S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“So much can change from one day to the next, but the one thing that always remains the same is God. Stay focused on Him. In God We Trust.”
“So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken assumptions about God, morality, and science that they don't know they believe. In Three Theological Mistakes, Ric Machuga, with clarity and grace, explains the genesis of these mistakes and provides the intellectual tools by which we can recover from them.”
“So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.”
“So much contempt for your own species."
"Yes, contempt! If you had seen what I have seen, watched what a human may become when left alone in the dark, you would share it. You were lucky, Jaghatai. Your world was no Caliban. We tell you of Old Night and you barely believe us, but that is not how most places were. The lie is noble. It is there to protect, to guard, not to deceive, for they are not ready."
I have heard this before. There were empires on my homeworld that offered freedom to their slave castes, but only when they were ready. That moment, strangely enough, never came. In the end, they had to take it for themselves, to die for it, and even then there were some who said the day had come too soon. The truth will come out. You won't be able to hold the blindfold in place, and once it slips, the fury of those you deceived will be limitless.”
Source: Jaghatai Khan: Warhawk of Chogoris
“So much could go wrong on a date. What if he turns out to be a jerk? [You need] A back-up plan, just in case he doesn't work out, you can move on to the back-up plan.”
“So much death! What can med do against such reckless hate?”
“so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow”
“So much depends, of course, on what the individual hears when he gives himself over to the electronic tides breaking on the shore of his Seashell. The voice of conscience and reason? An echo of morality? A new thought? A fresh idea? A morsel of philosophy? Or bias, hatred, fear, prejudice, nightmare, lies, half-truths, and suspicions? Or, perhaps even worse, the sound of one emptiness striking hollowly against yet another and another emptiness, broken at two-minute intervals by a jolly commercial, preferably in rhymed quatrains or couplets?”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted.”
“So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.”
Source: Love That Dog
“so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.”
“So much depends upon our willingness to make up our minds, collectively and individually, that present levels of performance are not acceptable, either to ourselves or to the Lord. In saying that, I am not calling for flashy, temporary differences in our performance levels, but a quiet resolve to do a better job, to lengthen our stride.”
Source: Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball
“So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.”
“So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.”
“So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men”
“So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'”
Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct
“So much drama off and online...
Be kind and respect others.
Follow the golden rule. Always.
Don't step on others.
Chase your dreams the right way.
Keep your head up.
Then, everything else will take care of itself.”
“So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.”
“So much easier to say, 'The devil made him do it,' than to face up to something much more horrifying: somebody, a person just like you, decided to do evil. And enjoys it.”
Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
“So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.”
“So much emotion goes into writing fiction.”
“So much energy comes out of concerts sometimes, especially good ones that are really moving. And that energy, no matter how great the show is, it dissipates within two weeks or a month.”
“So much for a great opening speech, that sucker done tucked tail and is hiding in the deepest part of my brain, sucking its thumb.”
Source: Deep in the Hollow
“So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.”
Source: Good Bones and Simple Murders
“So much for fearing a shy, paralyzed virgin; she might be innocent, but Eliza had pressed against him and kissed him back until he completely forgot that he was pursuing her because of her father's manipulations.
That thought cooled his blood somewhat. Edward Cross wanted him to court and marry his daughter, didn't he? Hugh smiled grimly. Cross was about to get exactly what he wanted.
And so was he. Not only Cross's money, but Eliza herself.”
Source: An Earl Like You
“So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.”
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“So much for keeping things business when it came to Jenna Darrow. If this had been a test, he figured he’d just failed it with flying colors.”
“So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.”
“So much for my one and done strategy. Guess I’ll be here for a while. It could be worse. It could be a fat old man I’m having to guard instead of a cute teenage girl.”
Source: Just A Touch
“So much for Obama's promise of 'quality, affordable health care.'”
“So much for playing nice.Tired, I let my eyes shut while they argued, hoping I didn’t die in the interim and make the problem moot. I wasn’t ever going to get my water. Ever.”
“So much for the bimbo alert; if she read books like that, then there was a light on upstairs, above the splendid front porch.”
Source: Tanzi's Heat
“So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.”
“So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.”
Source: Mischief: Fay Weldon Selects Her Best Short Stories
“So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.”
Source: School Education
“So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.”
“So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.”
“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.”
“So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“So much growth can come in discord. The pain we walk through can become a catalyst to push us toward God.”
Source: The Seven Deadly Friendships: How to Heal When Painful Relationships Eat Away at Your Joy
“So much had become so connected to him
that it seemed to belong to him, so that now,
flying, for hours, above the Atlantic
still felt like being over his realm.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it safely to the walkway and gone our separate ways to classes. How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if i fell, at least i wouldn't do it alone.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in the clutch, Tom Matchick's home run to beat Baltimore in the ninth inning, then Daryl Patterson striking out the side to beat them in the ninth. Excitement every day in the ballpark.”
“So much happened so quickly, so much to remember forever, so much to haunt the corridors of memory. Life moves along strange paths. We are only to such a limited degree the pilot of our soul, the captain of our ship (p. 164)”
“So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.”
“So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.”
“So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.”
Source: Lanterns & Lances
“So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.”