S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor.Grasp it; sense it - tremulous and tender.Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light - and listen to the music of the night !”
“Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless”
“Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.”
“Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.”
“Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.”
Source: Inheritance of Loss
“Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon.”
“Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.”
“Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east.”
Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books
“Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.”
“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”
Source: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
“Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears”
“Slowness is a stability phase of life but not a mark of failure”
“Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship.”
Source: A Philosophy of Walking
“Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.”
“Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.”
“Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.”
Source: The Songlines
“Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.”
Source: Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].
“Sluggish minds don't invent ideas, they invent philosophies.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.”
Source: The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories
“Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.”
Source: Autobiographical and political
“Slumber party with Dracula, all things considerd why not?”
“Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.”
“Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.”
“Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.”
Source: THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG
“Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.”
“Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.”
“Slumps don't bother me.”
“Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.”
“Slurring is the cursive of speech.”
Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel
“Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“Slushy spiked lemonade/beer
Boiled peanuts/homemade pickles/kettle corn
Mini corn dogs with chili ketchup, curried mustard,
and cheese sauce
Turkey leg confit
Deep-fried Brussels sprouts
Poker-chip potatoes
Ginger-pear sno-cones and cotton candy
Pumpkin funnel cake
"What the hell are poker-chip potatoes?"
"I'm going to slice the potatoes paper thin- like poker chips or carnival tokens- and line them up in a baking dish, accordion-style, with thyme, shallots, and garlic, and bake them until they're crispy around the edges but tender in the middle.”
Source: The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs
“Slut, bitch, prude, tease, ditz. They were all the same. Every girl felt like one of those sexist labels described her at some point.
So, maybe, every girl felt like the Duff, too?”
Source: The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
“Slut. I’m a dirty-
The sound of a hand hitting flesh was simultaneous with the shocking sting on her bottom. “Ow!”
“You don’t think those nasty thoughts about my sumisita, Kimberly.”
Source: To Command and Collar
“Slutet på hat är civiliserad gudomlighet.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Slutim da i ako se dogodi aberacija procesa potpune spoznaje, ako dođe do urušavanja saveza mene i svega, i neka ispriječi sve mi odlazak dok pokušavam otići pristojno van - sve će ipak zastati na dobrom, a ja ću nestati; počinjem to nazirati, osjećati, čak slutjeti kao neučinjene pokrete lasnoga plesa onoga svega što je odvajkada mrtvo, a ja sam jednom i sanjao baš o tomu.”
“Govorite mi, nemojte šutjeti, o čemu ste sanjali...?”
“O smrti koja poja u vječnosti ništavila, o bezbrojnim generacijama bića koji razgovaraju sami sa sobom nemajući mogućnost obratiti se onima prije sebe, a jedan za drugim odlaze u grob; sanjao sam i dokidanje toga, kao jednom, nekad, zbilo se da je svjesna pojava osvojila i smrt, pa se dogodilo u kutku svekolikosti da je netko ovladao rađanjem i smrću, te je mogao birati kad će se roditi, gdje, kako, gdje će umrijeti i hoće li uopće kusati smrti... Tada je došlo redefiniranje.”
“Biti mrtav prestalo je značiti biti mrtav?”
“Biti mrtav je postalo jednako životu, a sve što živi je shvaćeno kao pokret smrti, upravo revolt smrti, a simfonija koja nikada nije počela, koja nikada se, izgleda, neće utišati, pokrivena veom tišine, polako se otkrila i postala čujna (a ona je sve vrijeme svirala!...), čak i groznim pojavama kakva sam ja. Veoma, zapravo... grandiozno.”
Source: Veliki pad
“Slutiness is a very underrated quality in a girl.”
“Slušaj svog tajnog i najčešće nepogrešivog čuvara hrabrih. On boravi u glavi, ali i ispod srca.”
Source: Верник
“SLVR, as a 'sexier' looking device, will do better for Motorola than the ROKR.”
“Sly enough to capture a bird, cruel enough to keep it in a cage, too stupid to know he would be the death of it.”
Source: Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil
“Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.”
“Sly vendors of tears who like to provoke emotional wreckage should be eschewed intently. Let us not be content with fake commitments but care for genuine concern. When we listen attentively to what tears tell us, we can comprehend their story. Empathy allows us to interpret and respond supportively since tears can convey awareness and identify fear, grief, shortage, or joy. ("Words had disappeared”)”
“Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.”
Source: The writings of a savage
“SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.”
“SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.”
“Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.”
“Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.”
Source: Strictly for laughs
“Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.”