S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.”
Source: Night
“Shadows of revelation are growing day by day can you hear what the spirit is saying to the church?”
“Shadows of villages that bordered the horizon looked like women whose backs were bent with the burdens of life. My mother had had to bear hers, and it was now my turn.”
Source: The Mountains Sing
“Shadows pinned against the wall of despair,
The doors are open but I still feel caged.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.”
“Shadows stretch across the room. Silence hums. All wait for the first ray of dawn.”
Source: Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing
“Shadows stretched from one side of the street to the other, reaching up the walls like fingers as the street lamps came on. In the north, a bank of dark clouds was building above the ridge of mountains, the tops of Buchanan and Crandell already fading into misty half-light. The last pigmented bands of sunset gilded the sides of buildings in orange light, but the rattle of wind against the panes of glass brought with it a promise of rain.
Autumn was coming, but no one save Hunter Slate seemed to notice the change.”
Source: Edge of Wild
“Shadows thrown by a single candle flame often can be more frightening than total darkness.”
Source: Unsaid
“Shadows walk around in my head. My mind talks to itself, but I am kept out of it.”
Source: We Have Shadows Too
“Shadows were both a man’s best friend and his worst enemy.”
Source: Lilac: A Plain Princess Retelling
“Shadows were largest just before sunset, but lost their power when night inevitably fell. For Shadows don't exist in the dark.”
Source: A Broken Blade
“Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Shadowshine is exactly how I see us,” he rumbled. “One too dark, the other too light, and nothing but destructive storms between us.”
Source: Reclaimed
“Shadrack rose and returned to the cot, where he fell into the first sleep of his new life. A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs.”
Source: Sula
“Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.”
“Shady people do shady things.”
“Shae gave a nod of silent understanding. Niko had put into words something she'd felt for a long time -- a sense that she struggled not only against the Mountain and all the other enemies of the clan, but against something even larger and more inexorable.
Niko lowered his gaze to his hands. "I thought I could escape and find some other meaning in my life. But if the clan crumbles, either quickly or slowly, if it becomes as obsolete and irrelevant as people like Jim Sunto believe, then everything that made me, including my father's murder and my mother's execution, would be meaningless. Every drop of blood spilled, every sacrifice made, every child ever trained to wear jade as a Green Bone warrior of Kekon over centuries of history.... That's what the Pillar carries. That's our power, and ours alone." He looked back toward the school with a small, sad smile. "Ru tried so hard to tell me that I was a selfish fool to run away from it. He was right.”
Source: Jade Legacy
“Shae-Lynn, come on. You know I didn’t mean for it to happen that way. I was just trying to do right by you.”
“Doing right by me would have been respecting my wishes and keeping your promises. Leave me alone, Billy. I don’t want to be friends with someone I can’t depend on.”
Source: Rank
“Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.”
“Shaft was standing next to a newstsand about thirty yards from the Con Ed crew when Kelly came out of the red-brick highrise, the glossy haven of the spade who's made it. It rose like an insult to all the failure around it, a fifteen-story middle finger that said up yours to the old neighborhood.”
Source: Shaft's Big Score
“Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Shaggy,” a small voice called. When Bran looked up, his little brother was standing in the mouth of Father’s tomb. With one final snap at Summer’s face, Shaggydog broke off and bounded to Rickon’s side. “You let my father be,” Rickon warned Luwin. “You let him be.”
“Rickon,” Bran said softly. “Father’s not here.”
“Yes he is. I saw him.” Tears glistened on Rickon’s face. “I saw him last night.”
“In your dream . . . ?”
Rickon nodded. “You leave him. You leave him be. He’s coming home now, like he promised. He’s coming home.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.”
“Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal because he was a king, I wrote a beautiful book for my wife, though I was never an Author…”
Source: I Lost My Soul
“Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal for his wife,
I wrote a book..”
Source: I Lost My Soul
“Shah Jahan who proved
an emperor to be shorter than a lover,
who turned a grave into a temple
who gave his beloved a place of God
and converted love into a prayer.”
“Shah Rukh is as passionate and as enthusiastic as ever.”
“Shah Rukh is not my girlfriend that I should remember him. When I don't remember my past girlfriends, what will I remember Shah Rukh for?”
“Shahab Ahmed argued for an “exploratory” rather than a “restrictive” view of Islamic principles, where ancient teachings are taken like road signs indicating directions toward greater justice, rather than stop signs that impose eternal limits on social development.”
Source: Mother Persia: Women in Iran's History
“Shaheed-e-Azmat" can be translated to English as "The Great Martyr", "The Supreme Martyr" or “Martyr of Determination”. The term is an honorific title given to individuals who have made significant sacrifices for a cause, such as political freedom or religious beliefs. For example, Bhagat Singh is known as "Shaheed-e-Azam" (a similar term), and Shaikh Abdul Aziz was revered as "Shaheed-e-Azeemat" for his dedication to the Kashmiri cause.”
“Shahid has grown increasingly committed to the art of indignation, waking up in the morning with an expression of incipient disgust already in stock for all the affronts he will surely encounter during the course of the day.”
Source: Meatless Days
“Shahid Kapoor is my childhood crush”
“Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth--or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit.”
Source: Capital
“Shahidi mwaminifu na wa kweli anayajua mambo yetu yote tangu kuumbwa hadi mwisho wa dunia yetu. Kwa hiyo, ni kweli unabii lazima utimie. Mungu anataka tuwe na amani ndani ya mioyo yetu lakini anajua si jambo rahisi kwa sababu ya hila za Shetani. Shetani asingekuwepo amani ingekuwepo; watakatifu wasingekuwepo, dunia isingekuwepo. Lakini mlango wa rehema bado haujafungwa. Bado tuna uhuru wa kuchagua mema dhidi ya mabaya.”
“Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan’s constitution. He clearly can’t read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.”
“Shaikh Ahmad of Sirhind (1563-1624) discussed it within the canon of theological tradition and held that ana al-haqq was a situational statement and that it represented a quality of authentic experience. The Shaikh suggested that ana—the personal "I," and al-haqq, the Truth, had no reference to a unitive condition, in fact; al-haqq completely surrounded the consciousness of the contemplative ego. Placed in this state the ana could only know the surrounding al-haqq—and simultaneously lose its own identity. It was in fact the loss of personal identity which gave significance to Hallaj's statement. The Shaikh held that ana al-haqq did not have any reference to unification either with the Divine Essence or its Attribute. Thus, ana al-haqq, as "I am the Truth," was categorically discarded by the Shaikh who interpretted the phrases as affirmation by negation. According to him, ana al-haqq did not carry the affirmatory meaning of "I am the Truth," but simply made the statement that, "I am not, He only is". Without negation of the self, the affirmation of Divine Truth remains unresolved. Hallaj had in fact affirmed the faith through negation of the contemplative ego.”
Source: Ana Al-Haqq Reconsidered
“Shailene Woodley is reason enough to see 'The Fault in Our Stars.'”
“Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.”
Source: The Geek Feminist Revolution
“Shake and shake
the catsup bottle
none will come
and then a lot'll.”
“Shake hands but stop dragging them into your life.”
“Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.”
“Shake hands with today; it is here already. Bid farewell to yesterday; it’s gone already. Never let yesterday’s pain rob you of today’s gains. Drive yourself positively!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Shake hands with yourself. Forgive yourself and you can learn to love yourself and others in the manner that brings you the greatest fulfillment of all. With love, all things are truly possible. - Charmainism”
Source: Shake Hands with Yourself: A Peacemaker's Guide to Happiness & Inner Peace
“Shake it off and move on.”
“Shake It Up definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.”
“Shake It Up is a buddy comedy based around dance. It's about two best friends Rocky and CeCe who live out their dream as background dancers on a show called Shake It Up Chicago. They have to navigate life as young teens going to school and dancing on the show.”
“Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision.”
“Shake off the cloud of mere routine to find tranquil rustic joys and peace that serve to fuel audacious power and passion.”
“Shake off the dust of unwelcoming places.”