S Quotes
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“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”
Source: Slapstick or Lonesome No More
“Since Alice spoke about energy, I think that is the next thing we must talk about. As she said, everything is energy. Not the type of energy that makes you get up in the morning, but what you and everything around you is made of. You look solid but you’re really made up of very tiny particles that are always vibrating. Even what you call air is made up of those same particles!”
Source: Joey and His Friend Water
“Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their own ends, there must be clear and wise critique, and holding to account.”
“Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.”
“Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.”
“Since all men are created equal, I have to thank God I was born a woman.”
“Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.”
“Since all of life is endowed with a part of The Lord to take a life is to take part of The Lord. To save a life is to save a part of The Lord.” From Quotes about God ISBN 978-1-936462-20-9”
Source: The Best Quotes about God
“Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?”
“Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.”
“Since all people, regardless of categories, are Shiva Himself appearing in that form, all gods, supergods, masters of higher worlds (bhuvanas), purer beings in the plane of vidya, and the superior authorities ruling there are able to exercise their grace on beings who are spiritually below them. In fact, any persons who are spiritually advanced can bestow their grace on a person who is below them in spiritual progress. The shaktipata exercised by supergods like Brahma or Vishnu, who wield their authority inside the plane of maya, cannot lead to moksha but only to a superior type of bhoga. The form of shaktipata exercised by Isvara or Sadasiva, or by various incarnations of them like Anantanatha, Gahanesa, Srikanthanatha, or Umapatinatha can lead to the attainment of moksha. However, this shaktipata results in a gradual liberation known as kramamukti. Only an intense (tirva) type of shaktipata, exercised by God Himself, can result in quick liberation.
— B. N. Pandit, Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism (3rd ed., 2008), p. 90.”
Source: Specific Principles of Kashmir Saivism [Hardcover] [Apr 01, 1998] Paṇḍita, BalajinnaÌ"tha
“Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.”
“Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?”
“Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?”
“Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings,
I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil
If I thank'd my God for worldly things.”
Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake
“Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.”
Source: The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 5.
“Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth, time, and abilities.”
“Since almost all of the men were on active duty with the military, very few were available to serve with the Home Guard or as Air Raid Wardens. There were absolutely none assigned to our section, so we had to check our own homes for any unexploded incendiary bombs. Conditions were frightful and complaining didn’t help. Being on the verge of having a nervous breakdown, one of the women in our building cried incessantly. All of us tried to comfort and help her, but we had our own problems and could do precious little to calm her.
Suddenly huge shattering explosions changed everything! Three bombs fell very close by. They exploded on our side of the street, causing our entire house to be shaken to its very foundation. The explosions were so severe that we thought the window casings would burst, causing the roof to cave in! When the “All Clear” sounded, we dug our way out and discovered that the bombs had hit the three houses right next to ours.”
“Since almost everything we see (or do not see) is a matter of “convention,” we can say that all we see is the result of our perception. The picture of “reality” and the world depends on our perception. Although we all see the same things (with slight differences measured in nuances), the same colors, and the same shapes, this does not change the fact that it all results from our perception. On the other hand, we are not the creators of our perceptions but the beneficiaries. The only difference we make is in the endless nuances and possibilities despite the limits of our perceptive powers.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.”
Source: The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success
“Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.”
“Since an emotion's an announcement of value, in this society of the death (of values) emotions moved like zombies through humans.”
Source: My Mother: Demonology
“Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before”
“Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.”
“Since ancient Time began,
Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--
The weight of all this world, the hopes of man,
Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.”
Source: Five Books of Song
“Since ancient times, a full head of hair has been associated with youth and vitality. When we notice lots of hairs on our pillow or in the drain or if our hair looks thin when reflected in the mirror, we ask, “Why am I losing my hair?” and “Can I get it back?” We frantically start searching for solutions without understanding the cause of our hair loss or the science behind treating it.”
Source: Grow It Back: How Laser Phototherapy Stops Hair Loss and Regrows Your Hair
“Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.”
“Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.”
“Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.”
Source: The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology
“Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable.”
“Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly indifferent to our individual affairs--but we can't let the rabble know that; it's the fear of God, the threat of divine punishment and the promise of divine reward, that keeps in line those too unsophisticated to work out questions of morality on their own.”
Source: Calculating God
“Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time.”
“Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.”
“Since Antiquity, rage had been seen as a feature of the powerful. Only those at the top could afford and enact it. They alone had the power to let others feel their rage.”
Source: Emotions in History: Lost and Found
“since any music increases stimulation, use it only when it seems to soothe you. Its purpose is to distract you. Sometimes you need to be distracted; at other times, you need to attend carefully.”
Source: The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
“Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society.”
“Since art does not develop in a vacuum, these literary techniques must be associated with the conception of human nature implicit in biblical monotheism ....: every person is created by an all-seeing God but abandoned to his or her own unfathomable freedom, made in God’s likeness as a matter of cosmogonic principle but almost never as a matter of accomplished ethical fact; and each individual instance of this bundle of paradoxes, encompassing the zenith and the nadir of the created world, requires a special cunning attentiveness in literary representation.”
Source: The Art of Biblical Narrative
“Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls the tune. An artist cannot be at once a rebel and a comfortable citizen.”
“Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.”
“Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.”
“Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.”
“Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.”
“Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.”
“Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.”
“Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick.”
Source: Rex Libris, Volume I: I, Librarian
“Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?”
“Since at the very start of the [Epic of Gilgamesh], the purpose of the encounter of the wild man with the civilized king was to restore justice to the city, the poem has, after all, a happy ending.”
Source: La cité des mots: CBC Massey Lectures
“Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.”
“Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition