S Quotes
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“Such she often felt herself—struggling against terrific odds to maintain her courage; to
say: "But this is what I see; this is what I see," and so to clasp some miserable remnant of her vision to her breast, which a thousand forces did
their best to pluck from her.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.”
Source: Marley & Me
“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.”
“Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.”
“Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”
“Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.”
“Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.”
Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution
“Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.”
“Such small coincidences can pepper a life with interest.”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“Such sober certainty of waking bliss.”
“Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.”
“Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Such stories ask us to remember that there are little things in the world around us that we
hardly notice but which contain great beauty and strength; that we might learn by taking a closer at places we already thought we knew; that we overlook important knowledge by not asking enough questions of the land around us; that some places in the wilderness are not for us to visit; that there are always small, secret wonders hiding in nature, just out of view.”
Source: Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World
“Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.”
Source: The Poems of John Dryden
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
“Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.”
“Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.”
“Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.”
“Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.”
“Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello
“Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.”
“Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“Such then is the nature of quasispecies : the density of the sequence cloud at any point in sequence space is determined by the relative fitness of the sequence; regions of the cloud representing sequences of lesser fitness will be less densely populated and those with higher fitness, most populated. Here lies the most powerful quality of viral quasispecies: the density distribution of fitness variants dictates that sequences are represented at frequencies in relation to their relative fitness. Genomes with lower fitness will replicate poorly, or not at all, and the fittest genomes will replicate most efficiently. It therefore follows that there is a large bias toward the production of well-adapted genotypes: there are more of them, and they undergo most replicative cycles. This can permit viruses to experience evolutionary adaptation at rates that are orders of magnitude higher than those that could be achieved by truly random unbiased mutation. Sequences rapidly condense around the fittest area of the sequence space. Should the environment change, and, therefore, selective pressures change, a quasispecies can opportunistically exploits its inherent adaptive potential. Genotypes rapidly and ever-faster gravitate toward the cloud's new notational center of gravity. Changes in the fitness landscape of the sequence space that is occupied by a quasispecies are the natural consequence of altered selective pressures operating on the virus population. Such alterations may be the consequence of changed immunologic pressures exerted by the host, the application of antiviral drug therapy, or even cross-species transmission requiring the virus to adapt to a new host. Genotypes that once occupied the 'central' space, reserved for the fittest genotypes, are reduced in frequency and now occupy the more sparsely populated fringes of the fitness landscape; the very edge of the sequence cloud if you will. Here too lies an advantage for a quasispecies: it has a memory. The once best-adapted genotypes, now at a fitness disadvantage, can persist in the quasispecies as minor sequence variants. Under circumstances of fluctuating selective pressures, the ability of the population to recall an 'old' genome variant is a great asset. The quasispecies can rapidly respond and adapt by plucking out a preexisting variant and quickly coalescing around it to recreate an optimal fitness landscape.”
Source: Viruses: Agents of Evolutionary Invention
“Such, then, was the state of my imaginative life; over advise it stood the life of my intellect. The two hemispheres of my mind were in the sharpest contrast. On the one side a many-islanded sea of poetry and myth; on the other a glib and shallow "rationalism". Nearly all that I loved I believed to be imaginary; nearly all that I believed to be real I thought grim and meaningless.”
Source: Suprised by Joy
“Such, then, was the state of my imaginative life; over against it stood the life of my intellect. The two hemispheres of my mind were in the sharpest contrast. On the one side a many-islanded sea of poetry and myth; on the other a glib and shallow "rationalism". Nearly all that I loved I believed to be imaginary; nearly all that I believed to be real I thought grim and meaningless.”
Source: Suprised by Joy
“Such, then, were the men in whose hands lay the welfare of the country. And, it must be confessed, they knew but little and cared still less about the common people for whom they legislated.”
Source: Lud-in-the-Mist
“Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.”
Source: The Life of Arseniev: Youth
“Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.”
“Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.”
Source: The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus
“Such tricks hath strong imagination”
Source: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”
“Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's life, and makes them walk with God, lifting them above fear and love of the world. It enables a Christian to show God to other folks. Such worship comes from heaven, and has the mark of God upon it.”
“Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.”
“Such visions,” she said, “will always be tested. For this is the order of the most Ancient Ones who shape our destiny awaiting the day that we stand by their side as equals.”
“I find myself far from that day,” Sha’han said with an effort at lightness.
“Oh,” mused the Oracle, returning his smile with the greater ease. “It is not far from them to cherish and love that which is a treasure to us. It is only the fear and the anger that drags us away into the shadowed lands. We have to accept that heartache is the twin of love and that it is a good thing, in its own way – for it too reveals the greatness of our connections.”
Source: Lahana
“Such vows . . . strike one with a sort of horror at what happened afterwards.”
Source: Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.”
“Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.”
“Such was also the case with Nietzsche, a volcanic genius if ever there was one. Here, too, there is passionate exteriorization of an inward fire, but in a manner that is both deviated and demented; we have in mind here, not the Nietzschian philosophy, which taken literally is without interest, but his poetical work, whose most intense expression is in part his ‘Zarathustra’. What this highly uneven book manifests above all is the violent reaction of an a priori profound soul against a mediocre and paralyzing cultural environment; Nietzsche’s fault was to have only a sense of grandeur in the absence of all intellectual discernment. ‘Zarathustra’ is basically the cry of a grandeur trodden underfoot, whence comes the heart-rending authenticity – grandeur precisely – of certain passages; not all of them, to be sure, and above all not those which express a half-Machiavellian, half-Darwinian philosophy, or minor literary cleverness. Be that as it may, Nietzsche’s misfortune, like that of other men of genius, such as Napoleon, was to be born after the Renaissance and not before it; which indicates evidently an aspect of their nature, for there is no such thing as chance.”
Source: To Have a Center
“SUCH WAS HIS CONFIDENCE IN HIS FREEDOM
THAT HE NEVER SPREAD HIS WINGS TO CHECK
उसे इतना भरोसा था अपने आज़ाद होने पर
की तमाम ज़िन्दगी उसने फैलाए ही नहीं पर
USEY ITNA BHAROSA THA APNE AAZAD HONE PAR
KI TAMAM ZINDAGI USNE PHAILAYE HI NAHIN PAR”
“Such was life; everything passed away; the fields and woodlands of boyhood became built upon; streets and pavements and lamp posts arose where warblers and willow wrens had sung; nothing ever remained the same.”
Source: The Golden Virgin
“Such was my agony that I had also began to see faces of myself, and my family in others, near the noise and chatter of people waiting for departures and arrivals at railway stations and airports.”
Source: The Trader of War Stories
“Such was puberty, one big masochistic joke set in the halfway house of middle school, where kids endure the three most confusing and sensitive years of their lives, where girls who've already sprouted D cups and know about blow jobs sit beside girls in trainers from the Gap who still have crushes on anime characters. A time when anything that is unique about ourselves, anything that makes us depart ever so slightly from the collective, prototypical vision of popular beauty becomes an agonizing pockmark and self denial the only remedy at hand.”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.”
Source: The River King
“Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.”
“Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.”
“Such was the extent of his power. His fortune bent reality around it. This reality included people—and their perception of the world, like mine, was also caught in the gravitational pull of Bevel’s wealth and warped by it.”
Source: Trust
“Such was the fate of Mr Vanslyperken, who was now seized by the crowd, buffeted, and spit upon, and dragged to the parish pump, there being, fortunately for him, no horse-pond near. After having been well beaten, pelted with mud, his clothes torn off his back, his hat taken away and stamped upon, he was held under the pump and drenched for nearly half-an-hour, until he lay beneath the spout in a state of complete exhaustion”
Source: Snarleyyow: Or, The Dog Fiend. An Historical Novel, Volume 1
“Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.”
Source: Unwanted