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“Significantly, it was Disraeli who said, "What is a crime among the multitude is only a vice among the few"—perhaps the most profound insight into the very principle by which the slow and insidious decline of nineteenth-century society into the depth of mob and underworld morality took place. Since he knew this rule, he knew also that Jews would have no better chances anywhere than in circles which pretended to be exclusive and to discriminate against them; for inasmuch as these circles of the few, together with the multitude, thought of Jewishness as a crime, this "crime" could be transformed at any moment into an attractive "vice." Disraeli's display of eroticism, strangeness, mysteriousness, magic, and power drawn from secret sources, was aimed correctly at this disposition in society.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.”
“Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel can speak of mountains, trees, sun, and moon praising God. Unlike an office complex or gymnasium, which have no value if people do not inhabit them, creation can glorify and bring God delight apart from human presence.”
“Signing off now, but keeping the line open, as always, I'll say Amen.”
Source: Shantaram
“Signing with Hollywood Records was a dream come true. I am so blessed to get to do the things that I love to do every day of my life. My fans can expect to be blown away with the music I'm writing.”
“Signor Renzo's lodge stood on a grassy knoll near the crest of the hill. It was a modest place, just a low stone hut, before which stretched a woven ceiling of vines. My dinner was cooked on an open fire by the table. This was no banquet, but what the cook called a pique-nique, a meal for hunters to take outdoors. After Renzo had chosen two fat ducklings from his larder, he spitted them over the fire. Then he made a dish of buttery rice crowned with speckled discs of truffle that tasted powerfully of God's own earth.
'Come sit with me,' I begged, for I did not like him to wait on me. So together we sat beneath the vines as I savored each morsel and guessed at the subtle flavorings. 'Wild garlic?' I asked, and he lifted his brows in surprise as he ate. 'And a herb,' I added, 'sage?'
'For a woman, you have excellent taste.'
For a woman, indeed! I made a play of stabbing him with my knife. It was most pleasant to eat our pique-nique and drink the red wine, which they make so strong in that region that they call it black or nero. I asked him to speak of himself, and between a trial of little dishes of wild leaves, chestnut fritters, and raisin cake, Signor Renzo told me he was born in the city and had worked at a pastry's cook shop as a boy, where he soon discovered that good foods mixed with ingenious hands made people happy and free with their purses.”
Source: An Appetite for Violets
“Signore," aveva risposto Saint-Savin, "la prima qualità di un onest'uomo è il disprezzo della religione, che ci vuole timorosi della cosa più naturale del mondo, che è la morte, odiatori dell'unica cosa bella che il destino ci ha dato, che è la vita, e aspiranti a un cielo dove di eterna beatitudine vivono solo i pianeti, che non godono né di premi né di condanne, ma del loro moto eterno, nelle braccia del vuoto. Siate orte come i saggi dell'antica Grecia e guardate alla morte con occhio fermo e senza paura. Gesù ha sudato troppo aspettandola. Che cosa aveva da temere d'altra parte, poiché sarebbe resuscitato?”
Source: The Island of the Day Before
“Signore, come muore un uomo quando viene privato della consolazione della letteratura?”
“In uno o due modi,” disse lui, “per pietrificazione del cuore o per atrofia del sistema nervoso.”
“Entrambi poco piacevoli, immagino” azzardai.
“Per niente piacevoli” disse Castle il vecchio. “Per l'amor di Dio, vi prego, continuate a scrivere, tutti e due!”
“Signori has all the tricks up his book.”
“Signposts are our intuition asking inner wisdom to be set free.”
Source: Firedancer: Your Spiral Journey to a Life of Passion and Purpose
“Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.”
“signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.”
“Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.”
“Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.”
“Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.”
Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics
“Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.”
Source: Invisible Cities
“Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.”
“Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.”
“Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.”
“Signs of Hokkaido's muscular dairy industry tattoo the terrain everywhere: packs of Holsteins chew cud unblinkingly in the sunlight, ice cream shops proffer hyperseason flavors to hungry leaf gazers, and giant silos offer advice to the calcium deficient: "Drink Hokkaido Milk!" Even better than drinking the island's milk is drinking its yogurt, which you can do at Milk Kobo, a converted red barn with cows and tractors and generous views of Mount Yotei, which locals call Ezo Fuji. Kobo sells all manner of dairy products, but you're here for the drinkable yogurt, which has a light current of sweetness and a deep lactic tang, a product so good that the second it hits my lips, I give up water for the week.”
Source: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
“Signs of revenge, manipulation, superiority, desires, entitlement, criticism, depression etc. are signs of false ego. Wrong education, wrong conditioning, motivations of amassing wealth, trying to be socially relevant and escaping FOMO are the biggest contributors to building up false ego.”
Source: The Science of Spiritual Enlightenment: A Book for Eternity
“Signs of wisdom; order, peace, and love.
Signs of ignorance; self, belief, and trust.”
“Signs. Senses. Synchronicities. Connect the dots. Follow the breadcrumbs to your destiny.”
“Signs, they say, are everywhere if you care enough to look for them. Yet sometimes you need a person to point them out to you.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Signs usually come in threes. The same book is recommended to you several times within the space of a day, for example. You overhear someone mention the same company three times in a week. Or, you get the same feeling again and again. Notice your feelings. Again, true divine guidance feels safe, even if it does feel intimidating. False guidance feels edgy, shaky - like you're sneaking under the wire. It doesn't feel right.”
“Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All the while, Signý, caged in his dungeons, hearing all the painful details of his life with someone else, drowning in her own despair, her love for him turning to hatred. A more tragic life, she could not imagine.”
“sigo apaixonada
pela mulher
que batalhei pra ser”
Source: Tudo nela brilha e queima
“Sigo com um olhar e concordo com um menear, apoio com um dispor e celebro com um sorriso.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Sigo creyendo que los miedos desaparecen cuando los ignoramos.”
Source: Amapolas en octubre
“Sigo fragmentos cinéticos de mim, estilhaços que desenvolveram ideais e sentimentos próprios.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Sigo sin poder adivinar el futuro, pero ahora puedo ver la vida desde otro lugar y sé que solo por eso todo este tiempo ha valido la pena.”
Source: Aproximadamente Un Segundo Más
“Sigo sin saber dónde situarme, qué lugar me corresponde en el mundo.”
Source: De pronto oigo la voz del agua
“Sigourney Weaver is a wonderful person. I was so lucky to have the opportunity to meet and work with such an amazing actress. I believe that our chemistry was immediate from the moment we met, and continued to grow. She helped to make me feel comfortable during all the scenes that were filmed.”
“Sigtryggr had been given an honorable place at the table, as had my daughter.
“It was her fault,” Sigtryggr said, nodding toward Stiorra.
I translated for Æthelflaed. “Why her fault?” she asked.
“He saw her and was distracted,” I explained.”
Source: The Empty Throne
“Sigtryggr held out a hand to pull me from the ditch. His one eye was bright with the same joy I had seen on Ceaster’s ramparts. ‘I would not want you as an enemy, Lord Uhtred,’ he said.
‘Then don’t come back, Jarl Sigtryggr,’ I said, clasping his forearm as he clasped mine.
‘I will be back,’ he said, ‘because you will want me to come back.’
‘I will?’
He turned his head to gaze at his ships. One ship was close to the shore, held there by a mooring line tied to a stake. The prow of the ship had a great dragon painted white and in the dragon’s claw was a red axe. The ship waited for Sigtryggr, but close to it, standing where the grass turned to the river bank’s mud, was Stiorra. Her maid, Hella, was already aboard the dragon-ship.
Æthelflaed had been watching Eardwulf’s death, but now saw Stiorra by the grounded ship. She frowned, not sure she understood what she saw. ‘Lord Uhtred?’
‘My lady?’
‘Your daughter,’ she began, but did not know what to say.
‘I will deal with my daughter,’ I said grimly. ‘Finan?’
My son and Finan were both staring at me, wondering what I would do. ‘Finan?’ I called.
‘Lord?’
‘Kill that scum,’ I jerked my head towards Eardwulf’s followers, then I took Sigtryggr by the elbow and walked him towards his ship. ‘Lord Uhtred!’ Æthelflaed called again, sharper this time.
I waved a dismissive hand, and otherwise ignored her. ‘I thought she disliked you,’ I said to Sigtryggr.
‘We meant you to think that.’
‘You don’t know her,’ I said.
‘You knew her mother when you met her?’
‘This is madness,’ I said.
‘And you are famous for your good sense, lord.’
Stiorra waited for us. She was tense. She stared at me defiantly and said nothing.
I felt a lump in my throat and a sting in my eyes. I told myself it was the small smoke drifting from the Norsemen’s abandoned campfires. ‘You’re a fool,’ I told her harshly.
‘I saw,’ she said simply, ‘and I was stricken.’
‘And so was he?’ I asked, and she just nodded. ‘And the last two nights,’ I asked, ‘after the feasting was over?’ I did not finish the question, but she answered it anyway by nodding again.
‘You are your mother’s daughter,’ I said, and I embraced her, holding her close. ‘But it is my choice whom you marry,’ I went on. I felt her stiffen in my arms, ‘And Lord Æthelhelm wants to marry you.’
I thought she was sobbing, but when I pulled back from the embrace I saw she was laughing. ‘Lord Æthelhelm?’ she asked.
‘You’ll be the richest widow in all Britain,’ I promised her.
She still held me, looking up into my face. She smiled, that same smile that had been her mother’s. ‘Father,’ she said, ‘I swear on my life that I will accept the man you choose to be my husband.’
She knew me. She had seen my tears and knew they were not caused by smoke. I leaned forward and kissed her forehead. ‘You will be a peace cow,’ I said, ‘between me and the Norse. And you’re a fool. So am I. And your dowry,’ I spoke louder as I stepped back, ‘is Eardwulf’s money.’ I saw I had smeared her pale linen dress with Eardwulf’s blood. I looked at Sigtryggr. ‘I give her to you,’ I said, ‘so don’t disappoint me.”
Source: The Empty Throne
“Sigue caminando, a pesar del impedimento más pesado, - sigue caminando , a pesar de la agonía más tortuosa -sigue caminando, a pesar de la burla más sucia - solo sigue caminando, porque, tu caminar cuenta - porque, tu caminar no es solo tu caminar, sino el caminar de toda nuestra humanidad.”
“Sigue dedicándose a la enseñanza [...] porque así aprende la virtud de la humildad, porque así comprende con toda claridad cuál es su lugar en el mundo. No se le escapa la ironía, a saber, que el que va a enseñar aprende la lección más profunda, mientras que quienes van a aprender no aprenden nada.”
Source: Disgrace
“Sigue pintando mucho rato, se aleja de la tavola y vuelve a acercarse. Observa la transición del cuenco a la miel y a los pliegues y arrugas del paño. Sigue su curso entre los objetos, entre la forma en que influyen unos en otros, entre los espacios y las conversaciones que sostienen entre ellos; se reduce al tamaño de un escarabajo para poder pasar por los huecos que quedan entre los melocotones y por los hexágonos contiguos del panal. Palpa las formas correspondientes en el cuadro usando los pinceles como si fueran patas o antenas, buscando el camino en el terreno desconocido de cada objeto, abriéndose paso en lo que hay por debajo de lo que se ve”
“siguió evocando hasta el amanecer las excelencias del marido, sin reprocharle otra deslealtad que la de haberse muerto sin ella, y redimida por la certidumbre de que nunca había sido tan suyo como lo era entonces, dentro de un cajón clavado con doce clavos de tres pulgadas, y a dos metros debajo de la tierra.
—Soy feliz —dijo— porque sólo ahora sé con seguridad dónde está cuando no está en la casa.”
Source: El amor en los tiempos del cólera
“Sigur Ros make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative.”
“Sigur, unul dintre adevărurile de bază ale vieții este că, in general, lumea te acceptă după cum te evaluezi singur.”
Source: Snobs
“Siguro ganun talaga ang buhay. May mga bagay na kahit anong buhos mo ng effort o kahit gaano pa ang tindi ng kagustuhan mong makuha ay hindi mapapasaiyo kung hindi nakatakda sa isang invisible na script na kung tawagin ay tadhana.”
Source: Daily Dairy Diarrhea Diary
“Siguro kaya naimbento ang salita’t konseptong closure ay para sa mga tinatamad malaman ang magiging wakas. Yung mga atat na atat malaman ang ending. Yung mga naburyong na sa pagkainip sa dapat kahinatnan. Kesa nga naman maghintay sa pagkahaba-haba’t pagkatagal-tagal ng ending, mabuti pang putulin nalang.”
“Sigyn’s way takes such courage. Her way is a quiet way of personal mindfulness and dedication. It is a simple way. It is a terrifying way. Walking in Her footsteps means that there is no place to hide: no fine words, no angry posturing, no pride, no ego, no boasting–Her deeds are boast enough. There is nothing but what must be done and a heart committed to the doing. Sigyn’s way is simple: constancy of the heart, in the face of hatred, opposition, jealousy, slander, exhaustion, grief, anguish, rage, despair and a thousand other obstacles that life has a way of creating. She is constancy of purpose. […] She is vast, and Her strength is vast even as it is so completely unassuming. It simply is and will not be moved. She is the ‘Lady of Unyielding Gentleness’ for much the same reason. Her gentleness of spirit is Her shield and Her strength, and in it She is fierce. Her devotion is Her armor.”
Source: Sigyn: Lady of the Staying Power
“Sihir mi arıyorsun? Komiksin! Sadece aynaya bak, sihir sensin! Bu gizemli evrenin sihri olarak doğdun sen!”
“Sihri' tutarlı bir biçimde kullanmadım; Elf kraliçesi Galadriel hikayede, bu sözcüğü, Düşman'ın da Elflerin de hem araçları hem de harekatı hakkında kullanan kafası karışık Hobbit'lere serzenişte bulunmakta haklı. bu benim için geçerli değil, çünkü ikincisinin karşılığı olan bir sözcük yok. Fakat Elfler burada farkı ortaya koyuyorlar. Onların 'sihri' insanın sınırlılıklarından kurtulduğu Sanat: çok daha az çabayla, daha hızlı, daha karmaşık. Ve bu edimlerinin nesnesi Güç değil Sanat, Yaratının tahakküm altına alınması değil, alt-yaratıdır.”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“Sii altruista e ci sarà serenità.”
“Siihen aikaan he olivat vielä siinä iässä,
että vihelletään tyttöjen perään
auton ikkunasta
ja sitä jatketaan,
kunnes vihellys alkaa olla itkua,
kun ei aikanaan huomattu nousta autosta.”
Source: Puu katsoo kauas yli metsän : runoja
“Siihen, mikä erottaa ihmisen muista eläimistä, on vaikea vastata. Sellaista hyvin yleistä ominaisuutta, joka luonnehtisi nimenomaan ihmisen elämää, mutta ei minkään muun eläimen elämää, ei ole helppo löytää. Näin on huolimatta siitä, että voimme luetella joukon yksinomaan ihmiskulttuurin ilmentymiä kuten tieteen, taiteen tai politiikan harjoittaminen. Näiden voidaan olettaa olevan seurausta jostakin yleisemmästä, inhimillisestä periaatteesta, joka säätelee yksinomaan ihmislajin toimintaa. Tyydymme nimittämään tätä ihmisen ominaispiirrettä yksinkertaisesti "inhimillisyydeksi". Inhimillisyys erottaa ihmiset eläimistä ja se on kompleksi ja laaja käsite samoin kuin "elämän" ja "tietoisuuden" käsitteet ovat. Inhimillisyyteen liittyy ihmisen lajityypillinen kieli. Ihmisen on uskottu eroavan muista eläimistä kielen sekä rationaalisuuden ja moraalisen kyvyn vuoksi. Kieli, joka ilmentää rationaalisuutta ja moraalisuutta, on ihmisen ainutlaatuinen ominaisuus, jota muilla eläimillä ei näyttäisi olevan.”
Source: Eläinten tietoisuus ja oikeudet: Kettutyttöfilosofiaa ja susietiikkaa
“Siinä koko lapsuus. Sellainen se oli. Pääsin pois, mutta missään ei ovea, josta sujahtaisi uudestaan lapsuuteen, parempaan lapsuuteen, parempaan versioon. Sitä ei ole missään. Isä ei koskaan pyydä anteeksi. Ei kertaakaan. Ja sitten se kuolee. Se on nyt kuollut, on turha odotella enää mitään. Se, että on turha odotella enää mitään, on sekä ihan isosti helpottava asia että aivan surullinen juttu.”
Source: Pienen budjetin sotaelokuva