S Quotes
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“Sensibility is the power of woman.”
“Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.”
“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.”
“Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.”
Source: Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness
“Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.”
Source: Green Dolphin Street
“Sensible Love Sonnet
A heart measurable is no heart at all,
For a heart that expands not, is dead.
Love sensible is no love at all,
Love that makes sense is love of the dead.
Raise your head, reach out with heart,
And the whole world will fall at your feet.
Better senseless in love than loveless in logic,
Heartiness is no forte of the intellectual elite.
It is far better to fall in love and suffer,
Than to spend your life as a farmer awaiting rain.
Scars of love are not scars but the elixir of life,
Life without such suffering is a life gone in vain.
Regret not that you suffer in love, regret if you don't.
I'd give up all my brains for a moment of love's angst.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens”.”
Source: The Great Game
“Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.”
“Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.”
“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement”
“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.”
“Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.”
Source: How to be Idle
“Sensible people find nothing useless.”
“Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]”
“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime”
“Sensible people have got to work together.”
“Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives, such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, have been introduced without any attempt to link the emissions controls with the benefits of the lower emissions.”
Source: Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming
“Sensing another maternal oration coming on, one of those I-bore-you-and-thus-know-what’s-best-for-you lectures, Richard made a pointed move towards the door. ‘If that’s all for the moment, Mother, I really must be off. The War Office…’
The marchioness gave another of her infamous
harrumphs.
‘Have a good time at White’s, darling,’ she said pointedly.
Richard paused halfway out the door and flashed her an incredulous look. ‘How do you always know?’
Lady Uppington looked smug. ‘Because I’m your mother. Now, shoo! Get along with you!”
Source: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
“Sensing heaven in the ocean of clouds, you fill yourself with light. Lost in the vastness, you too become of the boundless sky and you realize, every moment becomes a prayer to God. Something alters you. Eternally, you become a prayerful soul.”
“Sensing my delight at seeing his laptop, Tom asked me, "William, have you ever seen the Internet?"
"No."
In a quiet conference room, Tom sat me down at his computer and explained the track pad, how the motion of my fingers guided the arrow on the screen.
"This is Google," he said. "You can find answers to anything. What do you want to search for?"
"Windmill."
In one second, he'd pulled up five million page results-pictures and models of windmills I'd never even imagined.”
Source: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“Sensing the manifestations of God, like a bird singing in the sky, or a moon manifesting a flood of light, or a bud becoming a flower, is being drunkenly alive. Every moment becomes a spiritual sunrise.”
“Sensing “the whole world, as it were, placed within the
grasp of the Evil One,” and waiting for death to visit him
too, he wrote, “I leave parchment to continue this work, if
perchance any man survive and any of the race of Adam
escape this pestilence and carry on the work which I have
begun.” Brother John, as noted by another hand, died of the
pestilence, but he foiled oblivion.”
Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.”
“Sensitive does not mean weak. Sensitive people know how to stay strong when life drags them down.”
Source: The Next Second
“Sensitive husbands don't like second billing.”
Source: A Portrait of Joan: The Autobiography of Joan Crawford
“Sensitive husbands don't like second billing. I don't believe Franchot ever for a moment resented the fact that I was a star. Possibly he resented Hollywood's refusal to let him forget it. There was never a doubt in my mind that his talent was greater than mine.”
Source: A Portrait of Joan: The Autobiography of Joan Crawford
“Sensitive," I tried.
Sam translated: "Squishy."
"Creative."
"Dangerously emo."
"Thoughtful."
"Feng shui."
I laughed so hard I snorted. "How do you get feng shui out of 'thoughtful'?"
"You know, because in feng shui, you arrange furniture and plants and stuff in thoughtful ways." Sam shrugged. "To make you calm. Zenlike. Or something. I'm not one hundred percent sure how it all works, besides the thoughtful part.”
Source: Shiver
“Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'”
“Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.”
“Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.”
“Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.”
“Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage.”
“Sensitive people meet each other. And then they bond slowly. But the bond remains strong forever.”
“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.”
“Sensitive teeth are a classic sign you are grinding your teeth during sleep.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“Sensitive to slight, they police even unintentional verbal offenses; concerned with the oppressed, they champion minorities and vilify the privileged; reliant on help, they publicly air lists of grievances. The university is the epicenter of victimhood culture. As such it is the epicenter of microaggression complaints, as well as trigger warnings, safe spaces, and hate crime hoaxes.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.”
“Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.”
“Sensitive, shy-of course I was. The fun of acting is to become someone else.”
“sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.”
“Sensitivity and resolve are opposites. You need good negotiation skills to retain both.”
“Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up.”
“Sensitivity is a too-way street. When you are sensitive you can feel and appreciate, but you can also be injured more easily.”
“Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.”