S Quotes
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“So many powerful, inspirational, insightful, hopeful and connected speeches today. It's been a joy to feel the energy of the women's marches all over the country and world. Feeling optimistic and energized.”
“So many prayers request catastrophe,
But God opts not to listen mercifully.”
Source: The Masnavi, Book Two
“So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.”
“So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“So many problems we will get to the bottom of later, but whose spatial aspect we must grasp right away. If the space of the industrial economy dominates the social space in which the Parisian worker or intellectual develops, to what extent could residential space, cultural space, or political space be planned without it being necessary to first intervene in economic structures?...In short...: to what extent can we freely build the framework for a social life in which we might be guided by our aspirations and not by our instincts?”
Source: The Situationists and the City: A Reader
“So many programs you watch on the sofa,
But the real program sit on top of your shoulders.”
“So many QBs throw the ball down the field, that's wrong. Watch Aaron Rodger throw it up the field”
“So many questions
but nothing to say,
in this current moment
we are still so far
from the answers.”
Source: Hope Between Heartbeats
“So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?”
Source: Sixth of the Dusk
“So many questions crowd my brain at once, it’s like one of the famous Portland fogs has swept up from the ocean and settled there, making it impossible to think normal, functional thoughts. We’re sitting on the floor of the living room, which is squashed up right next to the “dining room”, and I’m holding Jenny's workbook on my knees, reciting the problems to her, but my mind is on autopilot and my thoughts are a million miles away. Or rather, they’re exactly 3.4 miles away, down at the marshy edge of Back Cove.”
Source: Delirium
“So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?”
Source: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
“So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.”
“So many religions are there because so many people are unhappy. A happy person needs no religion; a happy person needs no temple, no church - because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church. The happy person has nothing like religious activity because his whole life is religious.”
“So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal.”
“So many rings, my fingers starting to hizzurt. If you didnt know me you did swear I had that wizzork.. and I am from Pittsburgh.”
“So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.”
“So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.”
“So many ruins bear witness to good intentions which went astray, good intentions unenlightened by any glimmer of wisdom. To bring religion to the people is a fine and necessary undertaking, but this is not a situation in which the proposed end can be said to justify the means. The further people have drifted from the truth, the greater is the temptation to water down the truth, glossing over its less palatable aspects and, in short, allowing a policy of compromise to become one of adulteration. In this way it is hoped that the common man – if he can be found – will be encouraged to find a small corner in his busy life for religion without having to change his ways or to grapple with disturbing thoughts. It is a forlorn hope. Standing, as it were, at the pavement’s edge with his tray of goods, the priest reduces the price until he is offering his wares for nothing: divine judgement is a myth, hell a wicked superstition, prayer less important than decent behaviour, and God himself dispensable in the last resort; and still the passers-by go their way, sorry over having to ignore such a nice man but with more important matters demanding their attention. And yet these matters with which they are most urgently concerned are, for so many of them, quicksands in which they feel themselves trapped. Had they been offered a real alternative, a rock firm-planted from the beginning of time, they might have been prepared to pay a high price.”
Source: King of the Castle: Choice and Responsibility in the Modern World
“So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.”
“So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.”
“So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.”
“So many ships. So many ideas within them. How do they do it, I wonder? How do they achieve harmony, knowing that false notions walk beside them?'
Toum said nothing.
Hiul brought more leaves to her mouth. 'I do not believe that they do. I believe they exist in chaos, each following their own ideas, each serving a clan of one.”
Source: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.”
“So many signatures for such a small heart.”
“So many silent battles are waged
By those who sit alone and wait, and by those who delay.”
Source: Dark Harbor
“So many sing out of tune and need a little help from their friends, but this may not suffice. Everyone should, thus, leave their ivory tower, now and then, and roll up their sleeves to help the sheeple to break the mold, those who have been doomed to remain unconstructed and unfit to experience revivifying awareness and gratifying conditions. (“Bread and Satellite”)”
“So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.”
“So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.”
“So many sit around, waiting for superman, when in fact, Wonder Woman lies within.”
“So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.”
“So many socks.
After the pair
the undertaker asks for
(I picture them black
beneath the fold
in your open casket,
your toes still cold)
what else to do,.
Body bags
of old suits, shirts
still pressed, long
johns, the unworn,
unwashed wreckage
of your closet, too many
coats to keep, though I will save
so many. How can I
give away the last
of your scent? And still,
father, you have errands,
errant dry cleaning to pick up--
yellow tags whose ghostly
carbon tells a story
where to look. One
place closed
for good, the tag old.
One place with none
of your clothes,
just stares as if no one
ever dies, as if you
are naked somewhere,
& I suppose you are.
Nothing here.
The last place knows exactly
what I mean, brings me shirts
hanging like a head.
Starched collars
your beard had worn.
One man saying sorry, older lady
in the back saying how funny
you were, how you joked
with her weekly. Sorry—
& a fellow black man hands
your clothes back for free,
don’t worry. I’ve learned death
has few kindnesses left.
Such is charity—so rare
& so rarely free—
that on the way back
to your emptying house
I weep. Then drive
everything, swaying,
straight to Goodwill—
open late—to live on
another body
& day.”
Source: Book of Hours: Poems
“So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!”
“so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions”
Source: The Untapped Wonderer In You: dare to do the undone
“So many stars had to align to bring you to me. More had to align to get a stubborn-ass grump to open his heart. But they did.”
Source: The Wrong Kind of Love
“So many stars I had counted and captured,
And for everyone else the sky gradually dimmed,
Happiness isn’t something you can cage like a bird,
It must be nurtured before it can fly on the wind”
Source: What Lies Beyond: And Other Poetry by Natalie Miller
“So many stars in the sky, each unique and full of destiny. I wanted more than anything to be part of those stars.
I never realized becoming one would destroy me.”
Source: All That Glitters
“So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.”
“So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It's always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld - he's great because he let everyone be hilarious.”
“So many state Republican governors and legislators are defunding Planned Parenthood and shutting down clinics that not only provide a safe abortion but HIV testing, cancer screenings, and so much else that women have every right to access, which is harder if you are unemployed or you are a low-income woman that's part of the real service that Planned Parenthood provides.”
“So many states are putting very stringent regulations on women that block them from exercising that choice to the extent that they are defunding Planned Parenthood, which, of course, provides all kinds of cancer screenings and other benefits for women in our country.”
“So many stories about the older generation have not been told that we think of them as women with no agency.”
Source: Miss Behave
“So many stories are determined before they start.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.”
“So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little.”
“So many sunrises and sunsets have to happen to achieve a certain hue or perspective that didn’t exist before. That we can hold in our hands or wear upon our breast as evidence of our own weathering, talismans of our survival.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“So many supposedly “religious” people are always eager to pass moral judgments, condemn others as sinners or give lectures about how to practice religion.”
Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons
“So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject.”
“So many television marriages -
that playing out of lives against a
background of the tube.
Instead of two lives filing the room,
There are their two lives and the eleven o'clock news with
Constant commercial interruption.
Instead of what you say and what I say.
You don't laugh with me;
I don't laugh with you.
All the wit comes pouring out of the tube.
And we laugh at it together.
The more we avoid talking
the more passive the relationship becomes.
Television permits us to walk through life
with minor speaking parts.
And the more we fail to speak,
the more difficult speaking becomes”
Source: Lovetalk: How to say what you mean to someone you love
“So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although Trump isn’t much of a businessman, he is rich enough to hire good tax attorneys who will hand over huge stacks of forms for him to sign blindly. That’s a helluva qualification for president, isn’t it?”
“So many things are hidden in you that, you need time to release them to the world”
Source: No One Is Better Than You