zullen naar je gaan luisteren, ze zullen in je gaan geloven. Het zal hun verstand hypnotiseren, het zal lastige vragen doen oplossen in het niets.”
Source: Hoe ik nimmer de Ronde van Frankrijk voor min-twaalfjarigen won
“Stelele sunt asezate astfel incat sa formeze litere. Alfabete celeste. Scrieri care se schimba pe masura ce se mischa pamantul. Daca te uiti asa la cer, ai senzatia ca e un imens poem schimbator , sau poate o schrisoare , care initial a avut un autor, apoi, dupa ce pamantul s-a mischat, un alt autor a completat-o . Asa ca stau si ma uit la cer, pana cand , intr-o zi , voi putea s-o citesc.”
Source: Magonia
“Stella couldn’t believe this was happening. Gavin and Holden were both in her bed and just as desperate for her as she was for them. Her life had morphed into a cross between a romance novel and a porno. If she was dreaming, she didn’t ever want to wake up.”
Source: Circling Back
“Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.”
“Stella. I cannot wait to see her and hold her in my arms once more. I long for my stellina. I worry that the distance between us will someday create cracks in our love that cannot be mended. Our time together sometimes seems thin, like a spice or other flavor is missing. I need to think of something I can do more to seal our love together, to rekindle our fire so we will always long for each other.”
Source: The Chef's Secret
“Stella is a mask trying to make itself real. A bed stitching itself a quilt. I wonder if all minds build themselves autonomously out of whatever rags and bones are left lying around, and she—her original being erased or broken—is just doing what we all do, a little late renewal in her own skull.”
Source: Gnomon
“Stella is next up. Her cake is striking to look at, stacked in graduated tiers, so that it almost resembles half of a bee's nest. It's lightly frosted in that naked style, the icing scraped away to reveal the edges of the sponge, cooked to perfection. A honey-colored glaze drips attractively down the sides, and small fondant bees with almond silver wings cling to the tops of the cakes; a few are even hovering on wire to look like they are flying.
"I must say I've never seen a cake shaped like this. What are the flavors?" Betsy asks, and Stella beams.
"It's flavored with orange zest and honey.”
Source: The Golden Spoon
“Stella knew that no matter how far a person traveled, there would always be places that held undiscovered treasure; the secrets of people and their hearts”
Source: The Girl in The Red Cape
“Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.”
“Stella says the name for the house where she and Ms. Havisham live is Stasis, Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three to dub the domicile Enough House. In a healthy soul, this might mean contentment. Or, in seeing what we have as Enough, this can mean we are not open to vulnerability, generosity, or dependence on those who might threaten our Stasis.”
Source: Great Expectations
“Stella scribbled
in thick black texta
across half the pages
of my best storybook,
filled with people who ventured
where their hearts took them.
Beautiful worlds beyond mine.”
Source: Cinnamon Rain
“Stella turned through the pages and saw the pikelets, pea-and-ham soup and the boiled mutton and capers of her childhood. Here was her mother's wimberry pie, her damson jam and her gooseberry fool. Where recipes came from relatives and friends, her mother's handwriting noted the case: the method for hot-water pastry had been handed down from her grandmother; the parsley in her suet dumplings came from her cousin; the parkin was her great-aunt's recipe. Stella remembered how she and her mother would always share the first slice of roast lamb at the stove and the secret glass of sherry they'd drink as they made a trifle.”
Source: Good Taste
“Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away... I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in Dannemora.'”
“Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.”
“Stellen Sie sich das vor. Die Menschen sind verzweifelt, weil der Boden zu viel trägt! Zu viel Getreide, und andere haben nichts zu fressen! Wenn in so eine Welt kein Blitz fährt, dann können sich die historischen Witterungsverhältnisse begraben lassen.”
Source: Fabian: die Geschichte eines Moralisten
“Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.”
“Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.”
“Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.”
“Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.”
“Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.”
“Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan.”
“Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.”
“Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.”
“Stem-cell research on embryos is an even worse excuse for the slaughter of life than abortion. No woman is even being spared an inconvenience this time.... It's just harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter.”
Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism
“Stenberg mengatakan, karena terjadinya perubahan dalam struktur otak dan cara berpikir manusia ketika masa remaja, maka perilaku seseorang ketika sudah dewasa, baik itu dewasa muda maupun dewasa akhir, lebih banyak mencerminkan perilaku yang sudah pernah muncul ketika remaja.”
“Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop”
Source: V.
“Stenciled on the wall were yellow and white daisies and the words: God Keeps His Promises.
I closed my eyes, and tried to let those words seep into my soul.
Do you? Do you keep them all?
Daddy would say yes, God keeps them all, every single one. The ones He actually made and not the genie-in-a-bottle lies we wished were true.”
Source: When the Wildflowers Bloom Again
“Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots.”
“Stendhal, desde infância, amou as mulheres sensualmente; projetou nelas as aspirações de sua adolescência; imaginava-se de bom grado salvando de algum perigo uma bela desconhecida e conquistando-lhe o amor. Chegando a Paris, o que desejava mais ardentemente era "uma mulher encantadora; nós nos adoraremos, ela conhecerá minha alma"... Velho, escreve na poeira as iniciais das mulheres que mais amou. "Creio que foi o devaneio que preferi a tudo", confia-nos ele. E são imagens de
mulheres que lhe alimentaram os sonhos; a lembrança delas anima as paisagens. "A linha de rochedos aproximando-se de Arbois, creio, e vindo de Dôle pela estrada principal, foi para mim uma imagem sensível e evidente da alma de Métilde." A música, a pintura, a arquitetura, tudo o que amou, amou-o com uma alma de amante infeliz; quando passeia em Roma, a cada página, uma mulher aparece; nas saudades, nos desejos, nas tristezas, nas alegrias
que elas suscitaram-lhe, conheceu o gosto do próprio coração; a elas é que deseja como juizes. Freqüenta-lhes os salões, procura mostrar-se brilhante aos seus olhos, deveu-lhes suas maiores felicidades, suas penas; foram sua principal ocupação. Prefere seu amor a toda amizade e sua amizade à dos homens; mulheres inspiram seus livros, figuras de mulheres os povoam; é em grande parte para elas que escreve. "Corro o risco de ser lido em 1900 pelas almas que amo, as Mme Roland, as Mélanie Guibert..." As mulheres foram a própria subsistência de sua vida. De onde lhe veio esse privilégio? Esse terno amigo das mulheres, e precisamente porque as ama em sua verdade, não crê no mistério feminino; nenhuma essência define de uma vez por todas a mulher; a idéia de um "eterno feminino" parece-lhe pedante e ridículo. "Pedantes repetem há dois mil anos que as mulheres têm o espírito mais vivo e os homens, mais solidez; que as mulheres têm mais delicadeza nas idéias e os homens, maior capacidade de atenção. Um basbaque de Paris que passeava outrora pelos jardins de Versalhes concluía, do que via, que as árvores nascem podadas." As diferenças que se observam entre os homens e as mulheres refletem as de sua situação. Por exemplo, por que não seriam as mulheres mais romanescas do que seus amantes? "Uma mulher com seu bastidor de bordar, trabalho insípido que só ocupa as mãos, pensa no amante, enquanto este galopando no campo com seu esquadrão é preso se faz um movimento em falso." Acusam igualmente as mulheres de carecerem de bom senso. "As mulheres preferem as emoções à razão; é muito simples: como em virtude de nossos costumes vulgares elas não são encarregadas de nenhum negócio na família, a razão nunca lhes ê útil.. . Encarregai vossa mulher de tratar de vossos interesses com os arrendatários de duas de vossas propriedades; aposto que as contas serão mais bem feitas do que por vós." Se a História revela-nos tão pequeno número de gênios femininos é porque a sociedade as priva de quaisquer meios de expressão: "Todos os gênios que nascem mulheres estão perdidos para a felicidade do público; desde que o acaso lhes dê os meios de se revelarem, vós as vereís desenvolver os mais difíceis talentos." O pior handicap que devem suportar é a educação com que as embrutecem; o opressor esforça-se sempre por diminuir os que oprime; é propositadamente que o homem recusa às mulheres quaisquer possibilidades. "Deixemos ociosas nelas as qualidades mais brilhantes e mais ricas de felicidade para elas mesmas e para nós." Aos dez anos, a menina é mais fina e viva do que seu irmão; com vinte, o moleque é homem de espírito e a moça "uma grande idiota desajeitada, tímida e com medo de urna aranha"; o erro está na formação que teve. Fora necessário dar à mulher exatamente a mesma instrução que se dá aos rapazes.”
Source: The Second Sex
“Stendhal knows the source of his greatest happiness and his worst misery: the reflexivity of his spiritual life. When he loves, enjoys beauty, feels free and unconstrained, he realizes not only the bliss of these feelings but, at the same time, the happiness of being aware of this happiness. But now that he ought to be completely absorbed by his happiness and feel redeemed from all his limitations and inadequacies, he is still full of problems and doubts: Is that the whole story?—he asks himself. Is that what they call love? Is it possible to love, to feel, to be delighted and yet to observe oneself so coolly and so calmly? Stendhal’s answer is by no means the usual one, which assumes the existence of an insurmountable gulf between feeling and reason, passion and reflexion, love and ambition, but is based on the assumption that modern man simply feels differently, is enraptured and enthusiastic differently from a contemporary of Racine or Rousseau. For them, spontaneity and reflexivity of the emotions were incompatible, for Stendhal and his heroes they are quite inseparable; none of their passions is so strong as the desire to be constantly calling themselves to account for what is going on inside them. Compared with the older literature, this self consciousness implies just as profound a change as Stendhal’s realism, and the overcoming of classical-romantic psychology is just as strictly one of the preconditions of his art as the abolition of the alternative between the romantic escape from the world and the anti-romantic belief in the world.”
Source: The Social History of Art: Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age
“Stenham had always taken it for granted that the dichotomy of belief and behavior was the cornerstone of the Moslem world. It was too deep to be called hypocrisy; it was merely custom. They said one thing and they did something else. They affirmed their adherence to Islam in formulated phrases, but they behaved as though they believed, and actually did believe, something quite different. Still, the unchanging profession of faith was there, and to him it was this eternal contradiction which made them Moslems. But Amar’s relationship to his religion was far more robust: he believed it possible to practice literally what the Koran enjoined him to profess. He kept the precepts constantly in his hand, and applied them on every occasion, at every moment. The fact that such a person as Amar could be produced by this society rather upset Stenham’s calculations. For Stenham, the exception invalidated the rule instead of proving it: if there were one Amar, there could be others. Then the Moroccans were not the known quantity he had thought they were, inexorably conditioned by the pressure of their own rigid society; his entire construction was false in consequence, because it was too simple and did not make allowances for individual variations.”
Source: The Spider's House
“Step 1. Find your dream.
Step 2. Put it at the center of your life (not a distant goal).
Step 3. Recognize everything else as froth.
Note: 99% do the exact opposite and wonder why dreams take so long to come true...
If your dream is at the end of a rainbow”
“Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting.”