S Quotes
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“So ended . . . a royal friendship which once could not be contained within the common bounds of love.”
Source: Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
“So endeth the story of the winning of Excalibur, and may God give unto you in your life, that you may have His truth to aid you, like a shining sword, for to overcome your enemies; and may He give you Faith (for Faith containeth Truth as a scabbard containeth its sword), and may that Faith heal all your wounds of sorrow as the sheath of Excalibur healed all the wounds of him who wore that excellent weapon. For with Truth and Faith girded upon you, you shall be as well able to fight all your battles as did that noble hero of old, whom men called King Arthur.”
Source: The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
“So endgames are naturally messy.
They may not be very dynamic, but when an active war is shutting down, there is still a lot of cleaning up to do. It may sound grim, but that's what it looks like. There are broken things everywhere, wounds and corpses, general messiness. Things collapsing due to zemblanity forces that have been set in motion but are too large to control.”
Source: Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths
“So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author
“So engrained in the human heart is the desire to believe that some people really do know what they say they know, and can thus save them from the trouble of thinking for themselves, that in a short time would-be philosophers and faddists became more powerful than ever, and gradually led their countrymen to accept all those absurd views of life, some account of which I have given in my earlier chapters. Indeed I can see no hope for the Erewhonians till they have got to understand that reason uncorrected by instinct is as bad as instinct uncorrected by reason.”
Source: Erewhon
“So enjoy the exhilaration when it comes. Take the ride to the heights when you get the opportunity. But don't get hooked on the thrill of the moment. Take charge of your emotions. And when it comes time to do the right thing, don't let your feelings lead you to compromise. That is the way to live a happier, more successful life and one that is more pleasing to God.”
Source: Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.”
“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.”
“So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.”
“So entrenched is our fictional image of Gypsies that we often brush aside real-world experiences as a mirage when they contradict the picture that we have absorbed and internalized.”
Source: I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies
“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.”
“So Eurodollars were in one sense dollars like any other, but in another sense they were different because they had escaped into a market outside government control, where they could behave freely. It’s a bit like taking someone from their family home in the suburbs to a wild part of town and offering them whisky and cocaine. They are the same person but also different – more fun but also more irresponsible.”
Source: The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer
“So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.”
“So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.”
“So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful than death. And even those who have committed great violence can have the image of God come to life again within them as they hear the whisper of love. May the whisper of love grow louder than the thunder of violence. May we love loudly.”
Source: Jesus for President
“So even if it wasn’t true, and you know, at the time I thought it probably wasn’t, it still felt nice to hear and imagine what it would be like to have affected someone’s life in that way. To have made such an impact. To put someone’s heart at ease, even when yours isn’t.”
Source: Counting Stars
“So, even if the pain doesn't immediately subside. I shall continually strive, until I can effortlessly glide.”
Source: Hills And Valleys and the Spiritual Warfare in Between
“So even in hell, there are clowns.”
Source: A Deepness in the Sky
“So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and a life-changing chaos,I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on.”
Source: Untamed
“So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.”
Source: Rabbit Hole (movie tie-in)
“So even these stages of progression, whether it's your career or whatever, you get somewhere, but then it always brings a new host of issues that are relative dissatisfactions to a certain degree. I think it was a great philosopher who once said, "Mo' money, mo' problems."”
“So even though every fiber of my being is screaming out that everything about this situation is beneath me, I have to face that turning down an opportunity for honest paid work in my field is more beneath me.
Pride is a lot harder to swallow than a black and white cookie. (p39)”
Source: Wedding Girl
“So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.”
“So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.”
“So eventually, our mutual ignorance of each other's faith cancelled each other out and we found ourselves at a stalemate, a common ground beyond our misunderstandings, where we could begin a healthy and open dialogue about the similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam… but our face to face dialogues helped us begin to comprehend with some degree of clarity what the other group actually believed.”
Source: Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
“So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.”
“So every bondman in his own hand bears
The power to cancel his captivity.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“So every conscious thought forms either a negative or positive feedback loop with the environment that is conscious of that thought. Your imagination is a remote controller for reality.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.”
Source: Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theology
“So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.”
Source: Red Bird: Poems
“So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.”
“So every dollar spent on finding some gene or hormone to explain why becoming fat is not because of sugary drinks, fried foods or unchecked gluttony is a dollar not spent on getting food for the hungry, vaccines for babies, shelter for the homeless. But the rules are made by the ones in power, these neo-Brahmins, and we must follow them if we want to survive in this global village.”
Source: The Death of Mitali Dotto
“So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.”
“So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive to people... I find such people sort of charming, even though they usually don't like me.”
“So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can't change the songs; people still want to hear "Lady Sings the Blues" and they still want to hear some of the oldies.”
“So every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this, we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.”
“So every time the Democratic Party appears to be lifting up a principled, people-powered agenda, it slaps it down and it keeps becoming more dominated by corporate money and corporatist, militarist policies.”
“So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.”
“So everybody lives the way they're told to.
The way they have to. Everybody most of the time. Not ever all the time. Hair style, clothing, manner of speech, ideas, cars, houses, and everything. Just like they have to. Even the way we walk. But not all the time. Comes a time when everybody breaks out. And that's the only characteristic of human nature I know of. Not greed, not obedience, not violence, nor any of those things the capitalists would have us believe are intrinsic. Only rebellion.”
Source: Taxi! : A novel
“So everybody who talks about homosexuals as a damnation better look in a mirror and try to heal their own selves. Who they call homosexuals do, at least, act out of their love. That’s better than the hate a whole lot of people act out of.”
Source: Some Soul to Keep
“So everyone is in a hurry
These days that we worry
Right when we need to breath.
Excess of stress we catch,
That we forget to stretch
Causing pain for miles away,
Hence ruining a running day!!”
Source: ACross Tic
“So everything I do is to minimize the risk of that happening. That helps me fight the mental urge to doubt myself, to create problems that haven’t happened and overthink everything that could go wrong.”
Source: Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness
“So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.”
Source: The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy
“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”
“So everything that has happened to you, that will happen to you, that is happening to you is perfect for you. Treat it that way, and your whole existence will change — perfectly.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“So, everything that’s happened, that’s just the way life is, and it’s never going to be the way you think you want it. I’m not embarrassed about my brother, but I just don’t want to relive it, because people ask, “Oh, where’s your brother, what’s he doing?” and I have to say I don’t know, I haven’t seen him in over 30 years.”
Source: Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
“So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.”
“So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me? And Marcus, being Marcus, knew what I really wanted to know, and answered my silent, more significant question. He held up his hand to shield the rays and looked me in the eyes. Almost.”
“So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.”
“So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.”