S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She was obsessed, isolated, locked within herself, in feverish pursuit. She knew that something disastrous was happening to her, that possibly she was going mad, and she knew also that if she ceased for one moment to think about Steven, to carry him with her in her head, she might lose him. He was dead; he only existed in recollection; when recollection ceased even that tenuous existence would be gone. A name, no more. Like the host of names on the white tombstones of Bunhill Fields burial ground; the silent army beneath the soil.”
Source: Perfect Happiness
“She was obviously useful at the UN because she had a public persona before she ever got there. She was well known. She was a spokeswoman for many important things. When she got there, what she said was paid attention to, undoubtedly much more than would have been if just Joe Blow had been made our representative to the United Nations. In that sense, I think it was useful to have her there.”
“She was of another world; different. But by then, secretly, so was I.”
Source: When God Was a Rabbit
“She was of course underpaid and overworked, but this condition was common among graduate students and no one cared much about it.”
Source: Katabasis
“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”
Source: Far From the Madding Crowd
“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.”
Source: Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre
“She was often excited. She liked to be excited.”
Source: Ramona's world
“She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares.”
Source: Inseparable
“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.”
“She was on a high cliff edge somewhere between laughing and crying and screaming.”
Source: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
“She was on a sabbatical in order to write a book about Henry David Thoreau and his relevance for the modern-day environmentalist movement.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.”
Source: The Casual Vacancy
“She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then gradually move over until she was plastered against him. Then he could go to sleep, too.”
Source: Hunting Ground
“She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.”
“She was one of the greatest losses, bell hooks...
a brilliant thinker, and writer,
and teacher,
reflective and brave and inspiring,
revolutionary ideas infused with ancestral wisdom,
always coming from a place of love,
which kept her in a world of possibility.”
“She was one of the people who say, "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like".
- Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson”
Source: Zuleika Dobson
“She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty - and refuge. "It's so peaceful out there and the air smells so good. I mean, it's polluted, but not as much as the city air. For me, it's completely different there," she said. "It's like you're free when you go out there. It's your own time. Sometimes I go there when I'm mad - and then, just with the peacefulness, I'm better. I can come back home happy, and my mom doesn't even know why."
The she described her special part of the woods.
"I had a place. There was a big waterfall and a creek on one side of it. I'd dug a big hole there, and sometimes I'd take a tent back there, or a blanket, and just lie down in the hole, and look up at the trees and sky. Sometimes I'd fall asleep back there. I just felt free; it was like my place, and I could do what I wanted, with nobody to stop me. I used to go down there almost every day."
The young poet's face flushed. Her voice thickened.
"And then they just cut the woods down. It was like they cut down part of me.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“She was one of those girls who should have had a different life.”
Source: Sweet Days of Discipline
“She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a mahogany wardrobe if the fancy is upon her to see it in a different place.”
Source: Tennyson's Gift: Stories from the Lynne Truss Omnibus, Book 2
“She was one of those most beautiful poetries that I had written with all the love in my heart but never allowed the world to know about it.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.”
“She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.”
“She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.”
“She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.”
“She was one of those persons who have allowed their lives to be gnawed away because they have fallen in love with an idea several centuries before its appointed appearance in the history of civilization.”
Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.”
Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel
“She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful.”
Source: Le bonheur dans le crime
“She was one of those women who are usually referred to in the past tense, of whom one says: 'She had a certain freshness and bloom about her,' and whose freshness and bloom passed unnoticed even when she still had them.”
Source: Clochemerle
“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful.”
“She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.”
Source: Emma
“She was only a prostitute, but she had the nicest face I ever came across.”
“She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.”
“She was only another survivor
Caught between a rock,
A hard place and
A broken game…”
Source: Firebird
“She was only extemporizing, but a stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“she was
only fascinated
under neptune
increasingly
outside my reach at
night.”
Source: Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration
“She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.”
Source: Summer and Bird
“She was only one girl; she didn’t want the fate of nations resting on her decisions.”
Source: Wicked Saints
“She was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility: Top 100 Classic Novels
“She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made.”
Source: In an Absent Dream
“She was our mother and belonged to us. She was never mentioned to anyone because we simply didn't have enough of her to share.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“She was outside his family unit and why did he need her?”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“She was overwhelmed with love for him. Love in the sense that she trusted him, and saw all the good in his heart, and cared about him and wanted only good things to ever happen to him. Love in the sense that she would always be on his side, even if he was wrong, in the sense that he was one of the people on this Earth she believed in. And in that moment, the swelling in her heart was unbearable. Absolutely unbearable.”
Source: Atmosphere
“She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.”
“She was painfully hyper-sensitive at times, and she suffered accordingly.”
Source: The Well Of Loneliness
“She was part of a group that helped tilt the world just a tiny bit the right way. Yes, she, one tiny person, was part of it. Hardly noticeable, true, but “hardly” was more than nothing. “Hardly” made all the difference in the world in how she saw herself.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.”
“She was partial to the tie. Not too long ago he did unspeakable things to her with that tie.”
Source: Cowboy Justice