S Quotes
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“Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.”
Source: Self-realization Magazine
“Subtle cues in your behavior will set the frame that you are a selective, high-value guy. She will pick up on this and gain interest. She expects that a guy with potential will be selective. Here are some standards worth considering:
An attractive woman who takes care of herself
A woman who is sociable and has friends
A woman who has a real thirst for life
A woman who has a great energy and a positive outlook
A woman who is not a flake”
Source: The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed
“Subtle distinctions of pronunciation in our language are being lost and words are becoming slimy, spoken often with an idiotic smile as speakers fashionably soften nonexistent consonants. Degenerate. Like children, half-articulate, vacuous, infantile orators roll words around their mouths like hot potatoes, as though they were toothless, they shift them about, squash them, then open their mouths to eject a mash, a sticky pre-masticated porridge, which slides down their chins.”
Source: EEG
“Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.”
Source: Adam Bede
“Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.”
“Subtle! Subtlety is bourgeois. Brecht us that when he popped drama’s cherry. He fucked drama until it stopped being subtle, like a lady, and started being useful, like a whore.”
Source: Short Century
“Subtle voices’ are those positive or negative words that are subtly spoken into our lives. These ‘subtle voices’, although subtle, are too powerful because they tend to shape our thoughts and inform our actions. That is why it is essential that we be selective of what we allow into our thoughts.”
“Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”
“Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.”
“Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.”
“Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.”
Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations
“Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly...Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.”
“Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.”
“Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?”
“Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.”
“Subtract money from your life, whatever you're left with is your true wealth.”
Source: Desires and Destiny
“Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.”
“Subtracting from your list of priorities is as important as adding to it.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.”
“Suburban white youth may deal drugs to their friends and acquaintances as a form of recreation and extra cash, but for ghetto youth, drug sales—though rarely lucrative—are often a means of survival, a means of helping to feed and clothe themselves and their families.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.”
“Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.”
“Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake
“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”
“Suburbia Knocks by Stewart Stafford
Covert dawn's surreptitious light,
A magpie sentry's warning song,
Swooping, scanning silent streets,
Cackling danger all night long.
Metallic cross of crucified clothes,
A choir of colours in the breeze,
Waterboarded by lashing rain,
Made them suffer incrementally.
One knock for no, two knocks for yes,
One and a half for uncertainty,
Three knocks for drinks and company,
The rite of suburban courtesy.
37 years ago, down at number 37,
Came the first and last royal visit,
Dizzying anticipation from first light,
Fading fairytale in a curtsying gibbet.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“Suburbs are just an ant's nest on society.”
“Subversion is what I do.”
“Subversive acts are a biological rebellion. They interrupt fear-based responses and activate neuroplasticity—our brain’s ability to rewire itself.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Subversive acts are a biological rebellion. They interrupt these fear-based responses and activate neuroplasticity—our brain’s ability to rewire itself. Every small act of defiance, joy, and connection strengthens neural pathways for resilience, courage, and critical thinking.”
“Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.”
“Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.”
“subway stations...
passengers who token through life”
“Succede, a volte, di provare una grande attrazione per qualcuno che poco ha a che fare con i nostri valori, le nostre abitudini, le nostre passioni. Che sia chimica, follia, istinto animale poco importa. Ciò che importa è che spesso, invece di dare alle cose il proprio nome, ci si affanna a interpretarle nel modo più indolore possibile, per non mettere in discussione la propria dignità, per tener fede a dogmi e precetti dai quali ci si sta svincolando, senza volerlo ammettere. (…) Si forniscono alibi, giustificazioni, si cercano attinenze che non esistono ma alle quali ci si aggrappa come polpastrelli in una scalata che renderà difficile sgretolare poi la roccia, pena il precipizio.”
Source: La ricompensa
“Succede che, a un certo punto, quel brivido che ci scuote non lo vogliamo più sentire e lo scambiamo per uno spiffero di freddo che disturba il nostro torpore, le nostre abitudini.
Allora ci copriamo, ci infagottiamo di alibi.
I nostri passi si fanno prevedibili, pesanti, come nella neve d'inverno, fino a che smettiamo di camminare.
"Si tira avanti", preferiamo rispondere, e non ci accorgiamo che è indietro che stiamo andando.
Iniziamo a sbuffare dei "lunedì della vita", degli imprevisti, delle continue prime volte, smettiamo di essere curiosi, non vogliamo nulla di nuovo - "basta, grazie, sono a posto così" -, vogliamo che ogni giorno sia "domenica", sprofondati nella tranquillità del nostro piccolo divano e delle nostre piccole certezze.
Scappiamo dall'istinto di vivere e reclamiamo la "vacanza" della vita - "vacanza" che però significa "mancanza, assenza".
Siamo tutti così impegnati nello sforzo inane di respingere quell'istinto così umano di partire.
E alla sera siamo sempre più stanchi, svuotati.”
Source: La misura eroica: Il mito degli Argonauti e il coraggio che spinge gli uomini ad amare
“Succede continuamente. Ogni giorno, in ogni parte del mondo qualche milione di persone dice al milione che ha incontrato: «Non so perché sto raccontando tutte queste cose proprio a te, che ti conosco appena». E invece sa benissimo quello che fa.”
Source: La donna di scorta
“Succeed and give, and it helps you live; But no man can help you die.”
Source: Health, Happiness, & Longevity: Eastern and Western Approach
“Succeed and make those who said you would not make it eat their own words. Prove them wrong with your great work.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.”
“Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.”
“Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing.”
“Succeed in spite of management.”
“Succeed On 'Em!”
“Succeed or die. Either we stop the Apocalypse, or we’re caught right in the middle of it.", FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fade
“Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think you great. […] Contemporary admiration is nothing but short-sightedness. […] The common herd is an old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Succeed through challenge and adversity builds confidence the correct way.”
Source: The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion
“Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.”
Source: Sixty stories
“Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.”