S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.”
“Should we reason our way out of sadness ? But why, when reasoning requires effort ? And the sad man lacks the necessary energy to make any effort at all.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“Should we rejoice when one evil triumphs over another, or should we be saddened that the victorious evil has become even stronger?”
“Should we say something?’ Cal asks. ‘Goodbye, bird?’ I suggest. He nods. ‘Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.”
Source: Before I Die
“Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?”
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
“Should we send massive amounts of government money to the Ukraine war or correctly fund the disability system during Long COVID? I choose to correctly fund the disability system.”
“Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?”
“Should we then be surprised that when Western powers destroy a certain country that there will be an influx of refugees? Do we expect these wars to happen and for their effects to simply stay 'over there'? How can we really expect all this to happen while people here carry on doing business as usual? Do Westerners expect to just relax and enjoy a cold crisp beer on their porches on a warm summer night and see no refugees before their eyes after all these wars waged by their governments?”
“Should we trust the scientists and the so called experts that created the endless parade of pharmaceutical concoctions that we see advertised on TV? ads that are soon discontinued as they're followed up by an avalanche of commercials from legal firms inviting people who are permanently damaged or worse from last week's big pharma witch's Brew to sue for damages...”
“Should we will error? You should not, but you do will that error which you take for the best truth, as men have always done.”
Source: The Red Book: Liber Novus
“Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept of guilt had been repealed by the proletarian revolution and, at the beginning of the thirties, was defined as rightist opportunism! So we can't even discuss these out-of-date concepts, guilt and innocence.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago
“Should women be on any pills besides birth control? We should just give them all sugar pills for everything, they're so suggestible.”
“Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.”
“Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Should you be gone, I think of others not,
my mind in, like a wife, your spot,
when you’re here, I feel you close,
since one we are, elan of, you just give me dose;
when we are together, the world is for us,
each-other to gaze at, true rapture feeling, plus;
when we’re gone, the world will still be here,
love there will still be, yet others with, that’s clear…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.”
“Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.”
“Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.”
“Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“Should you feel bad if you deny them an education because they can’t pay you money?”
“Should you feel sufficiently emboldened, then let’s plan a coffee sometime soon. And see what the universe makes of the occasion.”
Source: A Decade of Desire: Erotic Memoirs from The Office Diaries
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention.”
“Should you, in the next few years, wish to write to me, do not hesitate for a moment. Your letters invariably give me boundless pleasure.
Your friend Yennefer
The letter smelled of lilac and gooseberries.
Geralt cursed.”
Source: Blood of Elves
“Should you listen to a highly trained scuba diver’s advice before plunging into the depths of the ocean? Yes. Should you believe that person when the diver talks about seeing a mermaid making love to a dolphin? No.”
Source: You Are Not So Smart
“Should you operate upon your clients as objects, you risk reducing them to less than human. Following the culture of appropriation and mastery your clients become a kind of extension of yourself, of your ego. In the appropriation and objectification mode, your clients’ well-being and success in treatment reflect well upon you. You “did” something to them, you made them well. You acted upon them and can take the credit for successful therapy or treatment. Conversely, if your clients flounder or regress, that reflects poorly on you. On this side of things the culture of appropriation and mastery says that you are not doing enough. You are not exerting enough influence, technique or therapeutic force. What anxiety this can breed for some clinicians!
DBT offers a framework and tools for a treatment that allows clients to retain their full humanity. Through the practice of mindfulness, you can learn to cultivate a fuller presence to the moments of your life, and even with your clients and your work with them. This presence potentiates an encounter between two irreducible human beings, meeting professionally, of course, and meeting humanly. The dialectical framework, which embraces contradictions and gives you a way of seeing that life is pregnant with creative tensions, allows for your discovery of your limits and possibilities, gives you a way of seeing the dynamic nature of reality that is anything but sitting still; shows you that your identity grows from relationship with others, including those you help, that you are an irreducible human being encountering other irreducible human beings who exert influence upon you, even as you exert your own upon them. Even without clinical contrivance.”
“Should you positively like to live here?"
"I think I should like," said poor Milly after an instant, "to die here.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.”
“Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Should you see the light of your future, within the shadows of your present,
The resilience of life dancing over vast deserts of death,
Witness if you so shall, the majesty of Creation.
The connectedness of All was and always will be.
Entanglement? No. We call it Love.” ~ Sargon of Akkad 2345 B.C.
Excerpt from Andulairah's upcoming book "The Erunisis Medallion”
Source: Eyes Of The Scarlet Rose
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
“Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?”
“Should you wish to pursue the infinity of truth, you must make yourself humble as ashes and vigorous as the wind. And with that attitude flowing through your veins, bring your novel thinking in action and disinfect the world with a bold, radical and positive change – a change of egalitarianism, a change of globalism, a change of rationalism, a change of humanism.”
Source: Saint of The Sapiens
“Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.”
“Should've thought of that before you told my ex-girlfriend I eat live kittens for breakfast." A tiny twinge of guilt. Then the cat wondered what Riley would think of her last successful "shoo-away." "Who knew she'd believe me?" [Mercy responded.] "Oh no? When you 'accidentally' opened the cupboard to expose my 'kitten cage' full of the poor, sad kitties I was going to snack on?" A raised eyebrow. "Wasn't the cage next to my special 'kitten defurring' tools?" "They were obviously fake." Bas just stared at her.”
“Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.”
“Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.”
Source: Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind
“Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.”
“Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.”
“Shoulda know ain’t nothing for free. Ohhh, ain't nothing ever for free.”
“Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow”
“Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.”
“Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.”
Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players
“Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“Shoulder ... shake ... a little lingerie!”
“Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”
“Shoulder to shoulder they sit quietly, gazing into the infinity of soul remembrance – an invisible net of breath and devotion generated by the lofty gesture of hundreds of trees arching their way to the sun. “Eternity gives birth to her most recent legends here, you know,” Grandfather whispers.”
Source: Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery