S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Still, it was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew.”
Source: Zorrie
“Still, its a shame that we cannot reclaim those vanished days, and try to live them better.”
Source: The Vanished Days
“Still, its width is small enough that I’m tempted to give Riden a slight push.
As if sensing this, he says, “Don’t even think about it.”
“I already did.”
“I could have you shot.”
“Your gun would have a hard time working once it’s wet.”
“I didn’t say I had to be the one to shoot.”
“But let’s face it, you’d like that pleasure for yourself.”
He smiles.”
Source: Daughter of the Pirate King
“Still, Kaderin sighed, unable to help feeling very old and very alone.”
Source: No Rest for the Wicked
“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize; whose continuity and underlying laws could now be pointed out; indeed, whose overall concept or meaning could at last, with all the insistence required on such occasions, be squarely set forth. I will not feign, according to the code, either premeditation or improvisation. These texts are assembled otherwise; it is not my intention here to present them.”
Source: Dissemination
“Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”
“Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
And offers for short life, eternal liberty.”
Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
“Still, Lindsay stops getting dressed, even though he's only half-done, because he gets this urge to ambush the kid with a hug. Just that, nothing else. He wraps his arms around Valentine's skinny body and pulls him close and rests his cheek on the still-damp hair and inhales the cherry-almond scent of his shampoo, and Valentine says, "Oh!" in a really odd way, like he's just read a particularly interesting fact on the back of a Penguin biscuit wrapper. Lindsay's got his eyes shut but he can feel the kid's hands creeping up his bare arms, over his shoulders. One stays there and the other comes to rest on the back of his neck, fingers playing idly with the ends of his hair, and several minutes pass without sound or movement, just the gentle thud of heartbeats.
"What's that for?" Valentine asks, when Lindsay finally lets him go.
"Don't know. Nothing. Just seemed the kind of thing you'd like. BAM, surprise ninja cuddles.”
Source: Stockholm Syndrome
“Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl that I ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean.”
“still loved but deprived of grace”
“Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.”
“Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.”
Source: Nightwoods
“Still may syllables jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!”
“Still men be clever and in an hundred centuries or more, perchance will have found a way to journey thither; when that they have discovered and understood all things on the earth. What will a man be like in the xxvii century, or even the xx? Very like unto us, I do expect; I do not think that man’s nature shall change; nor do I anticipate that he will be the wiser than we, for all his learning, for ‘tis a part of that nature which is ours that we do not heed the lessons of history: neither our own, nor the world’s.”
Source: The Printer's Devil
“Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.”
“Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire in all directions.”
Source: Hell Screen
“Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.”
“Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; he exhausts himself and is beaten. He gets entangled in non-essentials and falls into the trap set by cleverer people.”
“Still must I tamely
Talk sense with these others?
How long
Before I shall be with you again,
Magnificently saying nothing!”
Source: Selected poems
“Still must the poet as of old,
In barren attic bleak and cold,
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to
Such things as flowers and song and you;
Still as of old his being give
In Beauty's name, while she may live,
Beauty that may not die as long
As there are flowers and you and song.”
Source: A Few Figs from Thistles
“Still my heart is set on the higher calling.”
“Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented.”
Source: The Beautiful Ones
“Still, no matter how he felt about her, she always managed to find a way to seep back into his thoughts. Always.”
Source: Vermin
“Still... No one knew me better, or put up with me more, or held me together as much as Annabeth, and I knew she could say the same about me-because if I were slacking as a boyfriend, she would let me know real quick.”
“Still, no one much celebrated having found a previously unknown painter [Marie Denise Villers] who was equal to the great David. Though the public continued to love the painting - they may not have known David from Delacroix, at any rate - soma academics had a change of heart about the painting itself.
Sterling (see start of chapter) said some not-very nice things, beginning with, "The notion that our portrait may have been painted by a woman is, let us confess, an attractive idea." Why attractive? Because it explains everything wrong with the work: "cleverly concealed weaknesses" and "a thousand subtle artifices" that all add up to "the feminine spirit."
In other words: Isn't that just like a woman?”
Source: Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
“Still not noticing the log of pre-made dough on the counter, Tom raised his hand above his head. 'LRH is here,' he said, then lowered his hand to his chin and said, 'And Dave and I are here.' Then with his hand down at his waist, he said, 'And you are here.”
Source: Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
“Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.”
“Still not sure about the path you’ll pursue?
If not yet, how much time will it take you?
All the years that it out you cannot sort
are but a waste to a life that’s so short.”
“Still, on a daily basis, I have to remember to release, to choose patience, to ask for forgiveness when I blow it. But now we have a rhythm to our family that is built on a foundation of unconditional love. Not matter what happens, at the end of the day, this is the place where we all return:
"I am committed to loving you and accepting you as God has made you."
"I will always be here for you."
"I will always have your back and be a friend, whatever life holds."
"I will help you search for answers and support your growth."
"I will be a refuge you can come home to."
"We are a family, and we will love each other always and always.”
Source: Different: The Story of an Outside-the-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him
“Still, on frostbitten mornings, under the sheen of a slithering mist, as I stood on the balcony, there was also a relief to be found in the wilderness that obscured us from the world and its revulsions.”
Source: The Rider on the Bridge
“Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.”
Source: The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume
“Still on mute, he bellowed in silence. No audience was forced to listen to him. Just Clarke in his little room screaming toward the heavens in silence.
Heavens? she thought. And she said softly, “No one in heaven’s listening. No one there’s gonna help him out.”
Source: Unfair Discrimination
“Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.”
Source: Healology
“Still, one could dream.”
Source: Crocodile Tears
“Still onto This Day, I Dawdle to Be Plagued With The Same Unfortunate Reoccurring Nightmare.
In My Horrifying Dream, there is an Attractive Women With Piercing Blue Eyes And Light Brownish Hair, Sporting A Lengthy Red Dress With Extended Dark Black Heals Who Kills Me On Christmas Day.
In My Dream I am Listening to A Christmas Song… “Jingle Bells” While Rambling Down a Dark Corridor Inside A Home. I am Shot in The Back of The Head And The Music Box Lingers Playing The Same Tune.
I Can See Nothing but The Bottom of Her Mends, And Then All Becomes Ample Dark.”
“Still other rumors held that the ultimate aim of Bolshevik policy, seen in the combination of unveiling and collectivization, was to have all women held in common. In the kolkhoz, peasants ware warned, men and women slept together under giant blanket, and wives became common property.”
Source: Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
“Still others, busy on the outside of the soul, devoted themselves to the cult of noise and confusion, thinking they were living whenever they heard themselves, and supposing they loved whenever they brushed love's outward forms. Living was painful because we knew we were alive; dying didn't scare us, for we had lost the normal notion of what death is.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.”
“Still others observe that women are particularly interested in seeing come-shots because men's ejaculations are generally hidden from them. In "normal" sex, women never see men come. To some of them, it may be as seductively elusive as the glimpse of a breast or lace panties is to a pubescent boy. In this context, the come-shot can be interpreted as almost romantic: The woman wishes to share in her lover's orgasm.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man's table, or the child from a woman's breast, or the wife from a man's bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could hold these goods in place. And others remarked to themselves how sweet these goods were, in spite of that, and saw that pleasure lost in every moment is pleasure lost forever.”
Source: The Greenlanders
“Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.”
Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations
“Still, part of her longs to go back for one instant--not to change anything, not even to speak to Lydia, not to tell her anything at all. Just to open the door and see her daughter there, asleep, one more time, and know all was well.
She knows she's been granted a vision, and she tries not to blink, to absorb this moment, this last beautiful image of her daughter sleeping.”
Source: Everything I Never Told You
“Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!”
“Still people are dangerous.”
“Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig.”
“Good. I think I’ll try a different colour every night.”
Source: Mrs. Caliban
“Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.”
“Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.”
“Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick.”