S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.”
“Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.”
Source: The Complete Works
“Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.”
Source: Poems
“Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.”
“Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.”
Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)
“Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.”
“Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.”
“Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Two Welsh preachers were on their way to a meeting. One noticed that the other carried written outlines. 'Ah,' he remonstrated, 'you cannot carry fire on paper.' 'True,' replied his companion, 'but you can use paper to start a fire!'”
“Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!”
Source: Billy Sunday speaks
“Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.”
“Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze to mine again. His eyes were silver, his fangs descended. "There is no going back," he said, "Not after this.”
Source: Twice Bitten
“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”
“SOME MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT TEAMWORK
1. Effective teams work together a lot. We found instead that smoothly functioning groups work just as well when individuals are able to work independently, yet confidently.
2. Conflict between group members is bad. Many researchers agree that this is dangerous. But constructive conflict is essential to prevent such dysfunctions as individual apathy, group-think, and the so-called Abilene paradox, in which members agree to agree, even if they have qualms. What makes conflict constructive is controlled disagreements over ideas (not personalities) and a common commitment to, and mutual confidence in, execution after a decision is made.
3. Teams are better off when members like each other. True, it’s tough to work with someone when you have an overwhelming urge to throttle the person. On the other hand, there are plenty of groups whose members would not care to spend any time together on a personal basis but who do leverage each other’s experience and skill effectively. The key seems to be mutual respect rather than affection.
4. Team satisfaction produces performance. We found no necessary correlations. When a group puts more energy into its own good feelings than into the task at hand, performance suffers. In one extreme example, an IT project manager was so concerned about morale that she would hold pizza parties when deadlines were missed so that people didn’t feel discouraged.”
Source: The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty
“Some misguided scientists and professors of academe possess a kind of arrogance. By misguided we mean those who are content with the extent of their formal knowledge without being characterized by its inner meaning. There is often a lack of humility in science and academia. To them, their intellectual-linear paradigms are the one true way to perceive reality.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.”
“Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'”
“Some mistake proximity for greatness, as if genius were a fragrance to be inhaled.”
Source: Stories Of Jivavarta
“Some mistakes are so innocent that you don’t realise it until someone points it out and then whole world seems unfair.”
“Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.”
“Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once!”
“Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.”
“Some mistakes are worth making twice.”
Source: Interlude
“Some mistakes can cost you a great deal of success. While you cannot avoid some of them, pray for wisdom to make decisions that only lead you to success.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Some mistakes cost everything.”
Source: Happily Ever After?
“Some mistakes don’t feel like mistakes until they’ve already rewritten your life.”
Source: Six Minutes Late: When Love and Madness Arrive Together
“Some mistakes require a price before freedom..."- The Penance (Book 2 of 'The Catalyst' trilogy)”
Source: The Penance
“Some mistakes require a price before freedom
-The Penance (sequel to 'The Catalyst', coming soon)”
“Some mistakes were unforgiveable. Some mistakes came with a regret that lived like a monster in your soul.”
“Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them.”
“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
“Some misunderstand silence as weakness, when it's actually grace at work protecting what God is perfecting in private.”
“Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.”
“Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in ... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.”
“Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.”
“Some models of strength have been largely lost, repressed, or hidden from view, particularly images that are not acceptable or are not safe in a patriarchal society.
Those images of the Sybil, the wise woman, the wild woman, women who are embodiments of specific powers of transformation, magical, spiritual, and psychic, have become wicked witches. Estimates of the number of women executed as witches from the 15th and 18th century, primarily by being burned alive as it was considered a more painful death, range between 60,000 to 100,000. Those were times of puritanism and sexual repression, and the women burned as witches were often independent or rebellious women who lived alone and practiced herbalism, or women who disobeyed their husbands and refused to have sex with them.
Images of the devoted, peaceful mother have always been safe. Such images have always been acceptable in all cultures, even patriarchal ones.
But there is another level of reflection of the primal feminine experience that both men and women long for, and this is an experience that comes from the intuitive sacred feminine, a place where language may be paradoxical and prophetic, where the emphasis is on the symbolic meaning, not the words, a place where women sit in circles naked, wearing mud, bones, and feathers, women who turn into divine goddesses and old hags, who turn into fierce dakinis.”
Source: Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine
“Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.”
“Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.”
“Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence.”
“Some momentary touches of my fire
Have warmed the barren ages with a beam:
There is no peak beyond my swift desire,
There is no beauty deeper than my dream.”
Source: LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS
“Some moments are happy. Some moments are sad. Live each moment. Embrace life!”
“some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.”
“Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.”
“Some moments arrive and we wish to see no trace at all from the civilisation! And such moments are the best proof that our civilisation has a demonic side!”
“Some moments can only be cured with a big squishy grandma hug.”
“Some moments, hours, days, last longer for some people than others, depending. Daily life, whatever it may be really, is practically composed of two lives, said Forster: the life in time, ticking, marching by, regular, implacable, and the life by values, slowing or accelerating, shrinking or expanding, condensing or prolonging. The same sixty-second spans experienced as short minutes, as elongated minutes (as thin minutes or thicker minutes). As separated minutes: distinctive pockets, or stand-out portions of detached, delimited time.”
Source: The Long Form
“Some moments remain forever in the heart, even long after it has stopped beating – those are the only ghosts I truly fear.”
“Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?”
“Some moments will forever stick with you. It might be the first moment you notice a cute little boy in his Spiderman costume, it might be the moment that very boy kisses you for the first time under the stars, it might even be the moment he tells you he loves you, holding you close. Or it might be this very moment. The moment he asks you to marry him and be his forever.”
“Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of the NSA, Michael Rogers, said that, in fact, he doesn't see the sky falling. It's not so serious after all.”