S Quotes
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“Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.”
Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron
“Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.”
“Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.”
“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
“Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.”
“Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.”
“Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.”
“Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.”
“Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.”
“Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing."”
“Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.”
“Swollen labe.”
“Swoon. I'll catch you.”
“Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.”
Source: Timequake
“Sword-arm pauses. War-heat recedes.
Sacred soul-sister silently pleads
For only peace, which never has been.
Only has such been seen within
A soul with the humblest, most basic needs.
That soul I've fleetingly seen before,
Crossing my path when I'd naught left in store-
Nothing to which war-poet may run.
Soul-sister-Soul-Angel- seeing poet undone,
Paused, to hand war-poet gold from her Core.”
Source: Embattled We: A Poet's War
“Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel.”
“Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.”
“Swordplay was like dancing - certain steps must be followed or else it would fall apart.”
Source: Throne of Glass
“Swords and knives make me feel vulnerable.”
“Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.”
“Swords are no good against the ironmen, unless the men who wield them know how to walk on water.”
“Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Forces can bend heads, but not minds.”
“Swords can’t solve every problem.”
“Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.”
Source: John for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 11-21
“Swords, Guns and AI
Technology will take us far, far
and farther, until it dumps us
back where we came from, in the
caves, but of concrete ruins.
We will once again fight with
spears and axes, made of broken
bits of chips and circuit boards.
Silicon, lithium, gold, all will
be worthless, apes will barter
again with sheep and boars.
Yesterday's world was obsessed with swords,
today's world is obsessed with guns,
tomorrow's world will be obsessed with AI,
and it always ends up with death and destruction.
Day after tomorrow it'll be business as usual,
savage world will be back obsessing with fire,
then again with swords, then guns, and so on,
till the sky pours ashes and seas boil over.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your father was not the first. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.”
“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and armies have crumbled into rabbles under the onslaught of cholera spirilla, or of dysentery and typhoid bacilli. Huge areas have bee devastated by the trypanosome that travels on the wings of the tsetse fly, and generations have been harassed by the syphilis of a courtier. War and conquest and that herd existence which is an accompaniment of what we call civilization have merely set the stage for these more powerful agents of human tragedy.”
Source: Rats, Lice and History
“Swords. That is no faenorn ; that is slaughter.”
The Grand Seneschal shrugged. “The Master did not protest. And, indeed, what weapon could he have suggested that would suit him any better?”
“Fire,” she said.
“He would not,” said the Seneschal. “You know he would not.”
Source: Chalice
“Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.”
Source: Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author
“swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.” Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. “Courage, Your Majesty.” “I will kill him.” “The Beast Lord or Barabas?” “Both.”
Source: Magic Slays
“Sworn to avenge
Condemn to Hell
Tempt not the blade
All fear the Sentinel”
“SWOT is cool, but strategic thinkers know that there is a point which:
- Strengths become weaknesses
- Weaknesses become strengths
- Opportunities become threats
- Threats become opportunities
Strategic entrepreneurs and leaders find the greatest insights hiding behind SWOT.
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“Swung by the swing of her seat in her tantalizing gait, her hair in plait pictured a pendulum that caressed her bottom.”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“Sya Omga had one regret: being able to kill her father only once.”
Source: Three Immortals
“SYAIR YANG CANTIK DI MATA
Resmi orang bercinta,
adanya kesetiaan,
adanya ambil berat,
Cinta sejati pula,
tidak bertambah kerana kebaikkan,
tidak kurang pula kerana kesalahan.
Jodoh memang rezeki,
sedangkan rezeki pula perlu diusahakan,
tidak datang bergolek.
Di dalam berusaha pula,
banyak pilihan,
pada pilihan hadirnya persaingan,
Pada persaingan tersingkap kesungguhan.
Yang cantik di mata,
belum tentu berkenan di hati,
Yang baik di hati,
belum tentu zahir cantik di mata.
Mata lalat nampak sampah,
mata lebah nampak madu.
Jika cantik itu hapus,
harta itu habis,
keturunan itu kurang,
maka agama dan akhlak penenang jiwa,
Maka soleh untuk solehah,
solehah untuk soleh.”
“Sybil tells me your little festival is an annual occurrence," she said, the cadence of her voice swooning like a lullaby. "Yes," Kai said, lifting a shrimp wonton between his chopsticks. "It falls on the ninth full moon if each year." "Ah, how lovely for you to base your holidays on the cycles of my planet." Kai wanted to scoff at the word planet but sucked it back down his throat.”
“Sybil was now banging on about how hard Humph worked and the havoc caused by boarding school fees for seven. Jack refrained from telling her that you would expect seven children to be more expensive to raise than one or two and that no one had an electric cattle prod on either her rump or Humph's as they herded their offspring into private schools.”
Source: Portrait of the Artist's Wife
“Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.”
“Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.”
“Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“Sycophant learns from dogs.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Sycorax has grown into a hoop”
“Syd, are you not wearing a bra?” Before I could answer, his hands drifted up further, until the fingertips brushed the swells of my breasts. “You’re not. Very naughty, Syd.”
Source: Frigid
“Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish and lots of mascara and black eye shadow, and he was so mysterious. It was this androgynous thing I found absolutely fascinating.”
“Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.”
Source: Body Surfing: A Novel
“Sydney, don't leave Adrian because of me."
"It's more complicated than that," I said automatically.
"It's really not," she said. "From everything I've seen and heard, you're just afraid. You've always controlled every detail of your life. When you couldn't-like with the Alchemists-you found a way to seize back that control."
"There is nothing wrong with wanting control," I snapped.
"Except that we can't always have it, and sometimes that is a good thing. A great thing, even," she added. "And that's how it is with Adrian. No matter how hard you try, you aren't going to be able to control your feelings for him. You can't help loving him, and so you're running away. I'm just an excuse.”
Source: The Indigo Spell
“Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.”
Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel
“Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.”
“Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.”