S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.”
“Sighing, Brand did an act he thought never to do. He took a faerie, a goblin, and a sister and hugged them to his heart.”
Source: Auralict
“Sighing dismally, she acknowledged that some things just weren't humanly possible - not even Martha Stewart could fold fitted sheets.”
Source: The Dark Highlander
“Sighing, he settled into his chair, watching the vision of space at his front. It was stoic, calm, and never ending—deadly, if you weren't careful.”
Source: Demon Possession
“Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.”
Source: The Bellmaker: A Tale from Redwall
“Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.”
“Sighing, she gave a brief nod. “I was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And then you didn’t kill me. It was awful.” “You’re welcome,” I said, feeling fresh anger ignite. “I’ll try not to humiliate you by letting you live next time.” (Max II to Max)”
Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports: A Maximum Ride Novel
“Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard—”
Source: Twice as Hot
“Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.”
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“Sighs are the gales that blow us to heaven, I sometimes think; they breathe unconscious weariness of the “here,” and longing for the “there.”
Source: Cometh Up As a Flower
“Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.”
Source: The Physyology of Taste
“Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.”
Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
“Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.”
Source: The Volcano Lover
“Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.”
“Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.”
“Sight is bound by time and space, vision isn't! It's boundaryless; with it, you can transcend time and space to create the world you desire!!!”
Source: Soft Skills That Make or Break Your Success: 12 soft skills to master yourself, become a team player, and lead your company to absolute success
“Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance
“Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.”
“Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.”
“Sight is seeing what's there, vision is seeing what's possible”
“Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.”
“Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.”
Source: Ghana Must Go: A Novel
“Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.”
“Sight is the noblest sense of man.”
“Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.”
“Sight is where the eye hits.”
“Sight up - Might up - Light up!”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Sight up - might up - light up!
Denounce the shore and sail the sea!
Draw electricity from your spinal cord,
One brain can make or break society.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Sight without color would be a good analogy...only being able to see in black and white rather than seeing in full color would be like experiencing an orgasm with a foreskin and without. There are feelings you’ll just never have without the foreskin.”
Source: Sex as Nature Intended It: The Most Important Thing You Need to Know about Making Love, but No One Could Tell You Until Now
“sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Sighted or blind, Deaf or hearing, each of us holds just the tiniest fraction of the world's wisdom. Admitting we don't know everything will aid us on this Trek for Knowledge.”
Source: Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
“Sighted people, you gotta deal with them.”
“Sightless flag scolding environment that surrounds it, dances in the joy of being a flag.”
“Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.”
Source: The Silverado Squatters: Easyread Large Edition
“Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.”
Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
“Sigma Chi was a learning experience for me in personal growth, in finding out more about myself, in shaping my life more effectively, and in directing my energies more efficiently. All of those things were heavily influenced by my Sigma Chi experience. There is no question that that has had a tremendous impact on my career, profesionally and on my life.”
“Sigma Chi, more than anything else, got me involved with the people who knew how to study, and they helped me. I learned from them. The Norman Shield is still quite applicable now.”
“Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness. Consumer culture exhausts us. We suffer. We destroy ourselves. And we just can't stop.”
“Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.”
“Sigmund Freud once asserted, "Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase of the imperative urge of hunger all individual differences will blur, and in their stead will appear the uniform expression of the one unstilled urge." Thank heaven, Sigmund Freud was spared knowing the concentration camps from the inside. His subjects lay on a couch designed in the plush style of Victorian culture, not in the filth of Auschwitz. There, the "individual differences" did not "blur" but, on the contrary, people became more different; people unmasked themselves, both the swine and the saints.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“Sigmund Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.”
“Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.”
“Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.”
Source: I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales
“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either."
(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)”
“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.”
“Sigmund Freud was also frustrated here. In a city that later embraced his ideas with particular zeal, being organically inclined towards neurosis, he himself found only failure. He came to Trieste on the train from Vienna in 1876, commissioned by the Institute of Comparative Anatomy at Vienna University to solve a classically esoteric zoological puzzle: how eels copulated. Specialist as he later became in the human testicle and its influence upon the psyche, Freud diligently set out to discover the elusive reproductive organs whose location had baffled investigators since the time of Aristotle. He did not solve the mystery, but I like to imagine him dissecting his four hundred eels in the institute's zoological station here. Solemn, earnest and bearded I fancy him, rubber-gloved and canvas-aproned, slitting them open one after the other in their slimy multitudes. Night after night I see him peeling off his gloves with a sigh to return to his lonely lodgings, and saying a weary goodnight to the lab assistant left to clear up the mess — "Goodnight, Alfredo", "Goodnight, Herr Doktor. Better luck next time, eh?" But the better luck never came; the young genius returned to Vienna empty-handed, so to speak, but perhaps inspired to think more exactly about the castration complex.”
Source: Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere
“Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.”
Source: The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition
“Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.”
“Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.”
“Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?”