S Quotes
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“So one way to create an attractive risk/reward situation is to limit downside risk severely by investing in situations that have a large margin of safety. The upside, while still difficult to quantify, will usually take care of itself. In other words, look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.”
Source: You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market P
“So, ‘order’ will mean "guards with spears, whom the nobles will bribe to harass unwanted commoners". ‘Beauty’ will mean "removing benches where people can sleep - and erecting statues in any open space, in which a large group could loiter, especially for the purpose of protests.”
Source: The Maid and the Crocodile
“So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.”
“So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings
“So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.”
Source: True Spirituality
“So our chess game begins tonight, Duchess. At eleven o’clock. I will give you one hour to try to win, blindfolded or no.” His teeth showed very white when he smiled. “And then I shall win.”
Jemma sniffed and turned up her nose. “Pride goeth before a fall, Duke.”
“You will fall before me,” he said, his smile a blatant challenge. “Backwards.”
Source: This Duchess of Mine
“So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.”
“So our ego has to be seen. It is to be watched in a witness state, how it works and how it tries to dissuade us from the right path of movement. One has to be only careful on that point because that is the last centre which has to be opened out. Once it is completely open, you are one with the Divine and all your problems will be solved because these problems are so frivolous and have no meaning.”
“So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.”
“So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?”
Source: Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection
“So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, our hearth and home, tight and burnished in the warmth of the sun—and then—these starships we are making out of Nix. We will send them to the stars, they will be like dandelion seeds, floating away on a breeze. Very beautiful. We will never see them again.”
Source: 2312
“So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.”
Source: Felix Holt, The Radical
“So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“So our own actions sometimes have undermined our safety, in our efforts to fight terrorism. The only way this can work is if we are aligned with liberals, with moderate Muslim forces. But if our war on terrorism is seen - as it is seen by many Muslims - as a war on Islam itself, it's very hard for us to have Muslim alliances, because America and the West have become so toxic.”
“So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.”
“So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.”
Source: The Adages of Erasmus
“So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.”
Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
“So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida
“So outside agriculture, in manufacturing and services, we must create a lot more jobs. But that also means that we must ensure that our systems of general education and technical education are in line with the job requirements that a more modern manufacturing and a more modern services sector would require.”
“So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.”
“So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.”
Source: Poems on Various Occasions: And Translations from Several Authors
“So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...”
“So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the troubling emotions I experienced. The obstacles we face in life can provide powerful incentives for change.”
“So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.”
Source: The little house treasury
“So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.”
“So parents, get your children's permission to watch!”
“So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”
“So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.”
“So part of you wanted to be kissing him and another part of you felt the intense worry that comes with being intimate with someone."
"Right, but I wasn't worried about intimacy. I was worried about microbial exchange."
"Well, your worry expressed itself as being about microbial exchange."
I just groaned at the therapy bullshit. She asked me if I'd taken my Ativan. I told her I hadn't brought it to Davis's house. And then she asked me if I was taking the Lexapro every day, and I was, like, not every day. The conversation devolved into her telling me that medication only works if you take it, and that I had to treat my health problem with consistency and care, and me trying to explain that there is something intensely weird and upsetting about the notion that you can only become yourself by ingesting a medication that changes your self.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.”
Source: The Adventures of Robin Hood
“So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')”
“So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre”
“So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour. Gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime, For soon comes age that will her pride deflower. Gather the rose of love whilst yet in time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime.”
“So Pat showed me a variety of exotic looks—from Russian princesses to Swedish maids. I looked at the images, slightly alarmed. There was no Lady Gaga to guide me.”
Source: The Princess Diarist
“So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher,
And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer”
“So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.”
Source: The Iliad ...
“So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.”
“So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the gap [in border security] that GAO has identified and recognize that there will be some costs to doing that? Or do we want to make sure that business isn't hampered and that people can move back and forth readily, and recognize that, if we don't put some barriers in place, we're going to wind up with dangerous people coming into the country?”
“So people keep asking me what this badge is for... this badge makes me the sheriff, the sheriff of Emo town, so get your straight irons and eyeliner ready!”
“So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.”
“So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.”
“so people really do tear out their hair and beat the ground with their fists”
Source: The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy
“So people that read the New York Times are not gonna have the slightest idea what really happened here. So not only are the Drive-Bys themselves a little dense and not curious and uninformed, so are all of their viewers and readers.”
“So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!”
“So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!”
“So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.”
“So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!”
“So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction, with your own hand to throttle down whatever ghostly life remains in you.”
Source: The Complete Stories
“So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh