S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Some knowledge comes not from curiosity, but from fear.”
Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story
“Some knowledge is poison for your soul.”
“Some knowledge is the poison for the soul”
“Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.”
Source: The Hiding Place
“Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.”
“Some knowledge of the diversity of Christian religious experience and a sympathetic awareness of of non-Christian religious experience can help directors transcend their personal absolutes and open them to a greater sense of wonder toward the manifold experience of people with God.”
Source: The Practice of Spiritual Direction
“Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority, launched a slick media campaign attaching the Nazi slur to the religious right.”
Source: Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson
“Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect to labor in the cause of salvation and if we go hence we expect to continue our work until the coming of the Son of Man. The only difference is, while we are here we are subject to pain and sorrow, while they on the other side are free from affliction of every kind.”
“Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.”
“Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.”
“Some ladies got the shower massager. Oh, man, you better buy her a diamond 'cause if she got a shower massager, she don't really need you anymore. That shower massager makes a woman shake like a car on bad gas going up a hill.”
“Some land surveyors delve into land development advocacy, working with local government on behalf of clients in order to facilitate progress on a project. Others stick to strictly surveying. The approach depends on the individual firm and the needs of the local area.”
“Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear.... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.”
Source: Thoughts
“Some languages shape conversations. Others shape history.”
Source: In English as in Russian: 1000 words with explanations - ПО-АНГЛИЙСКИ КАК ПО-РУССКИ: 1000 слов с пояснениями
“Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.”
“Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.”
“Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.”
“Some Laws were meant to be broken.”
Source: City of Glass
“Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.”
“Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.”
“Some lay the blame on their own stupidity. Their minds are blunt and dull. They cannot catch God's meaning, which would be clear to others. … Believe in the great love of God, and cast yourselves upon it, sure that He will come down to your ignorance, and suit Himself to your needs, and will “gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall *gently lead* those that are with young” [Isaiah 40:11].”
Source: The Secret of Guidance
“Some leaders are born women.”
“Some leaders believe that the caboose pulls the train.”
“Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we all need to feel we are contributing. Others can be heard shouting new priorities on an hourly basis. Both habits are very demotivating.”
“Some leaders of denominations are not of the Bride of Christ. They are leaders in a Church in which many have long since betrayed the Master. When they meet someone of the Underground Church, a martyr, they look at him strangely.”
Source: Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition
“Some leaders want to jump right to planning and fixing their issues, without understanding exactly what the problems are. Others want to skip the training phase since it means pulling people out of their jobs. The point is, each phase is important to enhancing culture and driving real change.”
“Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.”
“Some learners may grasp information quicker or more efficiently through visual or auditory means compared to printed text. Also, learning and transfer of learning occur when multiple representations are used, because these allow learners to make connections within, as well as between, concepts.”
Source: Making Online Learning Accessible: A Making Work Accessible Handbook
“Some learning and talent professionals, together with some organisations, are finding it a challenge to make changes from these age-old HR and learning practices. However, it is inevitable that they will need to adopt new ways of learning to support new ways of working sooner rather than later.”
“Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”
Source: Howards End: England Literature
“Some legends say that Hera's breast milk sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way. I don't know. That seems like a whole lot of solar systems from just one squirt”
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
“Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay.”
“Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.”
Source: A House For Mr Biswas: Picador Classic
“Some lessons are best taught, not by others’ scars, but by our own wounds.”
“Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.”
“Some lessons are only found at the mountaintop. You have no choice but to climb that mountain against all odds.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”
“Some letters R - S - T - U whilst following the Q.”
Source: running is flying intermittently
“Some letters remain unsent.
Some songs remain unsung.
Some poems stay unfinished.
Some stories stay unwritten.
Some words remain unsaid.
And that's just the way it is.”
“Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.”
Source: Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
“Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.”
“Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist and to be an activist. They've criticized a nominee who has, from what I see described by these lawyers and fellow judges, a reputation of being a restrained jurist committed to the rule of law and the Constitution.”
“Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern whether they say this for tactical reasons, so as not to be compromised politically or whether they are really convinced that Marxism doesn't influence them in any way. I personally think that it is not possible to evade the influence of Marxism, as we cannot commit ourselves to the revolutionary struggle without drawing support from the conclusions of scientific socialism.”
“Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.”
“Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.”
“Some lies are like life jackets; you put them on hurriedly only when you're about to drown.”
“Some lies are like lifejackets; you quickly put them on when you’re about to drown.”
“Some lies are more useful than, or useful unlike, some facts.”
“Some lies are told in order to present yourself in a more interesting or more favourable light; others are told to deceive people. Lies can hurt, but they can also save your skin. Regardless of why they are told, however, lies most often lead to regret.”
Source: Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Tales from the Café / Before Your Memory Fades