S Quotes
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“So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.”
“So let's say you realize that you are never going to be a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. person. You're not cut out for that sort of typical work environment. The benefit might be that if you embrace that and say I need to be self-employed or I need to be doing more project-oriented work. Identify the benefits - I'd be more productive. I'd be happier. The people around me would be happier because my mood would be better. When you identify the benefits of accepting the behavior or habit, you actually give leverage to it and give yourself a better chance of sticking with it.”
“So let's see what they [Republicans] are going to do. If they're going to put together great programs, and everybody understands that they're good.”
“So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is not the opposite of faith. The opposite of reason is irrationality. Do some Christians have irrational faith? Sure. Do some skeptics have unreasonable unbelief? You bet. It works both ways.”
“So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start...)”
Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
“So let's take our time to say what we want. Use what we got before it's all gone.”
“So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.”
“So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.”
“So lets knock a couple back and make some noise”
“So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!”
“So Lightning says to Mud,
“What would happen if I struck your blood?”
And Mud says, “Brother,
It would hurt,
And make me the mother
Of every living thing.
But, Fire Boy, you ain’t lifting my grass skirt
Until you burn me a ring.”
“So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.”
“So, like diamonds that require an immense amount of pressure and energy to form one hundred miles under the surface of the earth, women are just harder to make.”
Source: The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
“So, like so many artists before me, my comrades-in-arms, Rembrandt, Rubens, da Vinci, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, anyone who willingly put themselves through this same ordeal, I purchased everything I needed and began hauling my canvases, easel, and paints all over the large metropolis of Vienna every day. I searched for my voice, my signature, what made my paintings inherently and unmistakably mine.”
Source: Hitler in the Madhouse
“So, like, the master needed a hand, if you know what I mean, so I was like, "Oh chill, it's a stress thing, everyone does it. I'm flicking the bean under the table right now just to dial the tension back a little. Yes. Yes. Yes! Oh-zombie-jeebus-fuck-me-Simba-lion-king-hakuna-matata! Yes!"
--The Chronicles of Abby Normal”
Source: Bite Me
“So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.”
“So, Lilith. How do you intend to save the world?”
Source: Six Scorched Roses
“So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage. So limp of body that their purple dresses appear no more indicative of housing nerves and sinews than when they hang suspended from their hooks.”
Source: Gormenghast
“So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.”
“So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“So listen up, conservative Evangelical Christians: you have to choose. Either the scriptures are unchanging and therefore dead, or they are living and therefore equipped for change and adaptation, through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
Source: Where True Love Is: An Affirming Devotional for LGBTQI+ Individuals and Their Allies
“So listen, man, "weird" is my middle name. I'm ready for anything. The weirder, the better.”
“So little cost to comprehend that what has long been lawful, over centuries, comes forever out of Nature.”
“So little done, so much to do.”
“So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that they never perceived that not only was no sin intended in this disobedience, but that actually the 'Serpent' was 'the Lord God' himself, who, as the Ophis, the Logos, or the bearer of divine creative wisdom, taught mankind to become creators in their turn.”
Source: The Secret Doctrine
“So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .”
“So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.”
Source: The Portable Milton
“So little Moon Pig put her snout into the soft dandelion head, which was round, and glowing, just like the moon. She blew and blew...”
Source: Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid
“So little of what could happen does happen.”
“So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don't do. There are a lot of things that a prime minister or a president can do and they don't do them because it never occurs to them to do them.”
“So little time and so little to do.”
Source: The unimportance of being Oscar
“So little time we live in Time,
And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour's term
To practice for Eternity.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
“So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)
“So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable.”
“So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.”
Source: Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God
“So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
Thanatopsis”
Source: Thanatopsis; To a Waterfowl; A Midsummer Sonnet
“So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.”
“So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.”
“So live your life and conquer the world, because it is your world. It is your world and all of us... we are all simply living in it. Every last one of us. This world revolves around you, this world revolves for you, and this world remains to turn and always will for as long as you live... because of you. So you go and you live and you learn and you love, with everything you have in you.”
Source: Counting Stars
“So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.”
“So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take, His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged by his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed, By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch, About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”
“So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.”
“So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.”
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?”
“So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.”
Source: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
“So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.”
“So long as a man doesn't give in, he is still more than his fate.”
Source: Three Comrades
“So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.”
“So long as a man knows the meaning of fear, he will need the ways and means to defend himself against that fear.”