S Quotes
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“So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.”
“So much of life is what you roll and where you land.”
“So much of life isn’t about having the right answer; it’s about knowing the right question.”
“So much of life, it seems to me, is the framing and naming of things. I had been so busy creating a future of love that I never identified the life I was living as the life of love, because up until then I had never felt entitled enough or free enough or, honestly, brave enough to embrace my own narrative. Ironically, I had gone ahead and created the life I secretly must have wanted, but it had to be covert and off the record. Chemo was burning away the wrapper and suddenly I was in my version of life. Thus began the ecstasy - the joy, the pure joy of a spiritual pirate who finds the secret treasure.”
Source: In the Body of the World
“So much of life’s hardship becomes more bearable when you are able to build and lean on a network of loyalty, support, and love, and gather around you people...who will stand by you and help you. But the thing is you have to let them in; you have to let them see the heartache, pain, and vulnerability, and not cloak those things in a shameful darkness,
and then you have to let those people who care about you help you.”
Source: The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
“So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.”
Source: We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel
“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”
“So much of life, so much of work, is luck.”
“So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.”
“So much of love is imagination -- its over-activity, its over-ambition, its over-the-top faith.”
Source: Little Heretic
“So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done. I'm interested in finding people who I think have a voice - and a very specific voice.”
“So much of managing society is keeping one's chin up... and disregarding the ignorant things people say.”
Source: Chain of Iron
“So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend”
“So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.”
“So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.”
Source: Tristram Shandy
“So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.”
“So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.”
“So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.”
Source: Full Tilt
“So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.”
“So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.”
“So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.”
“So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.”
“So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.”
“So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.”
“So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different; it’s important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.”
“So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist, you're attacking Yara. But because of "Black-ish" and this national audience we have, I get to have a larger or louder voice.”
“So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "What is that difference?" I started looking at the way that a figure in the foreground works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings and saw how much has to do with what the figure owns or possesses. I wanted to break away from that sense in which there's the house, the wife, and the cattle, all depicted in equal measure behind the sitter.”
“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.”
“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it." In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.”
“so much of nature as he is ignorant of,so much of his own mind does not yet posess”
“So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.”
Source: The Art of Fielding
“So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.”
“So much of our conversation about love is possessive. "You are mine. And if you stop being mine, I will hate you." And so exploring non-possessive ideas of love and friendship is important. Which is not to say we should just break down monogamy, I'm not taking a simplistic point of view. But, in addition to these examples of possessive love that we already have so much of, let us also explore what examples of non-possessive love and affection mean.”
“So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.”
“So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog.”
Source: This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
“So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.”
“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“So much of our future lies in preserving our past.”
“So much of our health begins in our mouth! The health of our gums and teeth is directly connected to our heart health and our immune health.”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“So much of our life is buried in the past, the good times we fondly remember. The longer I stay there, the cozier it gets. And rarely do I want to leave a place that feels like home.”
“So much of our life is the circling of a dream. The dream, a changeable elusive presence, is at the heart of our identity, it is the fabric to which all our qualities are stitched. Did it matter that the dream never found fruition in the physical world? The important thing was never to relinquish it. It’s the dream which keeps beauty as an animating source of strength in our lives, which reminds us we are connected to a larger reality.”
Source: Byron and Shelley
“So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.”
“So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.”
Source: Alms for Oblivion
“So much of our lives was determined with the luck of the dice. Where you were born. Who you were born to. Even if we managed to build an "equal society", these things would still remain unequal.”
Source: Irish Kiss
“So much of our pain comes from having never been allowed to grieve what we've lost.”
Source: Notes From Your Therapist
“So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we implement more controls, more testing, more "accountability," more rigor. We apply even more of those things, from security systems to control of students' behavior through pharmaceutical drugs. That's a situation in which doing is only making things worse. You may have to go through a phase of de-programming, letting go of old habits, coming to stillness, before you can even see what the pattern of action was, and what alternatives there might be.”
“So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in terms of money. Or, if not money, then, if you're in academia, it's prestige. It's a different kind of currency. And there's this unmeasured dimension of all jobs, which is whether it's improving the world.”
“So much of our surprise, our fear, and our vindictiveness when faced with a pest is a result of our own ignorance. When we see a coyote in the street, a rat in our trash can, or a squirrel in the attic, we are at a loss. When we don't know what to do, we feel helpless. Vulnerable. When we realize how helpless we are, shame follows immediately behind. We want the problem—and the animal causing our shame—to go away.”
Source: Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
“So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child.”