S Quotes
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“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
“Some ideas are too big to take in once, and completely.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Some ideas need to be continually reinvented and rediscovered, particularly an idea like the omnipotence of humans. It takes a long time to give up.”
“Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud!”
“Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.”
“Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.”
“Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.”
“Some idiotic things are well worth doing.”
Source: Independence Day
“Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen the results that I've been getting, then you understand where I'm coming from. Playing in a football game is like being in 30-40 car accidents. You can find yourself in awkward positions. That stuff takes its toll. But if you take advantage of health care, balance your body back out, put it back where its supposed to be, you function better, and you recover faster.”
“Some illness bloggers may be remembered for generations, their writings published as books or otherwise circulated after their deaths, but a great many more will be left as 404 messages and obsolete devices. Haunting is hard work.”
Source: Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
“Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.”
“Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure another set. Those that tell us that there is sin and sorrow and death in the world are terrible. But the other set - thou art holy, there is God, there is no pain - these are good, and help to break the bondage of the others. The highest imagination that can break all the links of the chain is that of the Personal God.”
Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India
“Some imagine hell as ugly terrain. But it's not the location that makes it damnation. Imagine being surrounded by the people you would least like to spend eternity with. That is hell. It's possibly on an ethereal plane.”
“Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.”
“Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.”
Source: Pleasures of Literature
“Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.”
“Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God. The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself. The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.”
“Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.”
“Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.”
Source: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
“Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.”
“Some in the West apparently believe that Poland no longer has its own interests, and that it is all too willing to agree with the opinions of others. This is absolutely not the case. Indeed, other countries in Europe uphold their own interests with great determination.”
“Some in the West suggest that Isam needs a separation of mosque and state. However, in the case of Iran at least what is needed is a separation lof religion and business.”
“Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.”
“Some in Westminster have talked about her receiving a state funeral when she dies, which seems a bizarre sort of tribute to someone who believed the state should do as little as possible. It would be far more appropriate to allow competitive bids from private companies to run the funeral arrangements. 'And we now go over live to Westminster, where state leaders are lining up for Lady Thatcher's funeral sponsored by McDonald's. And there we see the coffin respectfully borne on the shoulders of six part-time burger-flippers dressed in the official Ronald McDonald costume, before the private cremation when the body will be flame-grilled with gherkins and a slice of cheese.'
It's what she would have wanted.”
“Some incidents keep gnawing at you from the inside. They shatter the walls in your heart. But you must hold on to yourself in such moments. Life is so much more than these setbacks that we have to face in life!”
“Some incredibly short distances are actually millions of light-years apart”
“Some, indeed, conform to the strict notion that a myth is a story invented to make sense of some ritual whose significance has been forgotten, if indeed it has ever been fully understood.”
Source: The Greek Experience
“Some indeed have invented outrageous lies about the Turks in order to stir up us Germans against them, but there is no need for lies; the truth is all too great.”
Source: On War Against the Turk
“Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Some indigenous peoples feel that they share their identity with natural phenomena, and as a result they feel that by hurting the natural world they are hurting themselves. However, we feel that the natural world is "other" to us; we can't empathize with it, and so don't have any qualms about abusing it.”
Source: Spiritual Science: Why Science Needs Spirituality to Make Sense of the World
“Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more likely to survive and reproduce so their pattern of behaviour and thought will become dominant”
“Some individuals carry deep-seated wounds from traumatic pasts, manifesting in toxic behaviors that can destroy relationships. No matter how much support they receive, their unresolved pain can lead to argumentative, quarrelsome, and ungodly behavior. These individuals often struggle with multiple personality traits, delusions, and emotional instability. Before entering any relationship, they need profound healing to address their inner demons. Until then, engaging with them can be detrimental to one's own well-being. It's crucial to prioritize self-care and recognize when someone's toxic behavior is a sign of deeper issues that require professional help.”
“Some individuals consciously choose to underachieve, while others may unknowingly fall into patterns of underperformance, driven by deeper psychological factors.”
“Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“Some individuals have what can be considered to be an ‘abusive personality.’ Although they can be somewhat charming at times and sometimes manage to put on a false front in public when it is absolutely necessary, their basic personality is characterized by:
1. A need to dominate and control others
2. A tendency”
“Some individuals have what can be considered to be an ‘abusive personality.’ Although they can be somewhat charming at times and sometimes manage to put on a false front in public when it is absolutely necessary, their basic personality is characterized by:
1. A need to dominate and control others
2. A tendency to blame others for all their problems and to take all their frustrations out on other people.
3. Verbal abuse
4. Frequent emotional and sometimes physical outbursts, and
5. An overwhelming need to retaliate and hurt other for real and imagined slights or affronts
They insist on being ‘respected’ while giving no respect to others. Their needs are paramount, and they show a blatant disregard for the needs and feelings of others.
These people wreak havoc with the lives of nearly every person they come in contact with. They verbally abuse their coworkers or employees, they are insulting and obnoxious to service people, they constantly blame others when something goes wrong. When this type of person becomes intimately involved with a partner, there is absolutely nothing that partner can do to prevent abuse from occurring. Their only hope is to get as far away from the person as possible.”
“Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.”
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.”
“Some information I just keep to myself.”
“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It's a way of silencing critics and evading responsibility - for incompetence or worse. It generates an elite, a band of brothers in whom the national confidence can be reliably vested, unlike the great mass of citizenry on whose behalf the information is presumably made secret in the first place. With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with science.”
“Some injuries heal more quickly if you keep moving.”
Source: Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life
“Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.”
“Some inner organ would give way, her heart would literally break, if she did not see him soon.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.”
Source: The Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra
“Some insist on asking questions they don't want answered.”
“Some instances in life call for humility. But, sometimes you need to be flat-out brazen when it comes to the desires of your heart.”
“Some instantaneous connection had occurred between them. The very air in the room seemed to crackle with the awareness of it. A wave of heat suffused her body to centre between her legs, suddenly she felt breathless and hyper aware of him. There was no way this man could remain unaffected by the sheer magnitude of the invisible bonds that had just linked them irretrievably together. She wondered what he was thinking behind those beautiful navy blue eyes. Okay so she didn’t really expect him to open his mouth and spout poetry or declare his undying love but she certainly wasn’t prepared for his next words.
“You aren’t going to throw up are you? This is one of my favourite suits.”
Source: To Wrangle A Witch
“Some instincts are best left uncivilized”
Source: The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock