S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.”
Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
“Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.”
Source: Jenny Holzer
“Slot machine addiction is a solitary undertaking. It is not a social event like drinking or drug use. Slot machine addicts can gamble compulsively for years without family or friends even suspecting.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“Slot machine addicts’ brains are tuned to hope for, and even expect, that they will get the big reward (a big win) right down to their very last spin. Studies have indicated that the anticipation of a reward activates the dopamine cycle even more than an actual reward.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“Slot-machine addicts don’t commit suicide because they have lost all their money, or feel guilt, or shame, or feel weak or are tired of lying. They commit suicide when they finally conclude that they will never be able to quit gambling, that no amount of will power or treatment will ever help them to stop. They commit suicide when they finally decide that all hope is gone.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“Slot machines are like crack for old people.”
“Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Sloth is all passions the most powerful.”
“Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.”
“Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.”
Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition
“Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything we do is to be a means of salvation. The slothful person is unwilling to do what God wants because of the effort it takes to do it. Sloth becomes a sin when it slows down and even brings to a halt the energy we must expend in using the means to salvation.”
Source: Pocket Catholic Catechism
“Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.”
Source: If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat
“Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.”
Source: Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins
“Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.”
“Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.”
Source: Table-talk
“Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.”
“Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.”
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.”
Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Including Poor Richard's Almanac, and Familiar Letters
“Sloth may disguise itself as "conscientious work" and meet with various forms of public approval or success. But work that is not motivated by love for the life of the community, beyond the temporal and spatial confines of one's own small life, cannot free either worker or community from profound anxiety.”
“Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.”
“Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.”
“Sloths actually are like furry living ecosystems all by themselves! Algae grows on their fur and they are also home to "sloth moths" who call them home and drink their tears.”
“Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.”
“Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.”
“Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader
“Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.”
“sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.”
“Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.”
Source: The characters, or, the manners of the present age
“Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.”
“Slow-and-Steady wins no race at all except when no one is participating; because he completes the ‘competition’ when the judges and spectators have all gone home. Who then declares him winner?”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Slow and steady wins the race, not the person who wants to climb the whole stairs in one stride.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken.”
“Slow and steady wins the race' sounds good only in story books. In real life, aim to be the hare who does not stop to rest.”
“Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.”
“Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.”
“Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise”
“Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come.”
“Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.”
“Slow but steady wins the race.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.”
“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
“Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won't always be there.”
Source: Every Day a Friday: How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week
“Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life. Take time to be still and breathe.”
“Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.”
Source: Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time
“Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.”