S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”
Source: Frankenstein
“So much has changed about the culture, it's so much more about money and celebrity. Celebrity not in the sense of people who achieve something, because in the old days, I think if you were famous it meant you were an achiever. Now it's the Kardashians.”
“So much has changed that I wonder if it will feel different when I read it again. If you're one person when you read a book, and then you change, does the book become different? Do the words stretch to fit the new version of who you are?”
Source: Property of the Rebel Librarian
“So much has happened in the past five years, I can't speak for the next five. What I want is to continue to grow. Because I am never satisfied; I always want more. I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step.”
“So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings. And that is a deep moral and spiritual issue, which can of course be backed up by Civil Rights Commissions which enforce the laws against any form of discrimination.”
“So much hate to go around, it's hard not to hate back. Much harder than learning to fight back.”
Source: Dance For The Land
“So much heavy beauty seems to come from another world.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.”
“So much history gets lost when a select a few choose what gets to be remembered”
“So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.”
“So much
human cruelty is simply
incidental is simply
brainless. Simply no
common sense. You could
take the entirety of the
common sense of humans
and put it in the palm of
your hand and still have
room for your dick.”
“So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.”
“So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.”
“So much in life came down to timing.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden
“So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.”
“So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment. We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.”
“So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.”
“So much in TV today, you don't get to feel empathetic for the villain. The villains are the villains and the heroes are the heroes. It's very black and white.”
“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.”
“So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.”
“So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?”
“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel
“So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.”
Source: The new peoplemaking
“So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.”
“So much is happening and yet nothing at all.”
Source: You Know Where to Find Me
“so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And more: you are also the doctor, who has to watch over himself. But in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait. And that is what you, insofar as you are your own doctor, must now do, more than
anything else.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vulnerable people as well.”
“So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.”
“So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.”
“So much is wrapped up in our work and each book of the Bible points to Christ and the good news of what he's done that impacts the whole of our lives and the whole of our world. When our eyes are opened to see how each book of the Bible points us to the gospel, the relevance to our work and the need for this good news to enter into our work becomes increasingly evident.”
“So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows.”
Source: Return of the Dapper Men
“So much it availed,
you coming to him at night; his destiny, tall in its cloak, stepped back
behind the cupboard, and his unquiet future, easily shifting,
fitted itself into the folds of the curtain.”
Source: Duino Elegies
“So much learning," one of my Jesuit teachers has said, "so little wisdom." To put it another way, a civilization does become more technologically skilled and more learned about science, and perhaps even a little smarter as well, when it is permitted to grow for hundreds of years and spread itself from pole to pole; but we also have more tools to turn out as badly as our ancestors said we might.”
Source: Ghosts of the Titanic
“So much leather inside my car my horn moos.”
“So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.”
“So much like the moon, we show the world only one and veil our many faces...even from the sun.”
“So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.”
Source: Rabbit Redux
“So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.”
“So much magic (....) , and nothing to mend a broken heart”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“So much magic lies beyond our fears.”
“So much might happen, and then only one set of things does.”
“So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.”
“So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.”
“so much more was said in the unsaid”
Source: soft thorns
“So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.”
“So.much needs to be done after a murder. So many boring, mundane details can't be skipped.”
“So much news about the president's assets, the president's broadsides, the president's teeth, the president's business dealings, the president's shoes: it got boring.”
Source: Betibú
“So much nonsense decreed from generation unto generation of what "should" be done, what was "right", how things should be. So much nonsense that determined each person's worth and where they were placed in the hierarchy of life. Who was the highest, who was lower than who, and who was at the bottom, where their very right to life was dictated by those above them.”
Source: A Mouth Full of Salt