S Quotes
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“Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.”
“Still, the night feels restless underneath me”
“Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.”
Source: The Tuning of the World
“Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.”
Source: Andromeda: And Other Poems
“Still, the roads were fairly clear of traffic, aside from those families that did not wish to take a chance by sticking around and waiting to see what happened next. Those were the smart ones.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Still the silence raged and echoed around her.
Still she felt nothing.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“Still, the ten days were enough for me to see, as if peering over the edge of a well, that silence could be mystical, and that if you dared, diving fully into your inner depths might be both profound and disturbing.”
Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“Still, the tentacle must be pretty big for her to be able to discern that it's a tentacle at all. That's not real, she thinks, with the instant scorn of any true New Yorker. Just two days before, big white film-production trailers took over her entire block. That happens all the bloody time these days, because movie people invariably seem to want multicultural working-class New York as a backdrop for their all-white upper-class dramedies—which means Queens, since East New York is still too Black for their tastes and the Bronx has a "reputation".”
Source: The City We Became
“Still, the thought of having someone to spend time with, to talk to, maybe to hold while she slept? It sounded romantic. Perfect. Why was it so difficult for others to contemplate a relationship built on mutual affection, on romantic gestures that didn’t extend into the bedroom? Abby wanted roses and inside jokes, something easy and natural. Sex was a complication she didn’t have any interest in.”
Source: Thaw
“Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer edges of my world, helped me draw a deep, soothing breath. Only Sumire could do that for me.”
“Still the voices of your critics. Listen intently to your own voice, to the person who knows you best. Then answer these questions: Do you think you should move ahead? How will you feel if you quit pursuing this thing you want to do? And what does your best self advise? What you hear may change your life.”
“Still, the word hierarchy is very unpopular these days, and the dictionary definition – ‘a body of ecclesiastical rulers’ – does nothing to make the term more appealing. But in its original sense, hierarchy meant something like an embodiment, in a number of different people, of different degrees of manifestation of reality. So one can speak, for instance, of a hierarchy of living forms – some lower, expressing or manifesting less reality, others higher, expressing or manifesting more reality. There is a continuous hierarchy of living forms from amoebas right up to human beings – the higher the level, the greater the degree of reality. And there is another hierarchy of living forms: the hierarchy from the unenlightened human being right up to the Enlightened Buddha. This corresponds to what in other contexts I have described as the Higher Evolution. Just as the unenlightened human being embodies or manifests more reality, more truth, than the amoeba, in the same way the Enlightened human being embodies or manifests more reality in his or her life and work, and even speech, than does the unenlightened person. The Enlightened person is like a clear window through which the light of reality shines, through which that light can be seen almost as it is. Or one can say that he or she is like a crystal or diamond concentrating and reflecting that light. Between the unenlightened human being and the Enlightened one, the Buddha, there are a number of intermediate degrees, embodied in different people at different stages of spiritual development.
Most people are still short of Enlightenment, to a greater or lesser extent, but at the same time they are not wholly unenlightened. They stand somewhere between the unenlightened state and the state of full Enlightenment, and thus make up the spiritual hierarchy, the higher reaches of which can be referred to as the Bodhisattva hierarchy. By now we know enough about Bodhisattvas to have an appreciation of the intensity of their aspiration and commitment to the spiritual life. But even among Bodhisattvas there are degrees of spiritual attainment. The principle of spiritual hierarchy is very important.”
Source: The Bodhisattva Ideal : Wisdom and Compassion in Buddhism
“Still, there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.”
Source: Crooked House
“Still, there are other factors besides direct social interaction that do make Adam’s guilt on par with his wife’s:
First, Adam didn’t recite the commandments of God the way his wife did before she was fully convinced, nor did he hesitate when he presented the fruit. Genesis 3:6 simply mentioned that he ate it. From this observation, Adam, like his wife, also had the impetuousness to not recite them, let alone listen to God’s commands. Secondly, Genesis 3:6 also mentions that Adam was WITH Eve, who was WITH the snake, meaning that Adam was aware of a sinner (Eve) and a producer of sinners. Eve was directly willing to interact with the snake, but Adam was willing to interact with a sinner and be an eyewitness to the Devil’s temptations, and, even with that, he still was convinced to eat the fruit. In other words, he was both convinced by his human wife and, while being convinced, he had the credulity to condone the production of sin and to also be convinced by the Devil.”
Source: Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics
“Still there are some, braver and more valiant than their peers, who face their demons head on, staring defiantly into the shadows, demanding forgiveness.”
“Still, there is a certain majesty to the town's history. It is a tough, serious place where celebrity is at a minimum and struggle is at a maximum. It was built on commerce, a hard, back-wrenching, blue-collar kind of commerce, the kind that killed men in their early 50s through either working conditions or alcohol, whichever doused the spirit first.”
“Still, there is a magic in the word sister. A magic which speaks of shared roots and shared branches.”
Source: In an Absent Dream
“Still, there was something about her that drew me in like a siren calling to a sailor.
Destructive, certainly, but so beautiful it would almost be worth it
Almost.”
Source: King of Pride
“Still, there was something he'd wanted to know for some time now, and he found he couldn't deny himself this particular opportunity. Very gently, almost stealthily, he leaned forward and rested the backs of his fingers against Susannah's cheek.
He regretted it instantly. For her skin was every bit as soft as he'd dreamed.”
Source: Beauty and the Spy
“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
Source: The Book Thief
“Still, they must have got a few things right," Malcolm says. His green eyes sparkle. "You turned out beautifully, if I may say so."
"Oh, you can say it," I reply, taking a drag off my cigarette. "Whether or not I'll believe you is something else entirely.”
Source: The Bette Davis Club
“Still think she is worth it?” Mahon asked quietly. “Of course. She is my mate.” Mahon sighed. “So you decided then.” “Do you think we’d be laying here bleeding in the snow if I wasn’t sure?” “Good point.”
“Still, this atlas breathes,
amidst the loss and sparks,
a world that ebbs
and seeks its flow.
Its paths unclear,
yet set in time
at traveller’s will.
[Atlas’ Groove]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.”
Source: Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism
“Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“Still, though, I can’t be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I sometimes feel that it’s too vivid, if you know what I mean. And when I start having thoughts like this, the more I think about it, the less I can tell how much of the vividness is real and how much of it my imagination has invented.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.”
“Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of generosity. After all, you practiced rounding up on Kevin from the day he was born.
Me, I’m a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus. At the risk of tautology, I like people only as much as I like them. I lead an emotional life of such arithmetic precision, carried to two or three digits after the decimal, that I am even willing to allow for degrees of agreeableness in my own son. In other words, Franklin: I leave the $17.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.
Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.”
“Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find.”
Source: The Deserted Village, The Traveler, and Other Poems
“Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect are assholes, it's exactly the sort of thing an asshole is apt to say. (183)”
Source: Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years
“Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.”
Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes
“Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.”
“Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.”
“Still too warm, she took off her sweatpants, leaving her in just her tank top and her panties. She rolled onto her belly, trying to get comfortable. As she started to drift off, she heard the zipper on the tent open. Katelyn shrieked as she scrambled to cover herself.
Brantley tried to hide the effect the sight of her tan bottom in black lacy panties was having on him. "Morning, tiger. Nice panties." He grinned.”
Source: Willfully Wanton
“Still trying to block Aunt Lauren out of my mind. Also trying to learn from her paranoia and jealousy like a true adult. While forgetting because it's too much.”
Source: Saoirse Berger's Bookish Lens In La La Land
“Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.”
Source: Mastery
“Still very active
And rarely seen apart
You're teenage geriatrics
Modern and young at heart”
“Still waters, deep dicking.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“Still waters may run deep, but stagnant pools breed decay. Embrace the current, and find your flow.”
“Still waters run deep. All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind.”
“still waters run deep. ~Tabitha”
“Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Still we love
The evil we do, until we suffer it.”
Source: The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
“Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.”
Source: Best Friends
“Still we say as we go,-"Strange to think by the wayWhatever there is to know,That shall we know one day.”
Source: Poems
“Still we shall have to try,' said Frodo. 'It's no worse than I expected. I never hoped to get across. I can't see any hope of it now. But I've still got to do the best I can.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“Still, we will be told, one cannot be in beauty and yet fail to see it.”
Source: [Ennead: Bk. 5] (By: Plotinus) [published: September, 1984]
“Still wearin' Chucks and singin' out of tune I see.”
Source: Undeniable
“Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking
into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—
that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and falling. And I do.”
Source: House of Light