S Quotes
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“So much saintlike patience cannot be good for anyone.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“So much seafood was once dismissed as the debris of the sea: eels, snared from the Thames River in sixteenth-century England and tucked into pies in lieu of meat; clams, eaten by New England colonists only in times of desperation; oysters, offered all-you-can-eat for 6 cents at bars in nineteenth-century New York City; whelks, pickled and trundled by wheelbarrow through London streets, which in the mid-nineteenth century the British social reformer Henry Mayhew tallied “among the delicacies of the poor” and which housemaids wouldn’t eat in public, lest they be judged unladylike. Even lowlier were lobsters, scorned as indiscriminate bottom feeders, fobbed off on servants and put on prison menus, or else consigned to fertilizer. Their flesh and shells are still used in this way, as their high concentration of nitrogen and calcium helps plants grow.”
Source: The Best American Food Writing 2022: A Curated Collection of Mouthwatering and Comforting Culinary Articles
“So much socially useful, morally important work on behalf of communities and families is unpaid work. Voluntary work, elder care, unpaid household labour, being a mother--all these things are work--meaningful, purposeful activities contributing to the commonweal.”
Source: Motherhood: How Should We Care For Our Children?
“So much solitude and nobility give these places an unforgettable aspect.”
Source: The Myths of Sisphus and Other Essays
“So much stress! I am a victim of city lifestyle. Life is so good in villages." Playing victim like this is a mechanism of mind to get some relief.
"My sister-in-law doesn't respect me." This thought can cause so much stress to a village woman that she may go into depression and ultimately be 'possessed by ghosts.' Stress is equal in villages, if not more.”
“So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.”
“So much technology, so little talent.”
Source: Rainbow's End
“So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.”
“So much the better if no one can ever say with absolute certainty: There is Arsene Lupin! The essential point is that the public may be able to refer to my work and say, without fear of mistake: Arsene Lupin did that!”
Source: Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
“So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.”
Source: The Robe
“So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.”
Source: The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged)
“So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.”
Source: The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley
“So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“So much time and energy is wasted when we worry about the past. Every time we walk back into yesterday's yarn we get tangled up in its woolly story. We were not created by God with an extra set of eyes on the back of our head because God did not intend for us to keep looking backwards. Don't rehearse your reverse. The Apostle Paul got it right when he said, 'I press on'. Press on, beyond the past, into your tomorrow.”
Source: Blurry Daydream: When Faith Feels Like Make Believe
“So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.”
“So much time is spent on belief. So little time is spent on love!”
“So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.”
“So much time is wasted switching from one task to another. By batching repetitive tasks, once wasted time is recovered and can be used for other things. ”
“So much time spent believing
we had ghosts in our machines has accustomed us to haunting
ourselves.”
Source: Frozen to Life: A Personal Mortality Experiment
“So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.”
“So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucking-do-it attitude.”
Source: Misadventurous
“So much to say, yet no words would ever be enough.”
“So much to win, so much to lose,
No marvel that I fear to choose.”
“So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.”
“So much universe, and so little time.”
“So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.”
“So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of life's relentless urges slackened, replaced by this icy simplicity. This wasnt her death. It was his. That was the sad and honest truth. Though it would stay with her, it would be more like a black onyx heart on a silver chain, worn privately, under her clothes, close to her body, all her life. The guilt, the beauty, everything. It wasnt over, it had only begun. Well ok then, Okay.”
“So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was as simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing.
But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?”
Source: Rogues
“So much we don’t know. So much we will never know. And those moments we make the effort to harvest pearls of wisdom in our path are often the ones we look back on with enormous gratitude.”
“So much weariness in us that we feel the weight of our own bones, the void of our heart and the rattle of everything in that space of the brain.
Don’t let anyone fool you. Only love, can overpower this.”
“So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their employment patters and through their influence in the political arena, recognition of defined ethnic groups, seeking to link them to specific allocated roles in the labor-force, with different levels of real remuneration for their work. Ethnicity created a cultural crust which consolidated the patterns of semi-proletarian household structures.”
“So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.”
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“So much world all at once--how it rustles and bustles!
Moraines and morays and morasses and mussels,
the flame, the flamingo, the flounder, the feather--”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.”
“So much wrong could religion induce.”
“So, Mulder,' Colton spoke in a mocking tone. 'What do you think? Look like the work of Little Green Men?'
'Gray,' Mulder said seriously.
'What?' Colton asked.
'Gray,' Mulder explained. You said green men. A Reticulan's skin tone is gray. They're known for their extraction of human livers due to a lack of iron in the Reticulian Galaxy.'
Colton looked confused- as though he couldn't tell whether Mulder was joking. 'You can't be serious,' he said.
'Do you know how much liver and onions go for on Reticulum?' Mulder asked Colton.”
Source: Squeeze
“So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!”
Source: Thoughts
“So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind.”
Source: Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew
“So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!”
“So Musa was a simple god, a god of few words. His thick beard and strong arms made him seem like a giant who could have wrung the neck of any soldier in any ancient pharaoh's army. Which explains why, on the day when we learned of his death and the circumstances surrounding it, I didn't feel sad or angry at first; instead I felt disappointed and offended, as if someone had insulted me. My brother Musa was capable of parting the sea, and yet he died in insignificance, like a common bit player, on a beach that today has disappeared, close to the waves that should have made him famous forever.”
Source: The Meursault Investigation
“So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.”
“So musste es jeden Morgen zuerst lange hin und her schauen, bis es sich wieder besinnen konnte, wo es war, und jedes Mal fühlte es etwas auf seinem Herzen liegen, das es würgte und drückte, wenn es sah, dass es nicht daheim sei auf der Alp. (S. 248)”
Source: Heidi
“So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs”
“So must the artist do in working at the nude.”
“So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.”
Source: Poems ... Fifth edition, with several additions never before printed
“So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you’re going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That’s one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.”
“So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No," I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely." At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.”
“So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.”