S Quotes
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“So, Rosalind became a symbol, first of an argumentative swot, then of a downtrodden woman scientist, and finally of a triumphant heroine in a man's world. She was none of these things and would have hated all of them. She was simply a very good scientist with an ambition, as she told Colin from her hospital bed, to be a Fellow of the Royal Society before she was 40. But she died at thirty-seven.”
Source: My Sister Rosalind Franklin
“So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?”
“So Roy's tears were understandable when he remembered tying animals to all those stakes. Such a cruel experiment had been performed on animals, of course, on sheep and pigs and cattle and horses and monkeys and ducks and chickens and geese, but surely not on a zoo such as Roy described. To hear him tell it, he had tethered peacocks and snow leopards and gorillas and crocodiles and albatrosses to the stakes. In his big brain, Bikini became the exact reverse of Noah's ark. Two of every sort of animal had been brought there in order to be atom-bombed.”
Source: Galápagos
“So, Royal Princess- excuse me, Sultana Jasmine- coming to admire your soon-to-be kingdom?" he said with a smile.
"Yes, I want to make some changes. I think it could use a few more lights," she said, finger to her chin in contemplation. "Torches there, there, and there. And maybe a different shade of white this time. More 'eggshell' or 'moon.' Less 'sand.'"
"Definitely less sand," Aladdin agreed.”
Source: A Whole New World
“So runs my dream, but what am I?
An infant crying in the night
An infant crying for the light
And with no language but a cry.”
Source: In Memoriam
“So runs this tale, like a stream into the sea, not to fade, but to change and to be free.”
Source: A Theory of Dreaming
“So Rwandan history is dangerous. Like all of history, it is a record of successive struggles for power, and to a very large extent power consists in the ability to make others inhabit your story of their reality - even, as is so often the case, when that story is written in their blood.”
Source: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
“So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!”
“So sad is this that nigh to all are ignorant to the pain and death caused by the hands of evil.”
Source: Broken
“So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?”
Source: The Kitchen God's Wife
“So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.”
“So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get enough to eat, and the men who did not work ate too much.”
Source: To Build a Fire and Other Stories
“So said that when a man falls he will not rise again?”
“So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——all its matter and forms of energy——arise out of thought.”
Source: Brother Odd
“So,” said Zia, “you’re gonna eat your way through the whole universe, top to bottom. And then what?”
Source: The Burning Dark
“So Sammy "the Bull" Gravano had falsely reported that DiB (Robert DiBernardo) was being subversive in order to get John Gotti to kill him, all so Gravano could take over the lucrative construction racket.”
Source: The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster
“So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world?”
Source: The Nightmare Charade
“So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.”
Source: Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version
“So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.”
“So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last”
“So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I could feel myself blushing. 'I can’t do that,' I said. 'Why not?' he asked. 'Is it so hard to believe? You think I’m not a good role-player?' 'No,' I said. 'It’s just–' 'Because I am. Everyone wanted me to be their mother in group.' I just looked at him. 'I just… It’s weird.' 'No, it’s hard. But not impossible. Just try it.' A week earlier, I hadn’t even known what color his eyes were. Now, we were family. At least temporarily.”
“So say the names of your heroes
and then say your name, too;
be inspired by the freedom fighters
who have come before
and the justice seeker inside of you.”
Source: Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
“So, say, when they're out in their little boats and they hear voices in the night, they forget whatever destination they had in mind and they go tearing straight towards the sound, screaming their heads off.”
“So saying, she managed to straighten- which left her facing the house, looking directly at the blank bow windows of the downstairs parlor. With the storm darkening the skies, the windows were reflective. They reflected the image of a man standing directly behind her.
With a gasp, Patience whirled. Her gaze collided with the man's- his eyes were hard, crystalline gray, pale in the weak light. They were focused, intently, on her, their expression one she couldn't fathom. He stood no more than three feet away, large, elegant and oddly forbidding. In the instant her brain registered those facts, Patience felt her heels sink, and sink- into the soft soil of the flower bed.
The edge crumbled beneath her feet.
Her eyes flew wide- her lips formed a helpless "Oh." Arms flailing, she started to topple back-
The man reacted so swiftly his movement was a blur- he gripped her upper arms and hauled her forward.
She landed against him, breast to chest, hips to hard thighs. The breath was knocked out of her, leaving her gasping, mentally as well as physically. Hard hands held her upright, long fingers iron shackles about her arms. His chest was a wall of rock against her breasts; the rest of his body, the long thighs that held them braced, felt as resilient as tensile steel.
She was helpless. Utterly, completely, and absolutely helpless.
Patience looked up and met the stranger's hooded gaze. As she watched, his grey eyes darkened. The expression they contained- intensely concentrated- sent a most peculiar thrill through her.
She blinked; her gaze fell- to the man's lips. Long, thin yet beautifully proportioned, they'd been sculpted with a view to fascination. They certainly fascinated her; she couldn't drag her gaze away. The mesmerizing contours shifted, almost imperceptibly softening; her own lips tingled. She swallowed, and dragged in a desperately needed breath.
Her breasts rose, shifting against the stranger's coat, pressing more definitely against his chest. Sensation streaked through her, from unexpectedly tight nipples all the way to her toes. She caught another breath and tensed- but couldn't stop the quiver that raced through her.
The stranger's lips thinned; the austere planes of his face hardened. His fingers tightened about her arms. To Patience's stunned amazement, he lifted her- easily- and carefully set her down two feet away.”
Source: A Rake's Vow
“So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.”
Source: Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man
“So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.”
“So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.”
“So scary watching the news...Like Iraq...could ever under any stretch of the imagination be any threat to us whatsoever.”
“So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors
“So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.”
“So scope it out, and don’t shout it out!”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“So Scotland is to be thought of as a country different from England... the reader and perhaps still more the spectator of Macbeth are made to envisage unmistakably a 'Caledonia stern and wild', a chilly and thinly-populated land of mountains and shaggy woods rather than ploughed fields, of barren moors and battlefields and grim fortresses rather than towns, villages and farms. The elements in this most atmospheric of plays accord with the wild setting and with the wild deeds occurring in it. The weather is unpredictable, more often than not stormy and boistrous... with dark nights or ominous half-light predominant over brief glimpses of the day and the sun.”
Source: Murder Under Trust, or The Topical Macbeth and other Jacobean Matters
“So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.”
“So secular humanism is not a religion in any sense, legal or otherwise, and neither is atheism. Religion must include a professed conviction, and mythical characters hardly counts as that. So atheism alone is no more a religion than health is a disease. One may as well argue over which brand of car pedestrians drive.”
Source: Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
“So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.”
“So self-assured were they all by nature that it never occurred to me to doubt that their perfection was predetermined by forces I did not understand. They were all royalty. They were all gods. They were all broken.”
Source: Even in Paradise
“So selfish. Chen Kaizong's first response upon hearing the elder's soliloquy was disgust.
He knew very well how people were exploited and oppressed. This was a common theme throughout history: take any group of people- it didn't matter if they were of different races or compatriots- some always set themselves apart as a higher class, and, in the name of gods, the nation, or 'progress,' made laws and constructed rules that allowed them to dominate the lives of the other classes, to own their bodies as well as their spirits.”
Source: Waste Tide
“So seltsam es scheinen mag, aber alle möglichen Probleme und Unglücke in dieser Welt kommen sehr oft von Menschen mit kleiner Statur; Sie haben einen viel streitsüchtigeren und energischeren Charakter als große Menschen.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“So, sensuality, the way I see it, has now become the developmental process of midlife ‘awakening’. Meaning that to really awaken to the life you were meant to live, you have to first awaken to your sensuality.”
“So serious was the suddenly and suspiciously sober poet, that she'd forgotten to forget Myrna's name.”
Source: How the Light Gets In
“So set your goals, know your worth, and hold on to the people who care about you. Those people can be your foundation when your life is shaky. They can be role models when you aren't sure how to act. They can be the family you choose when you miss the family you lost.”
“So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.”
“So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in stronds afar remote.”
Source: CliffsComplete King Henry IV
“So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreathe my head,
So shall I faint and show the scars,
Until this case, this clogging mould,
Be smithied all to kingly gold.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.”
Source: The Legend of Jubal: And Other Poems
“So shall it be! Dear-bought those songs shall be accounted, and yet shall be well-bought. For the price could be no other. Thus even as Eru spoke to us shall beauty not before conceived be brought into Eä, and evil yet be good to have been.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton
“So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.”
Source: Essays and Lectures