S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.”
“See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money. Right now the value is in non-callable bonds. Most bonds are callable so when they start going up in price, the debtor calls them away from you. But the non-callable bonds, especially those non-callable for 25-30 years, can go way up in price if interest rates go way down.”
“See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.”
“See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.”
“See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.”
Source: Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.”
Source: The Garden
“See the light in losing your employment”
“See the Light in Others, and Treat Them as if That is All you See.”
“See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.”
“See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.”
Source: Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics
“See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.”
“See the minutes, how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.”
“See the miracles through the wisdom within.”
“See the moon? It hates us.”
Source: Sixty stories
“See the mountains kiss high Heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea -
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?”
“See the music, hear the dance.”
“See the openness of the ocean. Now feel that your mind is more open and welcoming than that.”
“See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.”
“See the opportunity in the misstep.”
“See the oppressed and the oppressor, and you will find the one that God will take part in on the day of judgment.”
“See the other person's potential for kindness and bolster your own expression of kindness. If you see them in a negative way, the power of your perception will only help to keep them that way as you polarize yourself from them, assuming a superior role, seeing yourself as the good guy and them as the bad guy.”
“See the passion kiss the lips. Don't let this person slip by. They've given you a lustful heart. An emotional gift.”
“See the past memories as just information, not a hard reality that you have lived. Then they will become detachable like a Pen Drive. Everything around you will feel new. You will be like a Time traveller who has just checked in to this moment.”
“See, the people for whom you least want to pray are the people for whom you most need to pray; but the others on which they all love to prey, make them brothers: then place your love in their way, laying what comes from up above on display.”
“See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.”
Source: Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama
“See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and don't hold on to judgements.”
“See, the problem in this world ain’t sinners, or even the dead. It is men who will step on anyone who stands in the way of their pursuit of power. Luckily there will always be people like me to stop them”
Source: Dread Nation
“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
“See, the problem with boobs is if you have big ones, you can never look thin. You get these burns on your shoulders from bra straps, and your back hurts. And unless you're using them for their intended purpose, they're always in the way."
"In the way of what? My hands, My face? Don't you blaspheme in here." He looked up to the sky. "She didn't mean it, Lord. Promise.”
Source: Beautiful Player
“See the ridiculous in everything.”
“See the sales process for what it is-- a big assembly line.”
Source: The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
“See, the second reason we have burial rites is that they give people a change to say goodbye. Watching a body get put in the ground or go up in flames or be consigned to the deep, you get the sense there's no coming back. You feel that door slam closed. And you cry or laugh or whatever's your deal, but in some place deep inside, you know things will never be the same. They call that closure.
That's the theory, anyways”
“See the 'self'
in all that exists
let love be your
sole spiritual practice.”
“See the soul.”
“See the stars, Lily?"
She sighed, surrendering. "Of course."
"Do you think they can see the sun coming up?"
"I don't know. Probably?"
"Do you think they're scared?"
"They're burning balls of gas, Calder."
"Oh, c'mon. Where's the poet in you?"
She exhaled, and I sensed her smile. "I see. Well, in that case, yes. They've finally come home. They are triumphant in their midnight kingdom. But the enemy approaches. They have the numbers on their side, but the enemy is bigger, stronger, with a history of winning that goes back to the dawn of time. They're definitvely terrified."
I nodded. She understood my analogy.
"But they don't run, Calder.”
Source: Lies Beneath
“See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“See the system. When you find yourself stuck in an oversimplified polarized conflict, a useful first step is to try to become more aware of the system as a whole: to provide more context to your understanding of the terrain in which the stakeholders are embedded, whether they are disputants, mediators, negotiators, lawyers, or other third parties. This can help you to see the forest and the trees; it is a critical step toward regaining some sense of accuracy, agency, possibility, and control in the situation.”
Source: The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts
“See the thing about guys is that I didn't really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable. I don't know why, not exactly. I just, I don't know, I just didn't belong. I think it embarrasssed the hell out of me that I was a guy. And it really depressed me that there was the distinct possibility that I was going to grow up and be like one of the assholes.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“See, the thing is, I had a little misunderstanding with Trent Gibson in Pre-Calculus earlier. I dropped my textbook on his face—accidentally, while we were discussing some…equations—and he thought I was trying to brain him. So of course, he narked to Shoemaker, and apparently accidents are grounds for disciplinary action these days.”
Source: Promiscuous
“see the things that you want as already yours”
Source: The Secret
“See, the things we do, everything—the universe is watching. Good and bad. And that motherfucker is making a list like a goddammed accountant. And, in the end, all the accounts have to balance.”
Source: Tooth for Tooth
“See the truth. Feel the truth. Be the truth.”
“See the truth, see not lies,
Don't be a fool, be wise!”
“See the truth, and you will see me.”
“See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin Beam.”
Source: The Waste Lands
“See the USA in your Chevrolet, America is asking you to call, Drive your Chevrolet through the USA, America’s the greatest land of all.
[Quoting The Dinah Shore Chevy Show theme song, c. 1952, in an epigraph to Chapter 11: See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above.]”
Source: The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
“See the valentine I made for Linus? On the inside, I wrote, To my sweet babboo." "He says he's not your sweet babboo." "What does he know?”
“See, the violent cursed host came rushing through the open buildings, threatening cruel perils to the blessed men; and after slaying with mad savagery the rest of the associates, they approached the holy father, to compel him to give up the precious metals wherein lie the holy bones of St. Columba; but the monks had lifted the shrine from its pediments. and had placed it in the earth, in a hollowed barrow, under a thick layer of turf, because they knew then of the wicked destruction to come.”
“See the wild birds on the wing,
Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
When you feel like singin', sing--
Keep a-goin'!”
“See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc