S Quotes
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“Some intelligence officers filed reports saying that this is a dangerous group, but at one level it was not forwarded, it was just ignored.”
“Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.”
“Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.”
“Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.”
“Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube.”
“Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.”
“Some interviewers aren't even interested. They're just doing it because they gotta do it. Life is nothing without passion. Whatever you're doing, at least be passionate about it because I'm passionate about what I'm doing. I'm passionate about the words I'm saying right now. Just be passionate. When the interviews is passionate, it's more conversational and we're not covering the same ground.”
“Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.”
“Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.”
“Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met a gentlemen who is helping to protect wildlife in Iran. It's good that many of them don't forget about their country. It's important.”
“Some irony. The girl who couldn't face her own bullshit . . . suddenly forcing everyone else to.”
Source: Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 2: Come Join Us
“Some is better than none. Anything would be better than this.”
Source: In Limbo
“Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger)”
“Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.”
“Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.”
Source: Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It
“Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.”
“Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away.”
“Some Israeli politicians have proposed the transfer of Palestinians out of what is currently called Israel, either into the occupied territories, into Jordan or out into other Arab lands, with the idea that there would be no intermixing of Palestinian and Jewish Israelis or Palestinian and Jewish communities. But the idea of an absolute segregation is one that I find lamentable.”
“Some issues are only huge if ignored.”
Source: Three Fallen Women
“Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.”
“Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.”
“Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.”
“Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.”
“Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.”
“Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you. Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.”
Source: The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
“Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.”
“Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.”
“Some jobs are not hard to get.
It is just that you do not have enough money or guts to pay for it, in cash or in kind.”
Source: Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions
“Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them.”
“Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.”
Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig
“Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.”
“Some jobs require a more consistent challenge to moral courage than others. Politics is one. In such a setting terrifically good men and women will still be found wanting occasionally. No one does the right thing all the time. It would be more generous and fair to consider their batting average than to judge them only by their last worst act.”
“Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done.”
Source: Something About You
“Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.”
“some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.”
“Some journalists just get too wrapped up in daily news cycles and tempests in a teapot that are not going to make any difference. As someone who is older and has been through a few election cycles, maybe this is just being an old fogey, but I think I know what's going to really matter and what's not.”
“Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need”
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
“Some journeys are meant to be taken alone.”
“Some journeys begin with loss… but lead to courage, faith, and hope.”
— The Journey West: Leaving Dixfield”
Source: The Journey West: Leaving Dixfield: A Clean, Heartfelt Children’s Historical Fiction, Told Through the Eyes of Janus Fletcher, Based on a True 1865 Pioneer Journey.
“Some journeys can only be traveled alone.”
“Some journeys have to be undertaken alone in Life. Such is Life. When you accept this truth and choose to be non-complaining, you will be happy and content, no matter how dark it gets or how lonely you feel.”
“Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.”
“Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free”
“Some journeys make you realize that you are running for a wrong goal.”
“Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.”
“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”
Source: Sourtoe Cocktail Club: The Yukon Odyssey of a Father and Son in Search of a Mummified Human Toe ... and Everything Else
“Some journeys, we must take alone. The caterpillar does not judge itself for craving the cocoon. Do not fear the isolated path. There, you will not be lonely. You will meet yourself.”
“Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks
“Some jump down off the bridges, some sail towards the horizon…
Meaning is always under construction.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Some jump down off the bridges, some sail towards the horizon…
Our meaning is always under construction.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.