S Quotes
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“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.”
“Some old-school Madonna and Beyoncé and everyone in the room went from being eighteen-year-olds to being twelve-year-olds to seven-year-olds and back again, each song belonging to an age they had all shared.”
Source: A Good Country
“Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.”
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
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“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”
Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks
“Some older or very ill patients may not be suitable candidates for fecal transfer. Colonoscopy is an invasive procedure, especially for those patients who are too ill with other conditions like cancer, heart failure, dialysis, or Alzheimer’s.”
“Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.”
“Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
“Some one has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience. It would have made me in love with love for the rest of my life.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.”
“Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.”
“Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."”
“Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.”
Source: Lectures on the English Poets
“Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose. We have the next thing to that at the present time”
“Some only break their Fast, and so away:
Others stay to Dinner, and depart full fed:
The deepest Age but Sups, and goes to Bed:
He's most in debt that lingers out the Day:
Who dies betime, has less, and less to pay.”
“Some only follow the holy man while others only follow the warlord. But the truth is, both sides are within all of us, and if people could only see that, they wouldn't have to wear masks, or pretend to be holy like a holy man, or pretend that nothing can hurt them like a warlord. They could just be themselves, unjudged.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“Some only perceive a red and blue pill as if there are two choices. However, they are two halves not choices. Combine them and you can take the purple pill and see all sides.”
“Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.”
“Some opportunities take time. Don't give up. Be patient, stay positive and watch them unfold. The best feeling in the world is getting paid to do what you love!”
“Some optimistically hoped the unprecedented bombing of the tiny island would make the conquest of Iwo Jima a two- to three-day job. But on the command ship USS Eldorado, Howlin' Mad shared none of this optimism. The general was studying reconnaissance photographs that showed every square inch of the island had been bombed. "The Seventh Air Force dropped 5,800 tons in 2,700 sorties. In one square mile of Iwo Jima, a photograph showed 5,000 bomb craters." Admiral Nimitz thought he was dropping bombs "sufficient to pulverize everything on the island." But incredibly, the enemy defenses were growing. There were 450 major defensive installations when the bombing began. Now there were over 750. Howlin' Mad observed: "We thought it would blast any island off the military map, level every defense, no matter how strong, and wipe out the garrison. But nothing of the kind happened. Like the worm, which becomes stronger the more you cut it up, Iwo Jima thrived on our bombardment.”
Source: Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima
“Some ordinary events change the entire course of a lifetime, the time of the meeting upsurges.”
“Some other eyes will look around, and find the things I've never found.”
“Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.”
Source: The Stranger
“Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.”
“Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only one of the dimensions of awakened consciousness. Understanding these different dimensions as facets of awakening can help with the confusion surrounding the different spiritual paths. They're not leading to different places, but rather reflect the luminous and liberated aspects of consciousness itself. These qualities are not far away; in fact, they are right here.”
“Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.”
“Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?”
“Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.”
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“Some outcomes, changes and circumstances may seem to be negative in the moment.
Instead of focusing on the negative, realize that many things happen to simply allow space for new opportunities and new beginnings to emerge.
The key to happiness is to accept and make peace with the things that have happened, be grateful for what is NOW and get excited about the infinite possibilities and opportunities to come.”
“Some overly enthusiastic feminists have suggested a fundamental bias in the word—and in the process it represents—and have enjoyed proclaiming their account of women in the past as herstory. But “history” comes from Middle English histoire, which is exactly the modern French word for both “history” and “story,” and before that from Latin and Greek—all languages in which “his” is not the masculine personal pronoun. But wordplay among contemporary academic theorists works whether or not it’s true, and this is simply a lie.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.”
“Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed
You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed.”
“Some pain in her eyes”
“Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.”
“Some pain lingers,
because even suffering can feel like home.
There’s a quiet devastation in realizing
you’ve become fluent in the language of your own pain—
that you’ve worn suffering for so long,
it fits like a second skin.”
“Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced. Without the agony of the last few months, Piper never would have found her best friends, Hazel and Annabeth. She never would’ve discovered her own courage. She certainly wouldn’t have had the guts to sing show tunes to the snake people under Athens.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.”
“Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.”
Source: King of Thorns
“Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.”
“Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.”
Source: Francis Bacon
“Some paint with brushes and others use words.”
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
“Some Pakistanis fought for the Taliban. Pakistani extremist groups provided infrastructural support to Al Qaeda. There was a coming and going of Al Qaeda militants and leaders between Afghanistan and Pakistan for several years. All that has really happened is that Al Qaeda has escaped from Afghanistan come into Pakistan, got in touch with their contacts and friends in these extremist groups, which then provided them with safe houses, cars, and not just in the border areas but also in the cities. Rooting out Al Qaeda in Pakistan now is where the main battle is being fought.”
“Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.”
Source: The Liberal Imagination
“Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.”
“Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down.”
Source: Outrun the Moon
“Some parents cannot distinguish between punishment and discipline. Anyone can punish a child and many parents do it out of frustration. Discipline requires time, patience, and love and may include some punishment. To punish children without discipline usually involves a parent who is frustrated and has turned to anger.”
Source: Serial Murderers and their Victims