S Quotes
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“Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.”
Source: The Angel of Darkness
“Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.”
“Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets.”
“Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.”
“Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.”
“Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.”
“Still, life had a way of adding day to day”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
“Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.”
Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition
“Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.”
“Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.”
“Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.”
Source: D.V.
“Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.”
“Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes on the job—because all that one does in America is considered a "job"—with no clear sense as to what is required or where one will ultimately be led. In that respect, it is as particular an instance of a "calling" as one might point to. For years I've kept in mind, "Many are called but few are chosen." Even so "called," there were no assurances that one would be answered.”
“Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.”
Source: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel
“Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.”
Source: The Stranger
“Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.”
“Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional forms by ignoring those that have been found, and continuing to taunt us with admittedly frequent examples of absence.”
Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history
“Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.”
“Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.”
Source: Local Girls
“Still, small heavenly voices penetrate the heart with their gentle, convincing declarations… Most often, hope, encouragement, and direction come from a soft, piercing voice. Small voices are heard only by those who are willing to listen.”
Source: The Measure of Our Hearts
“Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.”
“Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.”
“Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.”
“Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.”
“Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.”
Source: Throne of Glass
“Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.”
“Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
“Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.”
“Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.”
“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
“Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths to turn people into icons, nor did he presume to show their “true nature” in something so transient as a photograph. Instead, he used photography's special qualities to suggest intimate things about his subjects, things that cannot be put into words, and may not even be possible to put into pictures.”
“Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.”
Source: Van Gogh's
“Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.”
“Still, there remains so much to relish and remember.”
“Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.”
Source: Lock and Key
“Still, there's that faint glimmer of hope we feel when we sense, in other people, the same kind of attentiveness to life that we take comfort in. Why else would anyone watch Haneke films or read Sebald? The material is grim, but it's redeemed by the quality of the attention.”
“Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.”
“Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what made it even worse was the fact that neither warrior seemed to realize the effect he had on others.”
Source: The Wedding
“Still, this whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual. Or a diagram of some kind. A flowchart would have been nice.”
Source: The Charley Davidson Series
“Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now”
“Still, vicious or virtuous,
Love suits most of us.”
Source: Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis
“Still, waking up this early was just wrong. “Why can’t people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?” I whined.”
Source: My Life as a White Trash Zombie: A White Trash Zombie Novel
“Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?”
“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.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“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 fading. And I do.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.”
Source: Summer Crossing: A Novel
“Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.”
“Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?”
“Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to so many. The problem is getting bodies into seats.”