S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.”
“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That's all it means.”
“Simply because you take drugs does not mean you are an expert on them. In fact, there seems to be an inverse relationship between drug consumption and drug knowledge: more of the former results in less of the latter. If that seems obvious, you have probably gone easy on the former, though this relationship only applies to curious people who are seriously interested in drugs.”
“Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.”
“Simply become aware of your thoughts and actions. Become attentive to yourself .Meditation is not something that is only done in a particular posture or situation. It is an attitude towards life.”
“Simply being active is not life.”
Source: The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life
“Simply being born female in our society is to grow up being told your worth as a person is tied to how slim and attractive you are. Even for those of us lucky enough to have evolved parents, the message is still driven home by the world at large.”
Source: Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
“Simply being myself makes me feel vulnerable.”
“Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.”
“Simply believing a technique is above failure guarantees its failure.”
Source: Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
“Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.”
Source: Mother Angelica's Answers, Not Promises: Straightforward Solutions to Life's Puzzling Problems
“Simply blessed.”
“Simply bringing awareness to the process of breathing initiates the release of peptide molecules from the hindbrain to regulate breathing while unifying all systems.”
“Simply by being yellow, they held a special power, giving us courage and comfort.”
Source: Sisters in Yellow
“Simply by changing our thoughts, we can sow the seeds of happiness in the garden of our minds.”
“Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.”
Source: The Golfer's Guide to the Meaning of Life: Lessons I've Learned from My Life on the Links
“Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.”
“Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.”
Source: Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe
“Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.”
“Simply by striving to efficiently utilize all capital everywhere, we will by default solve a multitude of problems in society.”
“Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people ask, "Does Adi want revenge?" - they mean violent revenge. But in Nozick's formulation, it is revenge. That is the essence of revenge.”
“Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.”
“Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].”
“Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.”
“Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.”
“Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings.”
“Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.”
Source: Ethics
“Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.”
Source: The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
“Simply give to yourselves that which you need – which is love and appreciation without judgment.”
“Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority - can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.”
Source: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
“Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up of as many ‘shots’ as it takes in order to be our best.”
“Simply go outside and have fun. The most abundant source of happiness is nature.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Simply growing ‘up’ is far too limited. Rather, I want to grow in every direction.”
“Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)”
Source: Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein
“Simply having children does not make mothers.”
“Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.”
“Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.”
“Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.”
“Simply knowing you exist, ain't good enough for me”
“Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.”
“Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.”
“Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.”
“Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.”
“Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.”
Source: Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers
“Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.”
Source: Killosophy
“Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.”
“Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.”