S Quotes
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“So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.”
Source: Address Delivered by J.J. Sylvester, F.R.S. (corresponding Member of the Institute of France), Professor of Mathematics, at Johns Hopkins University on Commemoration Day, February 22, 1877
“So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?”
“So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.”
Source: White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war
“So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.”
Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters
“So long as a person who has made mistakes . . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra
“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.”
Source: Essays on Sex Equality
“So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.”
Source: William James: Essays and Lectures
“So long as breath remains in our lungs, untapped potential lies inside us, waiting to be released. The reason we are still alive is that we are carrying something inside us that this generation needs. That’s why we’re not yet in heaven.”
“So long as Christians remained members of a suspect society, subject to death, the boldest among them maintained that, since demons controlled the government and inspired its agents, the believer could gain freedom at their hands only in death.”
Source: Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
“So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.”
“So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.”
Source: My Life and Mission
“So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.”
Source: Shaping the American Character: The Significance of the Frontier in American History
“So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.”
“So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's nations was one of the great triumphalist themes of modernism. World's fairs were staged in its honor, one after another. Now that globalization is here, however, it arouses more anxiety than pride. The erasing of differences may not portend the era of universal reconciliation that everyone confidently expected.”
Source: The One by Whom Scandal Comes
“So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.”
“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”
Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written
“So long as greed drives the industries, it's not industrialization, it is vandalization.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.”
Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated
“So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”
Source: 1984
“So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.”
“So long as humanity lives, there shall be differences in opinion, but mark this my friend, each human mind may think differently from the other, but all minds have the capacity to step beyond those differences in thoughts and be one with each other in the land beyond differences.”
Source: Saint of The Sapiens
“So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.”
Source: The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches
“So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.”
Source: The Greatest Secret In The World
“So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.”
“So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.”
Source: The Works of George Berkeley: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, Etc. : to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life
“So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.”
“So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.”
Source: Building networks for nonviolent social change: report of the Fourth Annual Summer Institute on Nonviolence, Atlanta, Georgia, July 31-August 2, 1980 [i.e. 1979]
“So long as I do not know his name perhaps I may still forget him, time will obliterate it, this picture. But his name, it is a nail that will be hammered into me and never come out again. It has the power to recall this forever, it will always come back and stand before me.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“So long as I get some sleep and get to take care of myself and eat healthy and that sort of thing, I'm OK. I'm not out there digging ditches and it's not brain surgery.”
“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
Source: The Hour of the Star
“So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.”
Source: The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)
“So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my bad temper is exhausted, I have no language left at all: the world is not "unreal" (I could then utter it: there are arts of the unreal, among them the greatest arts of all), but disreal: reality has fled from it, is nowhere, so that I no longer have any meaning (any paradigm) available to me; *I do not manage* to define my relations with Coluche, the restaurant, the painter, the Piazza del Popolo. What relation can I have with a system of power if I am neither its slave nor its accomplice nor its witness."
—from_A Lover's Discourse: Fragments_”
“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.
Now, he is free.”
Source: Champion
“So long as I remember the things that count. ", FADE by Kailin Gow”
“So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.”
“So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success.”
“So long as I'm the president, we will. I clearly see the challenge. I see the challenge of what these threats pose to our homeland, and I see the challenge of what these threats pose to the world.”
“So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying
“So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.”
Source: Les miserables
“So long as it continues to blind you, keep mooning the sun and walking on to let the dawn of your own vision define you.”
Source: Sleeping With Enormity: The Art Of Seducing Your Dreams & Living With Passion
“So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.”
“So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.”
“So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”
Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
“So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient for inquiry. A stepping-stone version of prior true belief seems reasonable, though perhaps we should accept only an even weaker view: a stepping-stone version of roughly-accurate beliefs.”
“So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.”
“So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.”
Source: Tyranny of the status quo