S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“So many leaders are bound by a contract to lead when it should be bound by your choice to lead”
“So many legends have grown up around the fate of the surviving children that it is almost impossible to determine where the truth lies. The Parowan Ward record, already quoted, was definite in its statement that “the entire Company was destroyed, except 18 small children…”
Source: The Mountain Meadows Massacre
“So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation”
Source: Midnight at the Electric
“So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.”
Source: Mr g: A Novel About the Creation
“So many lives I touch, so much anger.”
“So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.”
“So many lovers (and singles) are starving for a DEEPER CONNECTION. I believe it is actually our sensuality that is being starved, for it is what was intended to satisfy our soul's deepest hunger for love.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.”
“So many means of self-destruction, so little time.”
“So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“So many memories come rushing over me as I stand here. They run through my mind like a movie…an old Italian movie. Some scenes are in black and white. Some are in vivid color. Some are silent…just images etched into my memory. Many are filled with laughter or tears. They all bring back the happiness of Terra d’Amore and a life in the paradise of my youth. The sights and the sounds and the smells are all returning to me now, filling up my senses, overwhelming my heart.”
Source: Terra d'Amore. Sojourners
“So many memories come to mind—the child you were, the adult you’ve become—so much anguish for what happened all those years ago. You never wanted to let anyone down, I know. You feel everything so intensely. Just don’t tell me that you don’t deserve better. You do. Don’t tell me you’re a failure. You’re not. We learn from every mistake. That’s not failing; it’s growing. You are a beautiful, empathetic being of love and light. And don’t say hope will damn you. It won’t always, I promise.”
Source: Grateful to Be Alive: My Road to Recovery from Addiction
“So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.”
Source: Shadowplay
“So many men, so little parking.”
Source: Mislaid
“So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn't mind-- no that's not right--he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.”
Source: Shadow of the Mountains
“So many men work so hard to keep the home going that they lose touch with the families who are at the heart of it.”
“So many millions of men and women, from high-ranking officials to regular folks like us, making the moral choice of not giving in to the dark—but doing what was right, no matter what.”
Source: I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
“So many miracles have not yet happened.”
“So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander of legions, a master of rare talent or ability. Granted, there have been heroes who fit those descriptions. But many men of great evil as well. Heed me. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them." (Beyonders - A World Without Heroes)”
Source: Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy
“So many miseries have craz'd my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.”
“So many mistakes. So many bad choices. So many tragedies and hurts brought to innocent people with the best of intentions or with no intentions at all. It was so hard to be human. It was so hard to be alive.”
Source: An Unorthodox Match
“So many models have cool boyfriends.”
“So many moments of potential holiday joy got buried in the pain of our abuse. Now these days offer us a chance to give our inner child the gift of caring. Sometimes it's as simple as asking, "What do you want?" Most often the answer is a small thing.
Be a Santa to your wounded child and feel the healing passed forward to you.”
Source: Healing Insights: Effects of Abuse for Adults Abused as Children
“So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency”
“So many movies are so formulaic because you've got to get it done in an hour and a half. On a TV series, that's where the really interesting stuff can happen.”
“So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God's unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Koran has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Koran has a history too. The Sana'a fragments will help us do that.”
“So many Muslims would tell you that they felt like that you had to - you fold it into yourself because people were looking at you and recognizing you as being the culprit even though, look, I'm American. I don't believe that the teachings of Islam justified those actions.”
“so many names in this place not many of us left
living on the last we can find can you hear this”
Source: Falling Awake
“So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.”
Source: Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems
“So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.”
“So many nights I cried myself to sleep. Now that you love me, I love myself. I never thought I would say this. I never thought there'd be you.”
“So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.”
Source: The English Patient
“So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.”
“So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.”
Source: PS, I Love You: A Novel
“SO MANY of life's issues come because we tend to say YES too quickly... and we don't say NO soon enough.”
“So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.”
“So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.”
“So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.”
“So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?”
“So many of my friends are older, and the people I work with are older. I guess I've gotten used to hearing people say, "Oh, you're so young," even though I never really agreed with that. Now I get their perspective.”
“So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.”
“So many of my friends have always been women growing up... I always feel slightly more comfortable around women because with guys in general there's always more of a danger zone... it's very aggressive sometimes the way guys act with each other, putting each other down and calling each other names, so I was always too sensitive for that and used to hang out with the girls. And they were always really funny to me.”
“So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you?”
“So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.”
“So many of my memories are generated by and organized around food: what I ate, what people cooked, what I cooked, what I ordered in a restaurant. My mental palate is also inextricably intertwined with the verbal part of my brain. Food, words, memories all twist together, so it was the obvious way to structure my life. Each memory of food opened up an entire scene for me, it was the key that unlocked everything.”
“So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.”
“So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.”
“So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.”
Source: Journeys to England and Ireland