S Quotes
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“So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.”
Source: The Annals
“So obsessed is Dio with Cleopatra's vanity that he forgets she was also a skilled politician. She yields Pelusium, he asserts, as "She expected to gain not only forgiveness and the sovereignty over the Egyptians, but the empire of the Romans as well." Cleopatra could generally be counted on to do the intelligent thing. Dio has her engaged with the nonsensical. She was fighting for her life, her throne, and her children. She had ruled for two decades, and was without illusions. She knew Octavian was deeply enamored not with her but with her wealth. Into the mausoleum she heaped gems, jewelry, works of art, coffers of gold, royal robes, stores of cinnamon and frankincense, necessities to her, luxuries tot he rest of the world. With those riches went as well as a vast quantity of kindling. Were she to disappear, the treasure of Egypt would disappear with her. The thought was a torture to Octavian.”
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“So Occam's razor - Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward - leads me more to believe in God than in the multiverse, which seems quite a stretch of the imagination.”
“So odd a pair, she and he. A duet in code and electron. Age and youth and cynicism and hope.
He is quicker than her - more learned by far. But she. She is unafraid. Too young to know failure and the fear it brings. She takes him places he would not have explored by himself.
She is catalyst. She is chaos. I can see why he loves her.”
Source: Illuminae
“So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing?”
“So of course, I lean in and place a tender kiss on her forehead. The assembled crowd goes wild, and I chuckle. It doesn’t take much to excite them—they should see what we do in the bathroom at these”
Source: Nanny for the Enemy
“So of course that was the moment my motherboard decided to do a short internal scan, throw up its hands, and screech, “Dear Lawd, a VAMPIRE has taken mah blood!” and initiate a general shutdown.”
Source: Another One Bites The Dust: Book two in the Jaz Parks sequence
“So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.”
“So of the Flanders Moss. It, too, in mist seems to roll on for miles; its heathy surface turns to long waves that paly against the foot of the low range of hills, and beat upon Craigforth as if it were an island in the sea. Through wreathes of steam, the sullen Forth winds in and out between the peat hags, and when a slant of wind leaves it clear for an instant it looks mysterious and dark, as might a stream of quicksilver running down from a mine. When a fish leaps, the sound re-echoes like a bell, as it falls back into the water, and rings spread out till they are lost beneath the banks.”
Source: A Hatchment
“So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!”
Source: The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe
“So oft vom Augiasstall die Rede ist, [...]denke ich weit weniger an Hercules als an Alpheus. Ich frage mich dann: wie wenn dieser Fluß zufälligerweise nun nicht ein rasches und strömendes Waffer gewesen wäre, sondern ein träges und schleichendes? [...] auch Hercules hätte nichts ausgerichtet, wenn nicht die Wasserkraft, mit welcher er operirte, von einem starken Gefälle kam, ein paar Zoll weniger — und das Gefäll stagnirte, und der ganze Ruhm dieser Herculesarbeit war fort, und der ganze Augiasstall mit all seinem Miste blieb da! Es liegt eine peinliche Spannung in diesem Gedanken.”
Source: Feuilletons
“So oft war ich genervt von den spießigen Sicherheitsfreaks mit ihren Lebensversicherungen
und Aktien und To-do-Listen und Stundenplänen und
Zielvorgaben und Gewinnerwartungen, ihrem Effizienzstreben und den Aftershave-Dunstglocken. Bürotürme pfui, Palettenbars hui. Und jetzt, am anderen Ende der Skala bei den spontanen Freiheitsfreaks, bin ich mir nicht mehr sicher,
wo ich hingehöre. Ob ich die Ratten des Kapitals oder
die Ratten des Kanals schlimmer finde. Sie erscheinen mir beide wie die Pest.”
Source: Im Club der Zeitmillionäre
“So often a woman feels that she lives in an empty place where there is maybe just one cactus with one brilliant red flower on it, and then in every direction, 500 miles of nothing. But for the woman who will go 501 miles, there is something more.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.”
Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality
“So often as you set out to build the temple of peace you are left lonesome; you are left discouraged; you are left bewildered.
Well, that is the story of life. And the thing that makes me happy is that I can hear a voice crying through the vista of time, saying: "It may not come today or it may not come tomorrow, but it is well that it is within thine heart. It’s well that you are trying." You may not see it. The dream may not be fulfilled, but it’s just good that you have a desire to bring it into reality. It’s well that it’s in thine heart.
Thank God this morning that we do have hearts to put something meaningful in. Life is a continual story of shattered dreams.”
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we don't nip it in the bud, it will escalate and we will lose control. Let go of that unfounded fear and give your child permission to be human. We all have days like that. None of us are perfect, and we must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves. All of the punishments you could throw at them will not stamp out their humanity, for to err is human, and we all do it sometimes.”
Source: The Newbie's Guide to Positive Parenting
“So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.”
“So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ourselves before our food and entering into the still, slow space where eating is done for eating’s sake and not something we do simply to get to the next thing on our list.”
Source: Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
“So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.”
“So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as any body; andif a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for itI'll go to the world's end with him:MBut I hate disputes.”
“So often have I studied the views of Florence, that I was familiar with the city before I ever set foot within its walls; I found that I could thread my way through the streets without a guide. Turning to the left I passed before a bookseller's shop, where I bought a couple of descriptive surveys of the city (guide). Twice only was I forced to inquire my way of passers by, who answered me with politeness which was wholly French and with a most singular accent; and at last I found myself before the facade of Santa Croce.
Within, upon the right of the doorway, rises the tomb of Michelangelo; lo! There stands Canova's effigy of Alfieri; I needed no cicerone to recognise the features of the great Italian writer. Further still, I discovered the tomb of Machiavelli; while facing Michelangelo lies Galileo. What a race of men! And to these already named, Tuscany might further add Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch. What a fantastic gathering! The tide of emotion which overwhelmed me flowed so deep that it scarce was to be distinguished from religious awe. The mystic dimness which filled the church, its plain, timbered roof, its unfinished facade – all these things spoke volumes to my soul. Ah! Could I but forget...! A Friar moved silently towards me; and I, in the place of that sense of revulsion all but bordering on physical horror which usually possesses me in such circumstances, discovered in my heart a feeling which was almost friendship. Was not he likewise a Friar, Fra Bartolomeo di San Marco, that great painter who invented the art of chiaroscuro, and showed it to Raphael, and was the forefather of Correggio? I spoke to my tonsured acquaintance, and found in him an exquisite degree of politeness. Indeed, he was delighted to meet a Frenchman. I begged him to unlock for me the chapel in the north-east corner of the church, where are preserved the frescoes of Volterrano. He introduced me to the place, then left me to my own devices. There, seated upon the step of a folds tool, with my head thrown back to rest upon the desk, so that I might let my gaze dwell on the ceiling, I underwent, through the medium of Volterrano's Sybills, the profoundest experience of ecstasy that, as far as I am aware, I ever encountered through the painter's art. My soul, affected by the very notion of being in Florence, and by proximity of those great men whose tombs I had just beheld, was already in a state of trance. Absorbed in the contemplation of sublime beauty, I could perceive its very essence close at hand; I could, as it were, feel the stuff of it beneath my fingertips. I had attained to that supreme degree of sensibility where the divine intimations of art merge with the impassioned sensuality of emotion. As I emerged from the porch of Santa Croce, I was seized with a fierce palpitations of the heart (that same symptom which, in Berlin, is referred to as an attack of nerves); the well-spring of life was dried up within me, and I walked in constant fear of falling to the ground.
I sat down on one of the benches which line the piazza di Santa Croce; in my wallet, I discovered the following lines by Ugo Foscolo, which I re-read now with a great surge of pleasure; I could find no fault with such poetry; I desperately needed to hear the voice of a friend who shared my own emotion (…)”
Source: Rome, Naples et Florence
“So often human nature centers their ambitions on what was lost that they do not realize in their present moment just being there is like a fragile flower opening to the warmth of spring. Take heart and think of such warmth regardless of the current weather.
From Resiliency The Spirit With In”
“So often I had the private image of William and me as Hansel and Gretel. Two small kids lost in the woods, looking for the breadcrumbs that could lead us home. ... Being with Hansel, even if we were lost in the woods, made me feel safe.”
Source: Oh William!
“So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I've been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.”
“So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.”
“So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.”
Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves
“So often in life, the root cause of our pain is not the darkness that surrounds us, but our inability to use faith and hope to power through darkness to find joy and bliss waiting on the other side.”
“So often in my life I've been with people and shared beautiful moments like travelling or staying up all night and watching the sunrise, and I knew it was a special moment, but something was always wrong. I wished I'd been with someone else. I knew that what I was feeling - exactly what was so important to me - they didn't understand.”
“So often in our busy lives we either take for granted or fail to notice that it's the smallest things that mean the most to us and that the smaller we are, the bigger those little things appear!”
Source: Travels with Buster: A Journey of Unconditional Love
“So often in our earliest iterations of faith, we might categorize God as angry in the Old Testament and gracious in the New Testament. We can often drift toward binary terms, black and white, good or bad, angry or kind. But the more time we spend in God’s presence and understand His Word, a fuller, more robust picture emerges, and from faith to faith we go.”
Source: Your Name Is Daughter: What the Unsung Women of the Bible Teach Us about Our Worth
“So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.”
“So often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah. Try to fill your mind and heart with Allah as much as you can throughout your day. Talk to Him, make duaa to Him constantly. This will build your personal relationship with Him. Then, going to salah will be like coming home to an old friend.”
“So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.”
Source: Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
“So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.”
Source: A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
“So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.”
“So often our power lies not in ourselves, but in how we help others find their own strength.”
“So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus on the cross. Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity!”
“So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by kissing it and putting a Band-Aid on it, but not so with the pain of sexual abuse.”
Source: Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
“So often people equate good looks with good manners, and although it’s a foolish assumption to make, it’s always disappointing to meet a beautiful bastard.”
Source: Ravaged by the Rancher
“So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.”
“So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.”
“So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant, I was never baptized and had never been a member of any church. I joined the Roman Catholic Church after I had written my Mass To Hope!During the night I dreamt the entire Lord's Prayer with chorus and orchestra. I jumped out of bed and wrote down what I had heard as accurately as I could remember. Because of this event I decided that I might as well join the Catholic Church because someone somewhere was pulling me toward that end.”
“So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis”
“So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.”
“So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.”
“So often the experiences that define us are the ones we didn't pick. Cancer. Betrayal. Miscarriage. Job loss. Mental illness. A novel corona virus.”
Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.”
Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath
“So often the most meaningful moments in our lives are those that we share with our families. Treasured memories are created by celebrating, sharing and embracing the moments of life with the people we love.”
“So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.”