S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Some men were handsome. Some were powerful. Curran was...dangerous.”
Source: Magic Slays
“Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed”
“Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.”
Source: The Russia House
“Some men will sell a woman dreams...until she realizes that he will never close on that love transaction because a relationship is merely HER dream, heavily laden with good sex. In the getting to know you process, he figured out how to market her dream back to her in a beautifully wrapped empty box; topped off with a pretty bow.”
“Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly.”
“Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop.”
“Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Some men would do better to stay poor,” Francesca said. “ Money only exaggerates their vulgarities.”
Source: Pray for a Brave Heart
“Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex.”
“Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.”
Source: Wade a little deeper, dear: a woman's guide to fly fishing
“Some men would want to hold you like the answer. You are not the answer.”
Source: The Type
“Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers.”
Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
“Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless, almost as if they couldn't look away. "They remind you of something good--picnics or carrying sparklers around at night. Southern men will hold doors open for you, they'll hold you after you yell at them, and they'll hold on to their pride no matter what. Be careful what they tell you, though. They have a way of making you believe anything, because they say it that way.”
“Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.”
“Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls”
“Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.”
“Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.”
“Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.”
“Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.”
“Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.”
“Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author
“Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Some mental healthcare workers are aware of clients with high needs, such as dissociative disorders and personality disorders, who have histories of sexual abuse (contact offences), usually from early childhood, involving two or more adults acting together and multiple child victims (Gold et al., 1996; McClellan et al., 1995; Middleton & Butler, 1998). This has been defined as “organised abuse” (Bibby, 1996; La Fontaine, 1993). Excluded from this definition are
cases where a child is sexually abused by multiple perpetrators who are unaware of one another, such as survival sex amongst homeless youths, or where abuse is limited to a single household or family and there are no extra-familial victims (La Fontaine, 1993).
Organised abuse: A neglected category of sexual abuse.
Journal of Mental Health, 2012; 21(5): 499–508”
“Some mentors are a window to success. Other mentors are a door. Let people get to where they want to go through you as a window...without blocking their way with a closed door ego.”
“Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.”
“Some might argue that a diamond is the earths hardest carbon based substance. However, I'd challenge that with the resolve, resilience, and tenacity of a committed carbon based Noncommissioned Officer.”
“some might be surprised to see us say that reincarnation is an exclusively modern idea. Too many confusions and misconceptions have been going on for a century so that many people, even outside "neo-spiritualist" circles, are not seriously affected by them; this distortion has even reached such a point that official orientalists, for example, routinely interpret in a reincarnationist sense texts where there is no such thing, and that they have become completely incapable of understanding them in any other way. is to say that they understand absolutely nothing.”
Source: The Spiritist Fallacy
“Some might call me a “tease”, but don’t believe it. “Tease” implies that I owe him something, that I should feel guilty. As if my flirtation is forced on him and he merely tolerates it for an eventual pay-out. That’s bullshit. We both have goals in our little game; why should his goal (sex) take priority over mine (to mess with his head)? Is it because he’s a man?
In that case I must object on principle. Superhero Meda establishing gender-equality one almost-kiss at a time!”
Source: Crushed
“Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying”
Source: Pearls Before Swine
“Some might debate whether people are born with talent, or whether it is developed. Toyota’s stand is clear—give us the seeds of talent and we will plant them, tend the soil, water and nurture the seedlings, and eventually harvest the fruits of our labor... Of course the wise farmer selects only the best seeds, but even with careful selection there is no guarantee that the seeds will grow, or that the fruits they yield will be sweet, and yet the effort must be made because it provides the best chance of developing a strong crop.”
Source: Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way
“Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it again with exactly the same conditions--that it is, in fact, impossible. Locally, you might get the conditions exactly the same, but you have to embed the experiment in the universe, and that has moved on. You can't rewind the wave function of the universe and rerun it. The universe is a one-time-only experiment that includes us as part of its wave function, and there's no going back.”
Source: The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
“Some might regard such a circumstance as a suffering of a punishment. But the one who dares to live with suffering through to its completion will discover that it is actually a great gift. Some people are difficult to live with, difficult to love. Sometimes the old or the new or the genetically defective can be a trial. But instead of routinely putting them in nursing homes or institutions - or killing them before they can be born - what if we were to live with them? What if, when our love is exhausted, we were to ask God to give us His love for them? Eventually we will discover the blessing they can be. And who knows, perhaps in the process we will become more what He intended us to be - which may have been part of His purpose.”
Source: Pilgrimage
“Some might say it was lack of love –I would say it was out of love.”
Source: Walk Away
“Some might say; loving is worse than hating, yet leaving is the worst.”
“Some might say that abundance is not what you hold in your hand, but what you have in your heart. And I would say that abundance is giving away what you have in your heart so that neither hold anything.”
“Some might say that attempting to gain everything is the best way to lose everything. To the contrary, I would argue that if I’ve spent my life trying to gain everything, I never had anything to lose in the first place.”
“Some might say that it's easier to be the runner than the runner's family.”
“Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our 'selves'. As long as we think about the world in terms of 'self' and 'others', our actions will be selfish. Our 'self' follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited.”
“Some might say that sunshine follows thunderGo and tell it to the man who cannot shineSome might say that we should never ponderOn our thoughts today cos they will sway over timeSome might say they don't believe in heaven Go and tell it to the man who lives in hellSome might say you get what you've been givenIf you don't get yours I won't get mine as well”
“Some might say they don't believe in heaven Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell.”
“Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.”
“Some might tell you there's no hope in hand
Just because they feel hopeless
But you don't have to be a thing like that
You be a ship in a bottle set sail”
“Some might think of him as a strong draught, burning the back of one’s throat, but invigorating all the same. You might beg to differ. So long as you’re begging, he doesn’t mind a bit.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.”
“Some might think that ten in the morning was a little early to indulge in strong liquor, but Sharky wasn't one of them. He liked a drink, did Sharky, preferably one that lasted from sparrow fart to sack time.”
Source: Not All Tarts Are Apple
“Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
“Some might wonder that the two men should consider themselves to be old friends having only known each other for four years; but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time”
Source: A Gentleman in Moscow