S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?”
“Shall not I
Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,
Only so much to hate my enemy,
As though he might again become my friend,
And so much good to wish to do my friend,
As knowing he may yet become my foe?”
Source: Ajax
“Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?”
“Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?”
“Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast
Is open? or will God incense his ire
For such a petty trespass? and not praise
Rather your dauntless virtue, whom the pain
Of death denounced, whatever thing death be,
Deterred not from achieving what might lead
To happier life, knowledge of good and evil;
Of good, how just? of evil, if what is evil
Be real, why not known, since easier shunned?
God therefore cannot hurt ye, and be just;
Not just, not God: not feared then, nor obeyed:
Your fear itself of death removes the fear.
Why then was this forbid? Why, but to awe;
Why, but to keep ye low and ignorant,
His worshippers? He knows that in the day
Ye eat thereof, your eyes, that seem so clear,
Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then
Opened and cleared, and ye shall be as gods,
Knowing both good and evil, as they know.”
Source: Paradise lost
“Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?
And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?”
Source: The Prophet
“Shall the hag Evil die with the child of Good, Or propagate again her loathèd kind, Thronging the cells of the diseased mind, Hateful with hanging cheeks, a withered brood, Though hourly pastured on the salient blood?”
“Shall the heart never regret what the brain tries to forget.”
“Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount?”
“Shall the squid have praise or blame for being a squid?
Shall the bird have compliments for being born with wings?”
Source: Selected poems
“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”
“Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?”
“Shall they make rhymes upon us that we of Demonland, whom men repute and hold the mightiest lords in all the world, hung sheepishly back from this high needful enterprise lest, our greatest captains being abroad, our enemies might haply take us at home at disadvantage? It shall not be said of the women of Demonland that they upheld such counsels.”
Source: The worm Ouroboros
“Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must--nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance-- Be often kissed and tasted.”
Source: The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bondman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence
“Shall we accept man's testimony yet refuse God's trustworthy words?”
“Shall we accept the testimony of a man, yet reject the Truth of God.”
“Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?”
“Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.”
“Shall we all open our heart to be a forever home for lost pets.”
Source: Bangle Bear: The Tale of a Tailless Cat
“Shall we appreciate any less the beauty of nature because its harmony is unplanned? And shall the potential of mind cease to inspire our awe and fear because several billion neurons reside in our skulls?”
Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
“Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume
“Shall we break off, then, our ancient friendship
With the great gods, who decline to solicit our favour?
Just because the hard steel which we forge never knew them?
And shall we suddenly search for their whereabouts on a map?”
Source: Sonnets to Orpheus
“Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.”
“shall we dance into the perpetual torture of our union
once more?”
Source: The Abattoir of Silence
“Shall we dance,friend of my heart?" We shall, little one.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“Shall we drink to the Bold Deceiver, then?"
"How about we drink to adventure, instead?"
"After my own heart." Jackaby gave me a proud smile.”
Source: The Map
“Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?”
“Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.”
“Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?”
Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“Shall we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod;
With its crystal tide for ever,
Flowing by the throne of God?”
Source: Welcome Tidings: A New Collection of Sacred Songs for the Sunday School
“Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?”
“Shall we go dance the hay, the hay?
Never pipe could ever play
Better shepherd's roundelay.”
Source: Phillida and Coridon: and other pastorals
“Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.”
Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
“Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss?
Never heart could ever miss
Comfort, where true meaning is.”
Source: A Bower of Delights: Being Interwoven Verse and Prose from the Works of Nicholas Breton
“Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?”
Source: The Portable Mark Twain
“Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams
“Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God, we will not!”
Source: Sermons on the Last Days
“Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?”
Source: Works
“Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven, and in open violation of the constitution and law of these United States and of this state? God forbid! I will not bear it. If they take away my rights, I will fight for them manfully and righteously until I am used up. We have done nothing against the rights of others.”
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)
“Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea”
Source: The Silmarillion
“Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”
Source: The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance
“Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!”
Source: The doctrine and covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints. Divided into verses by O. Pratt. Electrotype ed
“Shall we not go on in such great a cause?”
“Shall we not recover ourselves? Shall we not redeem ourselves to one another? Shall we not restore this world?
Could we not be the generation who did what always should have been done? Who took the hard path so that humanity could be returned to the right path? Shall we not reexamine all that we choose to pursue and reconsider what will actually fulfill us?
The past has been defined by what we have done; while the present and future are decided by what we choose to do.
Shall we believe in what should be and go in search of it? Shall we believe in what needs to be and build it together?
We become more by believing that we can be more. Life becomes better when we are willing to act on the belief that it can be better.
To believe is to reach and reach is what we all must do.”
Source: Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations
“Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?”
“Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.”
“Shall we proceed, and ought I do so with my knife drawn?”
“You’d better keep it where it is for the moment,” he said. “Otherwise you might stab me to death accidentally.” .
“If I stab you to death,” she said, “it will not be accidental.”
Source: Mr. Impossible
“Shall we put our dance practice to some purpose?' he asks.
'Dance?' I ask, my voice coming out a little high.
His gaze goes to the circles of leaping and cavorting Folk. I wonder if he is in shock.
I have just come from betraying him. I feel rather shocked about it.
I put my hand in his as if mesmerised. There is only the warmth of his fingers against my chilly skin. His amber fox eyes, pupils wide and dark. His teeth catch his lip, as though he's nervous. I reach up and touch his cheek. Blood and freckles.
He's shaking a little. I guess if I'd done what he did, I'd still be shaking, too.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)