S Quotes
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“Since you can’t respond yet and since you have no claws left, I will take this moment to remind you that you thought eating the demon fruit would be a bad idea. It was not. To which I say—” He drew a deep breath. “—I told you so.”
“Fool,” muttered the vetala.
I snarled and with one last burst of strength, swiped my paw behind Vikram’s knees and sent him tumbling. He gasped.
“I will,” he wheezed, rolling onto his stomach, “take your silence as a form of agreement.”
Source: A Crown of Wishes
“Since you can’t say it, will you at least tell me how much you love me?”
Khalid ran the tip of his nose beside her ear, a grateful smile upon his lips.
“From the stars, to the stars.”
Source: The Rose & the Dagger
“Since you can't touch me, you made something that could, didn't you?" I said.
"Yes."
My world slowed and I closed my eyes. "I am going yo give you my heart noe," I whispered. "Please don't break it again.”
Source: The Haunted
“Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic,
or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss,
then you must learn to control you...
the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.”
“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.”
“Since you control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut?”
“Since you died the house style could best
be described as leaves that cling
to trees too long into winter”
Source: 13th Balloon
“Since you exited from my life story, it seems as if time stands still, and my soul has become trapped in that very moment. It's like a coiled spring that can extend and stretch, but ultimately, it always returns to its original shape—back to that frozen moment in time.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
“Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.”
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition
“Since you have accepted the gift of a Friend, you must be ready to do anything for His sake.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.”
“Since you haven’t got a name,” he said. “I guess you can pick one for yourself. Would you like to pick one for me to write down?”
She stopped rocking and looked at him. “I can do that? It’s legal and everything?”
He smiled. “It’s a free country again,” he said. “At least in theory.”
She nodded. “And when I pick a name it can be any name I want?”
He nodded.
“What’s your name?”
“Victor,” he said. “Vic, for short.”
“Okay,” she said, leaning forward and taking the pad from under his large thing hands. “How do you spell that?”
He spelled it and she wrote it down. Her handwriting was perfectly small and legible. “Can I be Victor, too?” she said, looking up from the pad.
He smirked. “It’s a boy’s name,” he said. “You’re a girl. You have to add an i and an a to the end if you want to make it a girl’s name.”
She looked down at the name she had written and added the letters i and a to the end. “Victoria,” she said, passing the notepad back to the cop.
“Hello, Victoria,” he said, smiling, taking the pad and pen back and presenting his hand for a shake. “It’s nice to meet you, officially.”
Source: Atlas
“Since you keep claiming that health is much greater compared to wealth, then how come you still follow the policy that puts profit before people?”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.”
“Since you know God understands, you can boldly go to him.”
“Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
“Since you know the means of getting better, in the name of God, make use of them. Do not take on anything beyond your strength, do not be anxious, do not take things too much to heart, go gently, do not work too long or too hard.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“since you love the color black, I will give you plenty of it. I will lock you in a cell without windows or lamps, where it is black day and night, and you will stay there until you forget what sunlight feels like. Do you like these conditions, flier? Do you like them?”
Source: Windhaven
“Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.”
“Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.”
Source: The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success
“Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.”
“Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice. You choose your own goals based on your own values. Success and failure are both the necessary incentives to learn and to grow. Your action on behalf of others, or their action on behalf of you, is only virtuous when it is derived from voluntary, mutual consent. For virtue can only exist when there is free choice.”
“Since you're hell-bent on a sedentary lifestyle,' he said, 'I thought I'd go one step further and bring your food to you.'
My stomach was already twisting with hunger, and I lowered the book into my lap. 'Thank you.'
A short laugh. 'Thank you? Not "High lord and servant?" Or "Whatever it is you want, you can go shove it up your ass, Rhysand"?' He clicked his tongue. 'How disappointing.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Since you're mortal, Jude, I cannot hold you to your promises. But you can hold me to mine: I guarantee you safe passage. Come back to Elfhame with me, and I will give you the means to end your exile.'
'The means to end it?' I ask. If he thinks I don't know better than to agree to that, he's forgotten everything worth knowing about me.
'Come back to Elfhame, tell me what you would tell me, and your exile will end,' he says. 'I promise.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Since you're not enjoying yourself, perhaps you and Ms. Salazar would like to leave?"
"That's probably wise." Kieran was glaring at me, and I said to Nicole, "In-N-Out sound good to you? I'm starving."
Bull's-eye. Kieran opened his mouth, but Mrs. Hutton clamped her hand onto his forearm.”
Source: The Slowest Burn
“Since you’re obviously in need of something to do, instead of shouting at me through this whole drill, isn’t there some tree you could fell with your bare hands, or a boulder somewhere that needs tossing?”
Source: The Thing About Love
“Since you're so quick with the texts, you could have provided me with a little help when I was negotiating the price of my sherwani. I can't believe how badly Deepa tried to rip me off."
"Are you sulking?" She stared at him, incredulous. "The big venture capitalist who just closed the company's fourth fund at $350 million is sulking because he was bested at negotiating the purchase of a traditional Indian wedding outfit for a fake wedding that will last ten minutes by a frail sixty-year-old woman for whom English is a second language."
"She wasn't frail.”
Source: The Dating Plan
“Since you’ve been gone Nkem, I am not so sure what hardens me more. The days I spend wondering if my name and our shared memories still rummage through the quiet parts of your wonderful mind. Or the nights I must now waste imprisoned to this bed without you.”
“Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round and sharp my eyes have grown how my carcass looks like a glass urn, how I hold up things in the rags of my hands, the way I can stand through crippled by lust. No, there's just your cruelty circling my head like a bright rotting halo.”
“Since you went the sun refuses to shine The sky joins me in weeping for your absence All our pleasure is gone with you ... Silence reigns everywhere ... Oh come back! Already the shepherds and their flocks call for you! Come back soon, or it will be winter in May.”
“Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.”
Source: Hit List: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.”
Source: The Songs and Sonets of John Donne
“Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone anything is ridiculous, if it's important to you.”
“Since you've been gone, I can breath for the first time.”
“Since your life evaporates quickly, it is wisdom to learn how to number your days. Not just to number your days but to make each passing day productive.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It follows that regular physical conditioning should be part of your overall chess training.”
“Since your mindset can make you or break you, how is it going? Is it representing you well or does it need a complete overhaul?”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“Since your outcomes are all a result of your moment-to-moment choices, you have incredible power to change your life by changing those choices. Step by step, day by day, your choices will shape your actions until they become habits, where practice makes them permanent.”
Source: The Compound Effect
“Since your time is your main involvement here - I mean, the clay doesn't cost very much. Even the glaze and the firing doesn't cost a great deal. But your time is the cost, and if you can keep your time to a minimum and still come out with the results you want, that means the pots can be sold for an economic price.”
“Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.”
“Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not seem to decay, at least, not to the point of disintegration and reintegration back into the soil, so the food chain, or the circle of life, seems to end or be short-circuited by their existence. Zombies fulfill the worst potentialities of humans to create a hellish kingdom on earth of endless, sterile repetition and boredom.”
Source: Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth
“Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.”
“Since, by your greatness, you
Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it
In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor,
As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of
The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.”
“Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?”
“Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.”
“Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.”
Source: Morning and Evening
“Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for it, so that it can be regarded as one of the wandering stars. For the fact that it is not the centre of all revolutions is made clear by the apparent irregular motion of the wandering stars, and their variable distances from the Earth, which cannot be understood in a circle having the same centre as the Earth.”
Source: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
“Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.”
Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt
“Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.”