S Quotes
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“Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn't mean anything." "Yes, it meant something. Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?”
Source: East of Eden
“Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret...”
“Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.”
Source: The subtle knife
“Seems today everyone is waiting for someone or someday.
Some-one and Some-day don’t exist!
There is only YOU and only NOW.
Now is the time for YOU to take SWIFT ACTION with FIERCE Focus!”
Source: Tony Dovale's SoulShift - 1 Minute Wisdom Poetry & insights to transform your life.
“Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.”
“Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”
“seen and revered but never known.”
Source: The Knight and the Moth
“Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due.”
Source: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
“Seen from a distance, the hill of Montmartre hadn't changed much since Roman times. For centuries, old vines had grown there tended by local nuns in the Middle Ages, though the vineyards nowadays had either been built upon or lapsed into waste ground. But one pleasant change had occurred, a number of wooden windmills had gathered near the summit, their lumbering sails turning in the wind, giving the hill a picturesque appearance.”
Source: Paris
“Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are. And when you live in complete acceptance of what is — which is the only sane way to live — there is no “good” or “bad” in your life anymore. There is only a higher good — which includes the “bad.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.”
“Seen from inside the bar, the avenue, the stores opposite, the street glimpsed going off at right angles, the trapezoid of sky visible above the lower buildings, are altered by the tinted windows into an elsewhere, oddly peaceful, a desert or the interior of the sea. Sometimes when he has fallen asleep face upward in the sun, his dreams have taken on this quality of supernatural bright darkness. ("Novelty")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created.
Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could.”
Source: Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
“Seen from the moon we are all the same size.”
Source: The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli
“Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not it is amateur night. . . . Either musicals should be written for specified performers in the first place, or they should be cast with people who are adequate to its dancing, acting and singing demands.”
“Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses
“Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.”
“Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them.”
“Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment, to greater and greater autonomy of individuals, greater and greater development of sense organs and nervous systems conveying and processing information about the state of the organism's surroundings, and finally greater and greater consciousness. You can call this direction progress or by some other name.”
“Seen in the context of Donald Trump having committed sales tax fraud in the past, which is indisputable, I think that it's reasonable for the American public to ask, did you go beyond what's lawful, maybe scandalously lawful, but lawful, and violate the law?”
“Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.”
“Seen in this light, what strikes many modern readers as the ludicrous attention to detail in the book Leviticus, involving God in the minutiae of daily life—all the cooking and cleaning of a people's domestic life—might be revisioned as the very love of God. A God who cares so much as to desire to be present in everything we do.”
Source: The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work
“Seen in this way, it represents a challenge of the grassroots to the elite, of popular to the official, of the weak to the strong...
...More than twenty years have passed since Tiananmen protests of 1989, and from today's perspective their greatest impact has been the lack of progress in reforming the political system. It's fair to say political reform was taking place in the 1980s, even if its pace was slower than that of economic reform. After Tiananmen, however, political reform ground to a halt, while economy began breakneck development. Because of this pradox we find ourselves in a reality full of contradictions: conservative here, radical there; the concentration of political power on this side, the unfettering of economic interests on that; dogmatism on the one hand, anarchism on hte other; toeing the line here, tossing away the rule book there. Over the past twenty years our development has been uneven rather than comprehensive, and this lopsided development is compromising the health of our society.
It seems to me that the emergence - and unstoppable momentum - of the copycat phenomenon is an inevitable consequence of this lopsided development. The ubiquity and sharpness of social contradictions have provoked confusion in people's value systems and worldview, thus giving birth to the copycat effect, when all kinds of social emotions accumulate over time and find only limited channels of release, transmuted constantly into seemingly farcical acts of rebellion that have certain anti-authoritarian, anti-mainstream, and anti-monopoly elements. The force and scale of copycatting demonstrate that the whole nation has taken to it as a form of performance art.”
“Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good.”
Source: Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho
“Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.”
“Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.”
“Seen the sunrise from Mount Fuji, sunset in the Gobi, seen the midnight sun in the Arctic Circle, seen glaciers crack off and slide down mountainsides, seen ice calve off the shelf into bergs the size of cities. I've seen flocks of birds so thick the sun goes dark, seen a lioness give birth in the wild, seen the bottom of the ocean and top of the world. Seen some of the most beautiful women from just about ever country on the globe, seen 'em anywhere from totally nude to garbed in the full panoply of state." I couldn't, didn't try to look away from her, from the way the water caught the light and the way the towel both hid and revealed her curves all at once. "Never in my life have I seen anything so beautiful and breathtaking as you, right now, just like that.”
Source: Goode Vibrations
“Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.”
“Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.”
“Seest thou not those who change Allah's favor for disbelief and make their people to alight in the abode of perdition-”
“Sefaletlerinin nedenlerini tarafsız ve nesnel bir gözle araştıran insanlar neredeyse her zaman trajikomik bir sonuçla karşı karşıya kalırlar: Suçlular, hevesle destekledikleri kendi seçtikleri hırsız politikacılardır!”
“Segala hal yang dikatakan Komandan mengenai Orde adalah kebenaran yang tidak dilebih-lebihkan. Orde memang bersinonim dengan kebaikan. Orde menghargai kemajuan. Orde mencintai kehidupan. Orde bahkan mengajarkan pertobatan. Semua yang dijabarkan di dalam Kitab pada dasarnya akan berakhir pada kebahagiaan, pun setelah kematian.
Akan tetapi Orde dan Kitab adalah takdir. Yang tidak dapat dibantah dan harus diterima semua orang dengan pasrah.
Sama seperti penglihatanku, Orde tidak memberikan pilihan.”
Source: Fantasy Fiesta 2010: Antologi Cerita Fantasi Terbaik 2010
“segala ikrar dan janji yang dituangnya
ada yang cair bersama air
menjadi lumpur
ada yang reput bersama rumput
menjadi lumut
ada yang dimakan anai-anai
menjadi habuk”
Source: Seberkas Kunci
“Segala kejahatan manusia dan kesuksesan manusia diawali oleh satu hal yang sama : iri hati. Terserah manusianya, rasa ini mau diarahkan ke kebaikan atau ke kejahatan.”
Source: Ada Sesuatu Di Kamar Mandi
“Segala perkara dapat kutanggung di dalam Dia yang memberi kekuatan kepadaku.”
“Segala sakit, keluh, tangis, dendam, amarah, entah di mana. Aku tidak yakin telah meninggalkannya di suatu tempat. Tapi meski aku juga tidak mau membawanya lagi, aku tak bisa memastikan bahwa semua rasa itu pergi begitu saja. Aku antara kosong dan tiada.”
Source: Ayah, Lelaki Itu Mengkhianatiku
“Segala sesuatu di bawah matahari tidak ada yang berdiri sendiri.”
Source: Secangkir Coklat Panas
“Segala yang berdosa itu
menyelit dalam samar,
berselindung di sebalik kelam,
tersembunyi dalam pekat hitam.
(Malam)”
Source: Matahari Itu Jauh
“Segala yang dihasrat tapi tak didapat adalah nikmat yang paling padat.”
“segalanya berubah, kecuali waktu
yang memiliki rahasia sendiri
misteri yang ditulis diam-diam oleh tuhan”
Source: Upacara Bakar Rambut
“Segalanya di semesta ini nisbi”
Source: Puspabangsa
“segalanya jadi museum pertanyaan,
sejak kau menolak jadi segala jawaban”
Source: Mengunjungi Hujan yang Berteduh di Matamu
“Segalanya menjadi mudah
dengan mudah-mudahan”
Source: Surat Kopi
“Segalanya telah terlambat dan ia tetap bukan milik siapa-siapa. Alat-alat kosmetik yang paling muthakir dan makanan yang paling bergizipun tidak lagi banyak dapat membantunya. Pada waktu itulah Nuning baru menyadari sepenuhnya bahwa segalanya hanyalah sementara, termasuk kecantikan yang dimilikinya. Kesementaraan itulah yang melemparkan manusia ke puncak atau membenamkannya ke dasar yang paling dalam. Kesementaraan itulah yang membuat manusia saling berkejaran dengan waktu. Ketinggalan mungkin akan mempertemukan manusia pada kehancuran, di samping akan menghadapkannya pada berbagai alternatif yang lebih mengerikan.”
Source: Wanita Itu Adalah Ibu
“Segmented killing and hatred will only stop when we enlarge our personal, national, and international circles of concern to include all six billion people on this planet: not just the white ones, Christian ones, American ones, female ones, or any ones. Simply put: every one.”
“Segmenting your sample is one of the easiest ways to simplify.”
“Segregation and separation can be a good thing.
The person collecting money for your cannabusiness should not be the one that is in charge of doing the receivables or doing the reconciliations.
Segregate and separate those three tasks to three different people.
Person 1 - collects the money
Person 2 - invoices for the money
Person 3 - reconciles the money.
This allows for lesser chances of collusion, lesser chances of people walking with money and lesser chances of being fined or penalized by the state.”
“Segregation has no place in the education system.”
“Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.”
Source: H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator