S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“So men and women were born into workers
Because ideas like
Right and wrong
Get outweighed by need
Anytime you've got mouths to feed.”
Source: Remembrance Year
“So Merlyn sent you to me," said the badger, "to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you two things -- to dig, and love your home. These are the true end of philosophy.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“So Merrill Lynch has launched its first campaign in years to advertise the accomplishments of its investment banking business. The ads feature things like Merrill's recapitalization of Sierra Pacific. I guess including "helping Enron achieve its earnings goals in 1999" might be a little awkward given that Merrill Lynch bankers are currently on trial in Houston for that "accomplishment."”
“so merry is the sage
since mercy made thee
for the grave”
Source: Hot Pink Peach
“So Michele and Stefi's friends don't receive regular pocket monty, which is a very Anglo-Saxon, puritan thing, which its obsession with system and clarity, benefits and punishments, its perverse desire to have little children learn to manage given amounts of money over given periods of time.”
Source: An Italian Education
“So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.”
Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels
“So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!”
“So Miss Curdy said I had to be punished.
She gave me a choice of punishments. One: I could come into the gym after school every day and inflate all the basketballs — by mouth — until my head exploded.
Or two: I could coach the first-grade soccer team.
I chose number two.
The wrong choice.”
Source: The Haunted Mask II
“So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.”
Source: Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
“So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass pictures, tickling the skin. Even when Meggie nodded off she could still hear them, although Mo had closed the book long ago. Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. And not a single bad dream came over that wall for the rest of the night.”
“So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.”
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“So, Mom says, “sometimes you have to choose what kind of regret you can live with.”
Source: Finding Felicity
“So money doesn't matter once you get down it. It doesn't matter how thin or thick anyone's wallet is. We all hurt. We all love. We're the same. And your past, who you live with, where you came from, it doesn't have to matter. You're creating your own future, and I want to see where the road forward takes you.”
Source: The Goal
“So, money is good, and money is necessary, and money is that thing that tells you that what you're doing is not a fool's errand. But the money is also an albatross, changing your relationship to the art.”
Source: Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
“So money is not the answer to problems; wealth mentality is.”
Source: How Good Can It Get?: What I Learned from the Richest Man in the World
“So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.”
“so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.”
“So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.”
“So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.”
“So most of the time when we are confronted by more, rather than a few, choices we're often novices and so we don't really know how to differentiate these various options.”
“So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but we're here to help people.”
“So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.”
“So mothers have God's license to be missed.”
Source: Poetical works
“So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love.”
Source: The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber
“So, Mr. Jeffreys,” she inquired of the human bluebottle, “you went to the gym?”
Source: The Sacred Well Murders
“So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.”
“So much about being a woman who's had the good fortune to be offered some choices, and yet not good enough fortune to live in a world with gender equality, is about giving up some of what we want and making peace with not "having it all". Many women give up dreams and ideals as they patch together careers, marriage, children. My career-centrered path should not be read as a rejection of the domestic and care aspects of life.”
“So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control--what happens to our jobs, to the prices at the gas station, to the vote in the legislature. But somehow food still feels a little different. We can still decide, every day, what we're going to put into our bodies, what sort of food chain we want to participate in. We can, in other words, reject the industrial omelet on offer and decide to eat another.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.”
“So much about peace is learned in battle”
“So much alarmed that she is quite alarming”
Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose
“So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way.”
“So much anger in here. So much hate. So much to take out on someone.
This time it's going to count. She's adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, three hundred kilometers from land. She's alone. She has nothing to eat. It doesn't matter. None of it matters. She's alive; that alone gives her the upper hand.”
“So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.”
“So much as one person with a contrary spirit to God is enough to affect all the meetings - that the revival fire did not flow until that person broke and confessed, or the Lord removed him.”
“So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.”
Source: Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works
“So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.”
“So much beauty lies in creation. Those inherent attempts to express how we truly feel. Opening ourselves to the world, letting others in. Showing others that they are seen and acknowledged. A sense of belonging. A sense of being. There is nothing more important.”
Source: The Dream To End All Dreams
“So much beauty to behold.”
“So much better to travel than to arrive.”
“So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.”
“So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.”
“So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as we can. Ben & Jerry's was based on values, and we try to operate a business that not just sells ice cream but partners with all our stakeholders - whether that's suppliers or customers - to bring about a more sustainable world.”
“So much can be achieved when ideas are created
and people come together to bring them to life.”
“So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.”
Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
“So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.”
“So much can be learnt by observing motivations of our ancestors”
Source: Corporate Invisible Selling Behavioural Economics & More