S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.”
“Shoulder-in is the aspirin of horseback riding - it cures everything.”
“Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.”
“Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped into his eyes. He grappled for the nearest bedpost and slumped forward on extended arms. His shoulders jerked and head sagged a little while his heart broke. Old Man cried the mute cry of men of his generation.”
Source: The Blue Cheer
“Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.”
“Shoulders are from God and burdens too.”
Source: Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer
“Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater!”
“shouldn't a god have blood to lose”
Source: Soft Science
“Shouldn’t a position as important as guarding a gate be for someone older?
Shouldn’t a job as important as delivering the Dominar’s messages be for someone older?
Ouch.”
Source: First Message
“Shouldn't goodness be its own reward? He [Perry Hildebrandt] wondered if an action, to qualify as authentically good, needed not only to be untainted by self-interest but also to bring no pleasure of any kind.”
Source: Crossroads
“Shouldn't have looked, boy...”
Source: The Crow
“Shouldn't it be made a crime to vie for a position you can't deliver? We have a confused and compromised executive and an assembly of pigs providing checks and balances in Kenya.”
“Shouldn’t plans be constantly under review?”
Source: U-Day
“Shouldn't someone give a pep talk," Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby.
"Go ahead," Newt replied.
Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly, "Don't die."
Thomas would have laughed if he could, but he was too scared for it to come out.
"Great. We're all bloody inspired," Newt answered then pointed over his shoulder toward the Maze, "You all know the plan. After two years of being treated like mice, tonight we're making a stand. Tonight we're taking the fight back to the Creators, no matter what we have to go through to get there. Tonight the Grievers better be scared.”
Source: The Maze Runner
“Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?' Minho asked...
"Go ahead," Newt replied.
Minho nodded and faced the crowd. 'Be careful,' he said dryly. 'Don't die.'
Thomas would have laughed if he could, but he was too scared for it to come out.
'Great. We're all bloody inspired,' Newt answered.”
Source: The Maze Runner
“shouldn't the punishment for failure be the awful knowledge of that failure?”
Source: Scythe
“Shouldn’t there be more to a marriage? A clarity of purpose? A unity of vision? Team spirit? Common goals? A mutual love of things and each other?”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?”
Source: Angel of the West Window
“Shouldn’t we have a safeword?”
Maybe this isn’t the right thing to say because, at last, he replies, “I’m kneeling at your feet while you wank. If I don’t like it, I can stand up and walk away.”
Source: For Real
“Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?”
“Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?”
Source: Part Asian, 100% Hapa
“Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?”
“Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?”
“Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?”
“Shouldn't every day be Earth Day? I mean, what are our options?”
“Shouldn't EVERY week be Infection Control Week?”
“Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?”
“Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.”
“Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?”
“Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?”
“Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?”
Source: Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it
“Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby. "Go ahead," Newt replied. Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.”
Source: The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)
“Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.”
“Shouldn't that be flipped right-side up?" I asked. "No," she said, eyes on the cards. After several moments of heavy silence, said, "You will destroy that which is undead." I waited about thirty seconds for her to continue, but she didn't. "Wait, that's it?" She nodded. "That's what the cards say to me.”
“Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.”
“Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!”
“Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?”
“Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?”
“Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?”
“Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't we reward people who don't spawn?”
“Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?”
Source: Seeing the Unseen, Expanded Edition: A 90-Day Devotional to Set Your Mind on Eternity
“Shouldn't you be looking at other cars? You know, car shopping usually involves ... shopping." "I don't shop very well", Grace said. "I just see what I need and get it.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?”
“Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it" George Cooper”
“Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.”
“Shouldn’t you be working instead of fraternizing with customers?” I choked. He smiled. “What are you doing Sunday night?” I snorted. By accident. “Are you asking me out?” “You’re getting cocky. I like that, Angel.” “I don’t care what you like. I’m not going out with you. Not on a date. Not alone.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Shoulds' come only from leftover thinking. If we are truly in this moment (the only one there really is), we don’t should on ourselves. It’s a great freedom.
Next time you feel a should coming at you, ask yourself if it really belongs to you!”
Source: BIG: the practice of joy
“Shout at me, I want to tell him. Fight back, because I deserve it. I deserve to be fed all the ways I've made him feel unwanted, slapped, with my own selfishness, But he's Percy, so he doesn't say another cruel word. Even at his worst, he's so much better than me.”
Source: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue