S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.”
“Sure the jews killed jesus, but the guy was an awful carpenter”
“Sure, the Leaning Tower of Pisa leaned like everyone else said it would, the mountains of Tibet were more beautiful than you had ever expected, and the Pyramids of Egypt stood mysteriously in the sea of sand like in the pictures; yet is it the environment or rather the openness in mindset, that makes up the elusive essence of happiness that we experience when we travel?”
“Sure, the outcome was favourable, but what was the cost? Wasn't changing the way she felt about something not far from taking away her free will altogether?”
Source: Isla's Inheritance
“Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.”
“Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.”
Source: Songs and Ballads ... Fourth edition
“Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.”
Source: The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it.”
“Sure, there are a lot of things that we do and that are done to us that are painful. But if we don’t remember, who will tell these stories? How will we learn?”
Source: Hope For Chattanooga
“Sure there are all the little regrets, the broken dreams, but you have to go easy on yourself, and be flexible. Having had the chance to make things disappear from the world in order to gain just one more day of life, I've come to realize that there's a certain beauty in those regrets. Because it's proof of having lived. I won't eliminate anything more from the world. And I may regret it at the moment I actually die, but that's OK with me. No matter how you look at it, life is full of regrets anyway.”
Source: 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]
“Sure, there are dead stars. But at least before they died, they were stars.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Sure, there are dead stars. But at least before they died, they were stars.
And their death was a supernova - their death demanded attention.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Sure, there are dead starts. But before they died, they were stars.
And their death was a supernova - that demanded attention.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.”
“Sure, there are good things, lots, sure, blow jobs, chocolate mousse, winning streaks, the warm fire in your enemy’s house, good book, hunk of cheese, flagon of ale, office raise, championship ring, the misfortunes of others, sure, good things, beyond count, queens, kings, old clocks, comfy clothes, lots, innumerable items in stock, baseball cards and bingo buttons, pot-au-feu, listen, we could go on and on like a long speech, sure it’s a great world, sights to see, canyons full of canyon, corn on the cob, the eroded great pyramids, contaminated towns, eroded hillsides, deleafed trees, those whitened limbs stark and noble in the evening light, geeeez, what gobs of good things, no shit, service elevators, what would we do without, and all the inventions of man, Krazy Glue and food fights, girls wrestling amid mounds of Jell-O, drafts of dark beer, no end of blue sea, formerly full of fish, eroded hopes, eruptions of joy, because we’re winning, have won, won, won what? the . . . the Title.”
Source: Tests of Time
“Sure, there are little victories here and there that may seem like lucky breaks, but luck is simply when preparation meets opportunity.”
“Sure, there are many roads to heaven. But there is only one that actually gets there.”
“Sure there are people who do everything "I do my own beats, my own lyrics, my own mixing, my own mastering, my own art, my own booking, my own managing, my own merch" it's like... ya that sucks, it can't be very good for you, and might be why you aren't getting ahead because you really need to focus on the music where others should be focusing on those other aspects.”
“Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.”
Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller
“Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the responsibility as consumers and as investors to avoid them like the plague. If we do, they won't last very long. Doing what's right is the only possible formula for long-term - I emphasize long term - business success.”
“Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.”
“Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not,
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes
“Sure, there were a few more duct-taped tears in the vinyl seats, a few new dings in the fiberglass surfboards lining the walls, but the bacon was still crisp and pancakes were available twenty-four hours a day, the way the good Lord intended.”
“Sure there will always be regrets and broken dreams , but you have to go easy on yourself....there's a certain beauty in those regrets. They're proof of having lived.”
“Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.”
“Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy, but that's always gonna be the case. I suppose if climate change happens much faster than even the dire experts predict, then I suppose opinions will change.”
“Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.”
“Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?”
“Sure they're animals. You think you just found out a new principle? Sometimes I wonder just how naive you really are. The French lords and ladies used to screw after the guillotinings. The old Romans used to stuff each other during the gladiatorial matches. That's entertainment, Garraty. It's nothing new.”
Source: The Long Walk
“Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and fighters. Boxing is not a life-taking sport. Boxing is not a violent sport; it's an art, a dance, a science. Sometimes the smarter boxer wins and sometimes the stronger boxer wins. Of course aggression is a feminine quality. It's a quality that exists in human beings whether they are men or women.”
“Sure thing, Gumdrop.”
Source: Silence
“Sure thing, Kris. A man’s gotta get a wage.”
Source: Slaughterhouse
“Sure thing, Gumdrop. -Scott”
“Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy?”
“Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life within me can’t have the same experience.”
“Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.”
“Sure we all need money but what do you really focus on? It is a matter of the heart. If your thoughts are on material and worldly things, no good fruits can come out of it.
Seek the kingdom of God first and the other things shall be added unto you not vice versa.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Sure we can cut grass. But we can’t even create a single blade of that which we’re cutting. And I often wonder if our inability to create drives our desire to manage which robs us of the ability to appreciate.”
“Sure we can talk, sure we can work, go out, smile, laugh to keep you happy. Yes we can talk about it. But when I look up at the moon at night, I feel more comfort in the thought of death and relief in all directions of pain, than what anyone can do with words and notes. If I can live with the stars, why wouldn't I be happier”
“Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bombs, weapons of mass paint. I don’t want to live in a world where my kids have to worry about what color they will be in the morning.”
Source: Zombies Love Pizza
“Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - gradutaing, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expecations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens.
And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.”
“Sure we do," said Theo, swatting at a branch. "We get to the spring, Alia gets cured. We argue over the best choice for our We Saved The World victory dance."
"I do enjoy your optimism," said Diana.
"And I admire your ability to lift a car over your head without breaking a sweat and look fine as hell doing it," said Theo with a bow.”
Source: Wonder Woman: Warbringer
“Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.”
Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
“Sure we girls can wear pants now, and vote, and go to college, have a bank account, get a job that is not just stewardess or nurse. But we still have to deal with micro-aggressions and daily sexism. We are still fighting for word over our own bodies. We still get the short shrift on equal pay. We're still not represented in media or the arts with total parity. Not on screen or on the page or behind the scenes. It's still not easy. There is still this constant low-grade fight to be seen and taken seriously when you are a girl and when you become a woman. It totally sucks.”
“Sure, we had no audience but each other, but what kind of supervillains would we be if we didn't keep up the drama?”
Source: Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
“Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.”
“Sure, we're blood. But it's the sisterly love we share that binds us beyond our genetics.”
Source: Poor Vinnie's Valor
“Sure, we’re both on our own, but now we’re on our own together. Sometimes I wonder if I rescued him or if he rescued me. Maybe it doesn’t matter.”
Source: The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
“Sure, we thought the acres
That we tilled were sacred,
But how could we have known
That wheat can haunt like ghosts”
“Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”