S Quotes
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“So, why do we do it?” I decided at least to try and give the appearance of being in control.
“I don’t know, I swear some of you English men use it to seek me out and be obsessive on my front doorstep. What do you think? Are you going to come knocking on my door?”
“Well, I don’t know. I mean about the assumptions and the bullshit, not the door.” I thought it needed stressing, but immediately realised it was part of her game. “Perhaps it’s some kind of safety thing. If a stranger starts talking to you in the street, you have little by which to judge your safety. Here in a hotel lobby you have some sanctuary, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe. Not every hotel guest is in a foreign land, and I am sure not every Colombian is going to rob you, but I don’t know.”
“It is prejudice, if you ask me,” she spat distastefully.”
Source: The Heart Worm
“So why do we insist
He has vanished, that death ran off with our
Everything worth having? Why not that he was
Swimming only through this life--his slow,
Graceful crawl, shoulders rippling,
Legs slicing away at the waves, gliding
Further into what life itself denies?
He is only gone so far as we can tell. Though
When I try, I see the white cloud of his hair
In the distance like an eternity.”
Source: Life on Mars: Poems
“So, why do you really want to be back in the Real World?” he asked.
“Because I prefer Reality over a blissful or a painful delusion,” Dorothy replied.”
Source: Tomiétrèla
“So why does Tesla stand out in the field? They can point to the advantage of a "bigger" Big E. Their product line's end use has benefits, and they are not shy about talking about it. There is something here for your organization as well. Ask yourself what the impacts of the actual use of your product or service are versus alternatives, and you are well on your way.”
Source: The Purpose-Driven Marketing Handbook: How to Discover Your Impact and Communicate Your Business Sustainability Story to Grow Sales, Retain Talent, and Attract Investors
“So why does the National Chicken Council feel it's important that Americans eat chickens who are infected with cancer?”
“So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required - we could party our way into extinction!”
Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
“So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“So why don't you tell him you're sorry?" Gaby suggested. "Uh... because he probably never wants to speak to me again?" "How do you know? Do you have a fifth sense too?" Scarlett sighed. "No. And I think that's sixth sense." "No, I don't see dead people. It's different.”
“So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.”
“So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?”
Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most
“So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?”
“So why not a woman, too—if I was dating her?”
Source: Feeling Lucky
“So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy”
Source: When We Were Orphans
“So why not make it better? If we want to see goodness in our lives, we should make it happen. If I can bring just a little help to someone's life, even for a moment, it's better than doing nothing at all.”
Source: The Memory of Lost Dreams
“So why should anyone judge you for your thoughts? For your feelings? Feelings of love, not resentment and anger. Yes, some would judge you, but to the devil with them. Don't ever hate yourself for loving.”
Source: Semper Fi
“So why the hell am I letting him kiss me? And why the bloody hell am I kissing him back?”
Source: Bratva Connection: Maxim
“So why the hell do you want me to duck under a fucking ticket counter and hide while you turn into a cowboy on me all of a sudden? Why now, when it really counts?” - Lily Hunt”
Source: Circle of Light
“So why the sudden girlspeak, Urian? Neither one of us is really into discussing our feelings…and no offense, I like the fact we don’t. (Acheron) I do too most times and I’m truly grateful you don’t pry, but as a man who defied everything he once valued in this world and one who sacrificed the love of a father he worshiped…even though it ended badly, the days I had with Phoebe were worth every wound I’ve suffered. (Urian)”
“So, why the traffic stop when the officer admits that the driver did nothing wrong? To this impartial observer, those facts suggest Mr. Hayes was pulled over for driving while black and the shooting was the worst result of a bad stop.”
Source: Betrayal In Black
“So why was he doing this? Doing what? He wasn't doing anything! But if he wasn't doing anything, why did he feel so guilty about not doing it?”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“So why was he feeling like this? Why was he feeling like some promise the universe made had been broken?”
Source: Red at the Bone
“So why was Kim Kardashian famous? Because she was very good at marketing herself, that was all - and today, that was enough. Corporations are now people and people are now products, known as "brands". At a time when the 1 percent was getting richer, the 99 percent was suddenly trying to Keep up with the Kardashians.”
Source: The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World
“So why were we all summoned here today?” Jacob asked. “Is there a murder mystery involved? Someone in this restaurant is the killer? I’m guessing it was the chef, in the kitchen, with the sausage gravy. Did the victim die of rapid-onset heart disease?”
Source: Terminal
“So, why were you trying to flirt with that asshole at the boardwalk?”
My jaw drops. I’ve got to be hearing things. I—
“Wow, there,” Ruby says. “That’s a new form of distraction I haven’t heard before. I like that. I thought you two were a couple by the way you look at each other but—”
I panic-stare at her and she snorts, “Never mind, you do you, keep talking.”
I stammer. “It…it was…”
Jack says, maybe to Ruby or maybe to himself, “Ellie’s not usually like this, for sure.”
“How would you know what I’m like?” My cheeks flush, and I barely notice Ruby lining up the needle. People love to label me. What about what I want to label myself? Especially Jack—he’s pretended not to know me for so long.
Jack grins. “Well, we’ll have to debate later on that.”
“No, we won’t!” There’s no way I’m going to let him ignore me. I’m going to throttle him as soon as—
“You’re all done.” Ruby places a mirror in front of me. “What do you think?”
Already? I turn my head to look; my skin’s a little pink, but there it is—the star-shaped silver piercing is on my right ear, at the exact spot I’d chosen. I breathe out in surprise, giving it the label I want. “It’s perfect.”
Jack smiles smugly, standing up from the stool. “And I was the perfect distraction.”
I’ll ignore that.”
Source: The Charmed List
“So why would I want someone to be my everything when one day they might not be around?" Jellicoe Road”
“So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.”
“So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.”
“So why you pushin' it? Why you lyin' for? I know where you live,
I know your folks, you was a sucka as a kid.
Your persona's drama that you acquired in high school in actin' class,
Your whole aura is plexiglass.
What's-her-face told me you shot this kid last week in the park;
That's a lie, you was in church with your moms.”
“So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?”
“So wie das Sonnenglas das Herz der Sonne widerspiegelt, so spiegelt das kontemplative Herz die göttlichen Eigenschaften.”
Source: Gayan - Vadan - Nirtan: die Essenz der Sufi-Botschaft von Hazrat Inayat Khan
“So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)”
“So wie ein Mensch, dessen Haare in Flammen stehen, augenblicklich in den nächstbesten Teich springen wird, um die Flammen zu löschen, so beeilt sich ein qualifizierter Schüler, der von den täuschenden Flammen der Dualität verbrannt wurde (samsara), einem kompetenten Lehrer zu dienen, der, weil er sein angeborenes, ewig freies Selbst entdeckt hat, in ungestörter Gelassenheit ruht. (Vedanta-sara 1.30)”
Source: Yoga der Liebe: Naradas Bhakti Sutra aus der Perspektive des Vedanta
“So wie ein Mond nicht allein leuchtet, sondern unzählige Sterne um sich herum braucht, so müssen Menschen manchmal erst zum Leuchten gebracht werden, um dann für andere strahlen zu können.”
“So wie Liebende, gefangen in der Agonie der Orgasmen, nicht mehr wissen, welcher Körper wem gehört, so sieht der bhakta keinen Unterschied mehr zwischen seinem Körper und dem Körper Gottes. Alle Dualität verschwindet und es bleibt nichts zurück als der süße Nektar ewiger Glückseligkeit. (S. 209)”
Source: Yoga der Liebe: Naradas Bhakti Sutra aus der Perspektive des Vedanta
“So wie man auf verschiedene Arten liebt, so ist auch der Schmerz bei diesem Verlust ein anderer.
(Loreen)”
Source: Essenz der Götter I
“So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.”
Source: Letters, Conversations and Recollections
“So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.”
“So, will you LEAP?!!! Once you have leapt, there’s no way back. It’s a one-time leap. It will define the rest of your life. You must absolutely commit. There can be no half-measures and no half-heartedness. It’s all or nothing. Kierkegaard certainly got that right. The leap must be a transformative event, alchemical, transmutative. Remember Neo in The Matrix. He had to master the “Jump Program” and leap from one skyscraper to another across an impossibly wide gap. If you’re going to make that leap, if you’re going to succeed, you must be SURE. Doubt is fatal. If you choke, you die. When invading armies landed on foreign soil, they often burned their fleet so that there could be no retreat. It was win or perish. That’s how it must be. To leap or not to leap – that is the question. What leap shall it be? – faith, the senses or reason. Choose!”
Source: The God Equation
“So? Will you marry me?"
Scarlet started to smile.
"Wait. Before you answer that," said thorn, gesturing around the room, "i think you should know that the store we got all this stuff doesn't except returns."
Casting her gaze skywards, Scarlet said, "Well in that case. Yes. Yes of course i will.”
Source: Stars Above
“So will you marry me?"
"wait" said Thorn
"Before you answer that, I think you should know that the store we bought all this from, doesn't except returns."
"Oh well in that case, of course ill marry you!”
Source: Stars Above
“So will you meet me?” “Yeah. Sure. Where.” “Montrag’s safe house in Connecticut. If you were the one who killed him, you know the address.”
Source: Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“So willing — eager, almost — to shed our rich culture for the cheap thrill of being seen as American. Thinking that if one day they accumulated enough stuff, if they learned to act the right way, they could be seen as the same. And because of course, white America will never see them as equal, they die owning lots of things, but having lost themselves.”
Source: Olga Dies Dreaming
“So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.”
Source: The Rambler
“So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
“So wise souls, leaving self behind
move forward,
and setting self aside
stay centered.
Why let the self go?
To keep what the soul needs.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.”
“So, with a ready heart I swore
To seek their altar-stone no more;
And gave my spirit to adore
Thee, ever-present, phantom thing
My slave, my comrade, my king”
Source: Selected poems
“So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn’t have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.”
“So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.”