S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.”
“Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.”
“Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.”
“Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”
Source: The Discourses of Epictetus : Classic Edition
“Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.”
“Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love”
“Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.”
Source: Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997
“Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.”
“Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.”
“Show me someone strong, powerful, and almost invincible, and I will show you someone with unimaginable scars.”
“Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.”
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
“Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.”
“Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!”
“Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.”
“Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.”
“Show me success without ego!”
“Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?”
Source: Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist: The Great Debate (Complete Articles & Essays in One Volume): Words that Traced the Path of the Nation - Founding Fathers’ Political and Philosophical Debate, Their Opinions and Arguments about the Constitution
“Show me that horizon, promise me a world better than this on the other side of the sun.”
“Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.”
“Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.”
“Show me that you're real, and not just my own madness”
Source: Timeless
“Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.”
“Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.”
“show me the city
that does not mourn its fallen
whose pillars embrace
white coffins and freeze
time and distort space”
Source: Correspondence
“Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.”
“Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.”
“Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.”
Source: Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome”
“Show me the labyrinth.'
'Gladly. What would you like to see?'
'I don't know', she said. 'Whatever you want to show me. Whatever's most beautiful.'
Of course, what I really wanted to show her was everything, but that was impossible.”
Source: Piranesi
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”
“Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.”
Source: Robert Morley: a reluctant autobiography
“Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.”
Source: The Portable Steinbeck
“Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.”
Source: Sophocles: The Theban Plays
“Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.”
“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.”
“Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.”
Source: History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great
“Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.”
“Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.”
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
“Show me the person that calls another a fool, and i will prove the extent of his mediocrity.”
“Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.”
“Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.”
“Show me the prophet, or any great person who did not possess a rebellious mind and spirit.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.”
“Show me the way, oh! Sun.
Show me around your kingdom, in which each star has to bow and revolve around you.
Lead me in and out of your six portals.”
“Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.”
“Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.”
“Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.”