S Quotes
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“Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.”
“Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.”
“Sentenced to fade under the weight of external pressures—the eternal cycle of life at its most poignant. Whether we embrace it or not, there it stands—the somber truth that everything changes, and everything will one day succumb to decay and demise.”
Source: Peruvian Days
“Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.”
“Sentences are not as such either true or false.”
“Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.”
Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
“Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?”
“Sentences confined to limited definitions
meanings restricted to limited words
knotted in experiences and sensations
musings, smiles and the eyes;
and holding the entire love
of Creation in my heart
how may I offer you one?”
Source: शून्य मुटुको धड्कनभित्र [Shoonya Mutuku Dhadkanbhitra]
“Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.”
“Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.”
“Sentences like the following are found in many mystical and reactionary writings though not as clearly formulated as by Hutten:
''Kulturbolschewismus is nothing new. It is based on a striving which humanity has had since its earliest days: the longing for happiness. It is the eternal nostalgia for paradise on earth . . . The religion of faith is replaced by the religion of pleasure.''
We, on the other hand, ask: Why not happiness on earth? Why should not pleasure be the content of life? If one were to put this question to a general vote, no reactionary ideology could stand up.
The reactionary also recognizes, though in a mystical manner, the connection between mysticism and compulsive marriage and family:
''Because of this responsibility (for the possible consequences of pleasure), society has created the institution of marriage which, as a lifelong union, provides the protective frame for the sexual relationship.''
Right after this, we find the whole register of "cultural values" which, in the framework of reactionary ideology, fit together like the parts of a machine:
''Marriage as a tie, the family as a duty, the fatherland as value of its own, morality as authority, religion as obligation from eternity.''
It would be impossible better to describe the rigidity of human plasma!”
Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism
“Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.”
“Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.”
“Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.”
“Sentences that begin with 'You' are probably not true. For instance, when I write: "You are a pet human named Morlock being disciplined by your master, a Beowulf cluster of FreeBSD 22.0 servers in the year 2052. Last week you tried to escape by digging a hole under the perimeter, which means this week you may be put to sleep for being a renegade human."
That's not true, at least not yet.”
Source: Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ
“sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.”
Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
“Sentencias de los Khajagan
Rudbari: Corazón a corazón es un medio esencial para transmitir los secretos del Camino.”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“Sentensi ni mkusanyiko wa maneno unaoanza na herufi kubwa na kuisha na alama ya kushangaa, kuuliza, au nukta. Sentensi bora ni fupi, angavu, sahihi, yenye mantiki, na kamilifu.”
“Senti muita paz e escutei a beleza que o fogo me contava. Senti arrependimento porque não ouvi antes o seu chamado. Pedi perdão à fogueira porque não tinha vindo nos outros anos. É que eu estava confusa, é que eu precisava estar só, é que as pessoas são difíceis, é que nem sempre quero estar. Eu senti que o fogo me compreendia. Se alguém na vida me compreendia, esse alguém era o fogo.”
Source: Redemoinho em dia quente
“Senti. Nonostante tu sia finita in queste condizioni, io ti piaccio ancora...?
In questo caso... se ti va bene essere la mia seconda moglie... non c'e niente che non possa fare per te.
... anche se avevo deciso di avere soltanto una sposa, per tutta la vita...”
Source: MeruPuri, Vol. 3
“Senti. Nonostante tu sia finita in queste condizioni, io ti piaccio ancora...?
In questo caso... se ti va bene essere la mia seconda moglie... non ce niente che non possa fare per te.
... anche se avevo deciso di avere soltanto una sposa, per tutta la vita...”
Source: MeruPuri, Vol. 3
“Senti sem ti destino sentido sentido destino.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Senti tão intensamente o momento que o consumi por completo de uma vez só. E dele não sobreviveu lembrança alguma para vagar em minha memória.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Sentia poder confiar muito mais na sinceridade daqueles que às vezes exibiam alguma expressão ou diziam alguma palavra descuidada ou apressada do que na daqueles cuja presença de espírito jamais variava ou cuja língua nunca escorregava.”
Source: Persuasion
“Sentia-se pleno
Pois mesmo pequeno
Vivia os dias
Envolto em amor
E por muito pouco
Que dele se visse
Era importante
E tinha valor”
Source: O musgo Tobias
“Sentience creates bridge between people.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“Sentience of a distant space,
I stand at your starry doorstep.
Born of carbon this simple life,
I come bearing a thread of love lace.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake. When we think that the rope is a snake, we are scared, but once we see that we are looking at a rope, our fear dissipates. We have been deluded by our thoughts. Likewise, mentally fabricating self and others, we generate attachment and aversion.”
“Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if you develop a sense of compassion. You'll have that connectedness, that knowing that the same life that's in you is in every other being, so you're not going to mishandle life.”
“Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.”
“Sentiment d'être composée de multiples morceaux de femmes; il y a en moi de la Dalida, Yourcenar, Beauvoir, Colette, etc... même Sand.”
“Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.”
“Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.”
Source: The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry
“Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.”
Source: Burger's Daughter
“Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.”
Source: Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels
“Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.”
“Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.”
“Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.”
“Sentiment makes fools of us all.”
Source: The Speaker
“Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.”
“Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.”
“Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.”
Source: High Fidelity
“Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.”
Source: Diary of a Superfluous Man
“Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.”
Source: On the naive and sentimental in literature
“Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.”
“Sentimental, you say? Anti-social? Oughtn't to prefer trees to men? I say it depends what trees and what men.”
Source: Coming Up for Air