S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Slap on a plume and call me a Fuerma, I can’t believe you’re the Ieta.”
Source: Rise of the Ieta
“Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!”
“Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.”
“Slapped her then I asked her what's my name. She said N-I-C, the president of the N-Y-C.”
“Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.”
“Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron.”
“Slapping someone in real life is not like slapping someone in the movies. There is no victory or empowerment or dramatic romantic tension in it. A slap in real life just leaves your fingers burning and the lingering truth that something is irreversibly wrong.”
Source: Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
“Slapping your pockets to make sure you haven't lost anything.”
“Slash can take three notes and make a beautiful solo. And that's one thing I've always really admired about his guitar playing. I'm a huge Slash fan all around.”
“Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.”
“Slash was about my height, and he used the alignment of our bodies to his greatest advantage. I let it go on for a few minutes. Right up until he unzipped his leather pants and pulled out Mr. One Eye.”
Source: At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel
“Slashdot. I did that.”
“Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.”
Source: The Brightest Star in the Sky
“Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy **it, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.”
“Slashing and cutting are different.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.”
“Slate had so many maps of his past; why shouldn't I have a map of my future? I couldn't spend my life stuck on my father's ship, tossed by his tempestuous moods, waiting for the day when he managed to steer us directly onto the rocky shore where his siren sang.”
Source: The Girl from Everywhere
“Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.”
“Slate reached the thorn tree and leaped into the branches, climbing nimbly to the very top. The moonlight turned her thick, gray pelt to silver and her eyes shone like two tiny moons. The branch swayed beneath her and she balanced there without a trace of fear.”
Source: The Blazing Star
“Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.”
“Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.”
“Slattern! What a wonderful new word. 'Slattern,' I murmur appreciatively to Patricia.
'Yes, slattern,' Bunty says firmly. 'That's what she is.'
'Not a slut like you then?' Patricia says very quietly. Loud enough to be heard, but too quiet to be believed.”
Source: Behind the scenes at the museum
“Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.”
“Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.”
Source: Caligula and Cross purpose
“Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.”
“Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!”
“Slave life; freed life--everyday was a test and a trial. Nothing could be counted on in a world where even you were a solution you were a problem”
Source: Beloved
“Slave, my hands are sticky. Come, wash them. Bring the perfumed water." Passia waved at me with a finger slick with honey. She was radiant, lying on the couch next to Helene. Both were dressed in new stolae that Aelia had gifted them for the holiday.
I grinned and rushed forward with the basin and a towel. "Permission to speak," I asked her as I took her sticky hand in mine.
She smirked. "Permission granted."
I slowly ran the damp towel across each slender finger. I kept my voice low so only she could hear. "Later, my dear Domina, I would be delighted to wash you in private."
She raised an eyebrow at me. "I think you will have to prove yourself first, boy."
I bowed in front of her, my head on the tiles. "I will do anything you require, Domina."
"Good. Now fetch me some more honey fritters. And you will clean my hands again, when I call for you."
I winked at her. "Yes, Domina. Anything for you."
That night our lovemaking tasted sweeter than all the honey in Iberia.”
Source: Feast of Sorrow
“Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.”
“Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.”
“Slave the mankind... by constant trauma... by doing that... you lower all mankinds value.”
“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.”
“Slavegirls' brats, sir, are not heralded by proud fathers in the 'Daily Gazette.' The fact that I exist is marked only by my standing here before you, blood and bone decked out in a new dress. The modern philosophers may grant me a soul, but nobody – lord, nobody – burdens me with a fate to be foreseen!”
Source: The Course of Honour
“Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.”
“Slavernij is iets gewoons. Daar hoeven wij ons helemaal niet voor te schamen. Wat we moeten proberen uit te leggen is waarom er in West-Europa na 1450 geen slavernij meer was, maar elders in de wereld nog wel. Ik zou de stelling aandurven dat West-Europa mét slavernij nog rijker was geworden en economisch harder was gegroeid dan zonder slavernij.”
“Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.”
Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters
“Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.”
“Slavery and mastery are ugly things. But if the slave or master looks, behaves and talks in formal manner, slavery and mastery not only become acceptable but also respectable.
After fire, formality is the next best discovery of mankind. Fire makes everything eatable, formality makes everything acceptable and respectable.”
“Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have climbed to power and glory on the backs of slaves. In other times slaves have dwindled in number and economic importance. But never has slavery disappeared.”
Source: Slavery
“Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”
“Slavery can never be abolished.”
Source: Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia
“Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.”
“Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.”
Source: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
“Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.”
Source: Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery
“Slavery did not break me. It just made me quieter.”
Source: The Sword and the Hearth
“Slavery did not happen by force as most people thought. It started more on a mental level before physically chaining people like wild animals.”
“Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.”
“Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.”
“Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.”
“Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families. Slavery has no use for either fathers or families, and its laws do not recognize their existence in the social arrangements of the plantation. When they do exist, they are not the outgrowths of slavery, but are antagonistic to that system. The order of civilization is reversed here”
Source: My Bondage and My Freedom