S Quotes
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“So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.”
“So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author's words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date you find a proverb or saying such as: "He who is good to others will be happy." But this is not true. It is a lie. The spectator, perhaps, is content. The spectator likes easy truths. But we are not there to please or pander to the spectator. We are here to tell the truth.”
“So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.”
“So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.”
Source: Uncle Dynamite
“So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.”
Source: The Huston Smith Reader
“So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes.”
“So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.”
“So Americans do want their presidents, by and large, you want them to be people who get things done and have experience. That's going to be Trump's big disadvantage going into this election, because people are going to be looking back and saying, we've got the guy without the experience who said the things that sounded good. And guess what? That hasn't worked out for us too well.”
“So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.”
“So Amira Kashyap, what’s your story?” he asked as he set the big display stopwatch to a designated period of 59 minutes and 59 seconds.
The perfectly tranquil way in which he asked me the question made me slightly nervous, even though I had spent the last few years of my life having imaginary conversations with an imaginary therapist. There were a lot of things I wished to tell him. From wanting to tell him about my first triggers to the very thought of me standing in front of a mirror haunting the living daylights out of me.These were just a couple out of the many thoughts in the archives of my brain. However, my mind went completely blank.
I stammered and hesitated and managed to utter a total of seven words.“I don’t know where to start.”
“Just say the first thing that crosses your mind,” he said.
“I’m scared of food,” I blurted.”
Source: Imperfect Mortals : A Collection of Short Stories
“So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".”
“So, and it is common sense, be in the moment to make things happen in that moment.”
Source: Be First: Achieve Every Dream
“So (and this would have happened earlier, but I am only remembering it now): I am visiting her one afternoon.”
Source: The Only Story
“So anger however called for, can never cook yam. You cannot eat the fruits of your anger.”
Source: Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety
“So Anne Knight holds up her placard, and fixes the dubious observer with her pale unblinking eyes. "Woman has the capacity for instructing man," she wrote, and her toils "have strengthened her mind and matured her judgement till she is now superior to man...”
Source: Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere
“So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.”
“So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.”
“So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.”
“So anyway. If I let Corey take me out again, he’s got this buddy – Kyle maybe? Dunno – anyway, he’s single. Maybe you could come along and we could go doubles.”
Lisa thought being involved in a shop class accident sounded more fun, but she managed a somewhat pleasant expression, or so she hoped. “Isn’t Kyle the one who spent a week in ICU after he tried to jump over a UPS truck with his bike?”
“I think so. Why?”
Lisa sighed. “If I have to explain it…”
Source: Made for Breaking
“So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.”
“So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.”
“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –”
Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice
“So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?" "Men's business. Bit confidential," Griggs says patronisingly. "Wow, wish I were you," Ben says, shaking his head with mock regret. "All I'll be doing tonight is hanging out in Taylor's bedroom, lying on her bed, sharing my earphones with her, hoping she won't hog all the room because it's such a tiny space.”
“So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.”
“So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons
“So are the stories true?” asked Hunter. “Depends,” Becca hedged. “What have you heard?”
“That you knocked two seniors on their asses on the soccer field, then flipped off the coach.”
“Absolutely true,” said Becca, deadpan.”
“So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.”
Source: Gone Girl
“So are we actually cooking Radiasure?" Carols asks as he plops on his brother's bed. "Because if Mom and Dad catch us we'll never see the outside of the confession bootha gain."
Bea rolls her eyes. "Nothing new for you.”
Source: Blindsided
“So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn’t end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)”
Source: One Silent Night
“So are we going to eat some Boo Berry or what?" John said, leaping out of his seat and toward the refrigerator.”
Source: Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past
“So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?”
“So, are you a hero, Cole Walker?”
“What is a hero, really?”
“I suppose it’s someone that saves people.”
“Yeah, I suppose it is.”
“So, do you save people?”
“I’m only fifteen. Give me a chance.”
Source: Echoes of Scotland Street
“So... are you also chasing butterflies?”
“So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.”
Source: Zoo City
“So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. “I guess I'm bipossible,” he had said.”
“So are you going ahead with your plan?” Danny demanded.
“Yeah. Sure,” Todd said. “I have to. They just took the weekend off. For sure. Tomorrow is school. That means more worms in my backpack, in my books, in my lunch.”
“Yuck,” Danny murmured on the other end of the line.”
“So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.”
“So, are you going to tell her?” Mark asked. He was, and still is, a persistent person.
Good question, I thought as I stared blankly into space. Am I going to march up to Martina Elizabeth and tell her that I love her? I pondered the question carefully as though it was part of some unscheduled final exam. Instead of answers, however, all I could come up with was a series of dilemmas.
I noticed that Mark was still staring at me with a quizzical look on his face. “What?” I yelped.
“You haven’t answered my question, man,”
I looked down, inhaled deeply, looked up and exhaled very slowly. “I, uh, don’t know.” I turned my gaze to my lunch tray, the other tables, and the clock on the wall. Anything to avoid my best friend’s inquisitive gaze.
“I’ll take that as a resounding ‘no,’” Mark said.
“I didn’t say that.”
“No,” Mark said, “but it’s what you meant to say.”
“I – I can’t tell her. Not now.”
“Why the fuck not?” Mark asked, his voice rising in pitch and volume. A group of student journalists from The Serpent’s Tale – Alan Goode, Francisco Vargas, Juan Calderon and Roger Lawrence – looked at us with bemused expressions from one of the neighboring tables. Mark noticed, cleared his throat and lowered his voice to a half-whisper. “Why don’t you tell her, you dumbass?”
“I can’t,” I repeated, shaking my head emphatically.
“What are you so afraid of?”
Another good question. “Nothing…everything,” I replied.
“What, pray tell, do you mean?” Mark asked. “Are you more afraid that she doesn’t like you, or that she does?”
Source: Reunion: A Story: A Novella
“So are you going to tell me why Ronowski pulled you into the break room when we got back today?” God asked watching Day closely.
Day shook his head at him, smiling wickedly. “It was about sex.”
“No fucking way. He came to you about sex?” God said, not hiding his shock.
“Who else is he going to ask…his priest?” Day said and quickly dodged the piece of garlic bread God threw at his head.
“Do I want to know?” God said.
“It wasn’t too bad. He wanted to know the best way to pleasure Johnson.” Day laughed when God balled up his face and made a gagging sound.
“There intimacy has been pretty one-sided from what I could understand. Ro was still pretty shy about telling me stuff, so I was mostly guessing.” Day wiped his mouth with his napkin before continuing. “Being the stud that I am…I gave the kid a few pointers.”
“Stud, huh?” God smiled.
“Yeah. I don’t mind taking the little tike under my homosexual wing and showing him how to fly.” Day grinned.
“You’re twisted. And isn’t Ro like the same age as you,” God said.
Day blew an exasperated breath. “Regardless of age, Cash. I have more experience. Way more. Way, way, way more experience with fucking men than anyone I—”
“I fucking got it, Leo.” God scowled at him.
Day laughed hysterically. “I told him all about how I make you scream my name every night.” Day chuckled and bolted up from his chair when God took off after him. Day ran back into the kitchen, jumping and gliding across the kitchen island on his hip and racing into the den. God was hot on his heels.
“I’ll catch you, you quick little bastard. And when I do, I’m going to show you just how loud I can make you scream,” God said in his sexy rough-hewn voice.
“Oh fuck.”
Day was laughing so hard he could barely just keep out of God’s grip. He dodged him in the living room, leaping over the coffee table heading fast toward the stairs when he was caught around his waist with a strong arm and dragged back down the two steps he’d cleared.”
“So are you here looking for Nick Santucci as a possible Mr. Right? ‘Cause, honey, Mr.
Right could be fat, bald or married—and very possibly, all three.”
Bliss blinked. “It’s scary how much we think alike. And the answer is not just no, but hell
no. I think. So, are you not looking for Mr. Right, either?”
“There’s no such animal,” Fran scoffed. “But I wouldn’t mind a few rounds with Mr.
Wrong,” she said, and surprisingly enough, she almost sounded wistful.”
Source: IOU
“So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.”
“So are you officially moved in to her place yet, or just staying over there every night?”
Source: Midnight Wrangler
“So are you saying I’m your Superman?”
--- Josh Copeland”
Source: His Wicked Desire
“So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?”
“So are you, sunshine,” Paige replied. “Bad night?”
Even though he didn’t take off his sunglasses, I knew he was staring straight at me.
“I’ve had better,” he said with an entirely straight face, while I coloured up from head to toe. “I’ve had worse.”
…
“Now, now children,” Paige intervened, entirely oblivious to the extreme level of bitchy subtext flying across the table. “Let’s not have fisticuffs … Can we kiss and make up?”
Nick turned up one corner of his mouth and nodded. “I’m game if you are, Vanessa.”
“I think she means figuratively,” I said, adding cream to my coffee. “I’m a professional.”
“Really?” He rested his elbows on the table and pushed his glasses up over his eyebrows. “I probably owe you some money then.”
“So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.”
Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved
“So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?”
“So are you willing to spend your numbered days to settle in a bad relationship? To spend time at a job that you never loved? To waste your days reminiscing the past, or to hold grudges for people who did you wrong? None of these things are worth sacrificing your life for. When you see life for the fragile gift it is, you would not want to spend even a second resenting or being frustrated.”
Source: Live More: Magic Begins with You
“So, are your lips red and puffy like mine?” Tate teases….“Good, I want to make them red and puffy again very soon, you in?”
Source: Sliding
“So, Ariadne was the babe with the ball of twine and the plan.”
Source: Double Trouble