S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.”
“Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.”
“Seeing the skylines
The heart becomes pensive and still;
Mammoth is the world,
Our existence…almost nil!”
“Seeing the small is called clarity.”
Source: Daodejing: The New, Highly Readable Translation of the Life-Changing Ancient Scripture Formerly Known as the Tao Te Ching
“Seeing the small is called Clarity.
Keeping flexible is called Strength.
Using the shining Radiance,
You enter the Light,
Where no harm can come to you.
This is called Enlightenment.”
“Seeing the smile and happiness on your parents faces,that is the glorious moment of success.”
“Seeing the society that the Cuban people were attempting to build inspired me to believe it was possible to arrange a nation’s priorities to meet the needs of the majority of its people instead of just those of its corporations and super rich.”
Source: Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969-1976
“Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage.”
“Seeing the transformation in Aaron made me wonder how it would feel to have someone-even a not-so-nice guy like Aaron- look at me the way he looked at Anjali.”
Source: The Grimm Legacy
“Seeing the truth is a significant advantage for decision making under pressure.”
Source: The Truth Engine: Cross-Examination Outside the Box
“Seeing the truth was never easy, especially when it revealed those closest to us could be monsters hidden in plain sight.”
Source: Stalking Jack the Ripper
“seeing the value stream in action a second time allows the team to learn more deeply. Team members nearly always make additional discoveries during the second walk.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.”
“Seeing the way that God has been faithful to work what appears to be a tragedy for our good and His glory has been the greatest source of joy and comfort. The gift of a son is pretty amazing as well.”
“Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong.”
“Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.”
“Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.”
“Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.”
Source: Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
“Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.”
“Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.”
Source: A Colored Woman in a White World
“Seeing them, stretched out from one end of the valley to the other like a giant braid of gold and red, I was struck again by how beautiful armies could be - until the fighting starts.”
Source: Tomorrow
“Seeing them today… was this still that renowned Qing Jing Peak which produced countless youths full of pretentious literary airs?
This whole place was a trusteeship for ADHD children.”
Source: 人渣反派自救系統 下
“Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.”
Source: Leviathan
“Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the teaching of the Church, transmitted in orderly succession from the apostles, and remaining in the Churches to the present day, is still preserved, that alone is to be accepted as truth which differs in no respect from ecclesiastical and apostolica tradition.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)
“Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.”
Source: Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)
“Seeing things? Don't go to an
analyst—see the Commission—
if it doesn't find you first!”
“Seeing this did more for Jo than the wisest sermons, the saintliest hymns, the most fervent prayers that any voice could utter. For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life––uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self–forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.”
“Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.”
Source: On the Origin of Species
“Seeing this, I can’t imagine seeing it again and not thinking that the world is a gift.”
Source: The Definitions
“Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.”
“Seeing through deception doesn’t mean becoming cold. It means becoming clear.”
“Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“Seeing through is rarely seeing into.”
Source: Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms
“Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.”
“Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.”
Source: Thoughts
“Seeing Tully was stung by the reference to ancient church canon long since abandoned, Kulgan softened his tone “No disrespect to you, Tully. But don’t try to teach an old thief to steal. I know your order chops logic with the best of them, and that half your brother clerics fall into laughing fits when they hear those deadly serious young acolytes debate theological issues set aside a century ago. Besides which, isn’t the legend of the lost art an Ishapian dogma?”
Source: Magician
“Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.”
“Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.”
Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes
“Seeing’ two-dimensional images is therefore something that we learn to do; it is not an inevitable part of being human.”
Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“Seeing two female characters discuss science in a fictional streaming series or movie, without talking about romance, tears me up. More, please!”
Source: Hoganthology: Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology
“Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.”
“SEEING VOICES by Michael Jackson
This song makes me want to dance with a brollie in an open field, in a Julie Andrews kind of way.”
“Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.”
“Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about”
“Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.”
“Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.”
“Seeing what was needed in the hospital firsthand - someone needs to come in and just be with patients, without trying to take their blood or change the bedpan, and to give them human-to-human touch.”
“Seeing who we really are--which requires seeing ourselves in relationship to God--is true humility.
Humility is taking our place, no matter how small (or big), and fulfilling that place with a heart overflowing with love.”
Source: On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
“Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.”
“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”