S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sincerity is barely an explanation: it is never an excuse.”
“Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.”
“Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.”
Source: The North American Review
“Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.”
Source: Works
“Sincerity is moral truth.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.”
“Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.”
“Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.”
“Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?”
“Sincerity is romantic. I don't think you need gestures.”
“Sincerity is sexy, and my cynical heart notices.”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“Sincerity is simplicity.”
“Sincerity is something that you learn by unlearn it.”
“Sincerity is technique.”
“Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“Sincerity is the bearer of all of life's gifts.”
Source: The Incarnate
“Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.”
“Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.”
Source: The Light Within Us
“Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay”
“Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.”
“Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.”
“Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.”
“Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.”
“Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.”
Source: The works of that eminent servant of Christ ...
“Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.”
“Sincerity is the way of heaven.”
Source: Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean
“Sincerity is the way to heaven.”
“Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.”
Source: The Chinese Classics
“Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.”
“Sincerity itself is the railroad track.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.”
“Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.”
“Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.”
Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
“Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.”
“Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.”
Source: Clearing the ground
“Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.”
“Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.”
Source: Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
“Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.”
“Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.”
“Sincerity? I can fake that.”
“Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.”
“Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.”
“Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?”
“Sind das Schneeengel, die sie da nachmacht?" Und dabei dachte ich, Kelsey wäre verrückt. Obwohl Sarah, wie sie sich im Bett wälzte, eigentlich ganz süß aussah – auf die schräge Art.
„Oh Gott, ist die knuffig. Darf ich sie behalten, bitte, bitte“, flehte Kelsey neben mir und ihre Augen leuchten, was mich kurz zum Lachen brachte.
„Sie ist kein Chihuahua, denn du behalten kannst.“
Kelsey schmollte, was bedeutete, dass sie auf ihre typische Art, die Unterlippe wie ein Kleinkind nach vorne schob.
„Aber ich füttere sie auch und bin ganz lieb zu ihr. Versprochen.“
In diesem Moment stoppte Sarah abrupt mit ihren Bewegungen, setzte sich auf die Knie und starrte uns mit roten Wangen an. Zuerst blickte sie zu Kelsey, zu mir und dann wieder zu Kelsey, bevor sie bei mir hängen blieb.
„Hat sie etwa gerade gesagt, ich sei ein Hund?“
Ich prustete los und Kelsey zwinkerte Sarah zu.
„Eigentlich hat sie gesagt, dass du knuffig bist und sie dich behalten will, worauf ich gemeint habe, du bist kein Chihuahua.“
„Das ist aber auch nicht besser“, gab sie irritiert zurück, und ich zuckte mit den Schultern. „Es gibt aber Schlimmeres."
(Johnny)”
Source: Road to Hallelujah
“Sind Sie vom Himmel?', fragte sie.
'Machen Sie sich keine Illusionen. Ich bin aus Matadepera.”
“Sind wir Menschen mehr als die Chancen, die wir nicht genutzt haben? Können wir je mehr sein als das?”
Source: Wanderherzen