S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sit in a chair and keep still. Let the dancer's shoulders emerge from your shoulders, the dancer's chest from your chest, the dancer's loins from your loins, the dancer's hips and thighs from yours; and from your silence the throat that makes a sound, and from your bafflement a clear song to which the dancer moves...”
Source: Book of Mercy
“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“Sit in a theatre, to see a play of hopes and fears, while the orchestra breathes fitfully the music of the spheres”
Source: Ligeia
“Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.”
“Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.”
“Sit in the pigpen with people of ill intent, and see how quickly you, too, start to stink.”
Source: Not Just on Sundays: Seeking God's Purpose in Each New Day
“Sit loosely in the saddle.”
“Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I’ll earn at least $24,000 in cash.”
Source: Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online
“Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)”
“Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial; force it to answer the interrogatories put to it; set the qualifications of the saints on one side, and the qualifications of thy soul on the other side, and then judge what resemblance there is between them.”
“Sit on a cliff and look at the ocean. In the ocean of life, you are a bubble, but you have the power to appreciate the greatness, vastness, and beauty of her. Because you came, sit next to the ocean and enjoy the beauty and appreciate the vast, great, and creative power. She is dancing with joy. You may not know that she is watching you, but she knows you are watching her.”
“Sit on the floor once in a while, on the floor, in the fields, on the streets, you'll remember, what it means to be human.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.”
“Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.”
“Sit quietly and open up to spirit.”
“Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.”
“Sit, smile and be nice...and ask for a lawyer at the first sign of trouble!”
“Sit still and wait for orders from your officers, who are better men than you, coward and weakling that you are, counting for nothing in battle or debate. We cannot all be kings here; and mob rule is a bad thing. Let there be one commander only, one king, set over us by Zeus the Son of Cronos of the Crooked Ways”
Source: The Iliad
“Sit still no more, sleep sound no more, eat calmly no more, for the innocent are crying, and you are the only hope they've got.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth.”
Source: The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
“Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!
The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.”
Source: Eight Lectures on Yoga
“Sit tall in the saddle and hold your head up high. Keep your eyes fixed where the trail
meets the sky, and live like you ain't afraid to die. Don't be scared...just enjoy the ride.”
“Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.”
Source: Poems and songs
“Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.”
“Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret.”
Source: Déjà Dead
“Sit up straight, Dlique. Don’t dismember your sister, Dlique, it isn’t nice. Internal organs belong inside your body, Dlique.”
Source: Ancillary Sword
“Sit up straight, listen and participate.”
Source: Raise the Roof
“Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.”
“Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.”
“Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Sit with the repentant, for they have the softest hearts.”
“Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.”
“Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.”
“Sit!' -Kagome (to InuYasha and he falls.)”
“Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.”
“Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at Phantom. "Sit," he commanded in a deep voice. Phantom looked sheepish and sank straight to the floor. Ivy scowled in frustration. "I've been trying to get him to do that all day! What is it with dogs and male authority?”
“Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar”
“Sit, Your High Majestic Lord Princes," she said. She yanked a chair from the table and sat herself down. "You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," Katsa snapped back.”
“Sit," Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later." ~Chloe to Dageus.”
“Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.”
“Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!”
“Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.”
“Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.”
“Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.”
“Sithemba ngisho kungathembisi, ngoba othembisile , wethembekile”
“Siting and thinking both are different.”
“Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.”
“Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.”
“Sitting alone in a room full of people made me realize just how precious thoughts are.”
“Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.”