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Fear
is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual —
and the soul of a people.
Anwar el-Sadat (1918-1981) Egyptian soldier and statesman
Kids’ views are often just as
valid as the teachers’. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Morley Saefer
If
William L. Safire
But
the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are
laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
American scientist and writer
To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
American scientist and writer
My parents were not
scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me
simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily
cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
American scientist and writer The
Demon-Haunted World
When
you make the finding yourself -- even if you're the last person on Earth to see
the light -- you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
American scientist and writer
Liberals
feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything
they've stolen.
Mort Sahl (b. 1927)
Canadian-American humorist
If
you want to build a ship, don't drum up the workers to gather wood, don't
divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and
endless sea.
Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
French aviator and writer
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
French aviator and writer
I have no right to say or do anything
that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him,
but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
French aviator and writer
On
ne voit bien
qu’avec le coeur... L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux... (It is only with the heart that one can see
clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eyes.)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) French
aviator and writer
What garlic is to salad,
insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Reminiscences
Most
people are worried about their own bellies and other people's souls, while we
should all be worried about other people's bellies and our own souls.
Rabbi
All wars are
civil wars, because all men are brothers.... Each one owes infinitely more to
the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
François de Salignac
de la Mothe Fenelon, (1651 – 1715)
If
you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians,
nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Robert Cecil,
Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) British
politician
Few
men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust (c. 86-35 BC) Roman historian and politician [Gaius
Sellustius Crispus] History
Poor science. We look to it to extend our lifespan, explain our origins, chart the
stars, shrink the globe, and make us sexy until our dying day. But do we revere
it? Adore it?
Stephanie Salter
The
Jim Samuels (contemp.) American stand-up comic
Matters
of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a
lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a
passion.
George
Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-American poet
and philosopher
To
knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep
delight of the blood.
George
Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-American poet
and philosopher
My
atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the Universe and denies
only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their own human
interests.
George
Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-American poet
and philosopher On My Friendly Critics
For
37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius.
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Spanish violinist and composer
Try
as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh,
laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive.
You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan (1908-1981)
American writer
If
you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul
Sartre (1905-1980) French philosopher and
writer
Like
all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Jean-Paul
Sartre (1905-1980) French philosopher and
writer
We
cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones,
our very passivity would be an act.
Jean-Paul
Sartre (1905-1980) French philosopher and
writer
Most
people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Robert C.
Savage (contemp.)
A
man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile, Marquis of
I cannot open the
windows from the outside without breaking them; but from the inside, you can
lift them with ease.
B. Sbragia
A
merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) German poet, playwright, critic
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared
by everybody.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) German poet, playwright, critic
You don’t raise
heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be
heroes, even if its just in your own eyes.
Walter M. Schirra,
Sr.
Sometimes you’re
ahead, sometimes you’re behind ... the race is long and, in the end, it’s only
with yourself.
Mary Schmich
The notes I handle no better
than many pianists, But the pauses between the notes -
ah, that is where the art resides!
Arthur Schnabel
Martyrdom
has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness, of a belief.
Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)
Austrian physician, playwright, novelist
Büch der Spruche und Bedenken
We
forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
Arthur
Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German
philosopher
MR. KEATING: We don’t read and write poetry
because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the
human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law and
business are noble pursuits. They are necessary to sustain life. But poetry,
beauty, romance and love; these are what we stay alive for. You are here. Life
exists, and identity. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
What will your verse be?
Tom Schulman (contemp.) American screenwriter,
director Dead Poet's Society (1989)
MR. KEATING: Now, I’d like you to step
forward over here. They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like
you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They
believe they’re destined for great things, just like many of you,
their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late
to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you
see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real
close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen,
you hear it? --- Carpe --- hear it? --- Carpe, carpe diem, seize
the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
Tom Schulman (contemp.) American screenwriter,
director Dead Poet's Society (1989)
My life has no purpose, no
direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What
am I doing right?
Charles Schulz
There’s nothing like unrequited love to take all the taste out of a peanut
butter sandwich.
Charles
Schulz
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction.
E F Schumacher
You
can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Of course, you could do even
better with a dead squirrel.
Fred Schwartz
I
believe forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the
meeting.
Norman Schwartzkopf (b. 1934)
American military leader On forgiving the 9/11 terrorists
There are two
means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
For over a
thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a
triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians
and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden
with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal
chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot or
rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden
crown and whispering in his ear a warning that all glory is fleeting.
George C. Scott in
“Patton”
The
willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which
resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and
frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than
those of a loftier character.
Sir Walter
Scott (1771-1832) Scottish writer,
historian, biographer
They
couldn't hit an elephant at this dist --
John Sedgwick (1813-1864) American army officer Last words to troops during a Civil War
battle
There's
very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot
they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what
I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."
Jerry
Seinfeld (b. 1955) American comedian
Where
lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's
final word on where your lips end.
Jerry
Seinfeld (b. 1955) American comedian
Throughout
history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the
indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of
justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
And when he came
to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and
gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible
claws till Max said “BE STILL!” and tamed them with the magic trick of staring
into all their yellow eyes without blinking once and they were frightened and
called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.
“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”
Maurice Sendak,
Where the Wild Things Are
It
is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and
probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits
singing about toilet paper.
Rod Serling (1924-1975)
American writer
I once cried because I had no shoes
until I met a man that had no class.
George Sessum
Sometimes you just have to throw your
hands up in the air and say, 'He was dead when I got here'.
George Sessum
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice
cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, “How could it be so? It came
without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or
bags.” And he puzzled and puzzled ‘till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. “What if
Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps,
means a little bit more?”
Dr. Seuss
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a
necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong
end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
Dr. Seuss
If you never did, you should.
These things are fun, and fun is good.
Dr. Seuss
Insisting
on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real
world.
Mary Shafer (contemp.) American aeronautics engineer
Truth
is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be
governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.
Anthony
Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) English politician and philosopher
One
of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that
something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation
purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Idries Shah (1924-1996) Indian- British writer, Sufi teacher
This
above all: to thine own self be
true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to
any man.
William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and
poet Hamlet Act I, Scene III
There are more
things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and
poet Hamlet
Tomorrow, and
tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last
syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to
dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is
a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and
poet Macbeth
“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d
here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream”
William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and
poet A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
We
are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
William
Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and
poet The Tempest, IV.I
Death during
adolescence feels unfair. We’re young. We’re invincible. Death is supposed to
come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence,
its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young
people.
Sara Shandler
Why
are they always blaming everything on the rappers? Don't blame the youth. Blame
the wicked culture. Every Sunday night on TV, Angela Lansbury
taught these kids violence on _Murder, She Wrote_ ... Blame the reruns of _Have
Gun, Will Travel_ and _Gunsmoke_.
Rev. Al Sharpton (b. 1954)
American clergyman and activist on media coverage of Gangsta Rappers
There's
more to life than a tiny tush, and you don't die from
embarrassment.
Carole Shaw (contemp.) American singer, publisher,
activist When
asked the most important things she'd learned in life
If
you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
Human
beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
Why should we
take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
The
power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t
have it.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
Reading made Don Quixote a
gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
Custom
will reconcile people to any atrocity.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
Maxims for Revolutionists
Assassination
is the extreme form of censorship.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
Silence
is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
Life
does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be
serious when people laugh.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
Patriotism
is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because
you were born in it.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
The
liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he
cannot believe anyone else.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
The
only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every
time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and
expected them to fit me.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
We
should be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our
existence. -- on pain of liquidation.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
When
a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic
Lack
of money is the root of all evil.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic Man and Superman (1903)
The
worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be
indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British
playwright and critic The Devil's Disciple
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two
vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the
desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a
shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip,
and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its
sculptor well those passions read
Which yet
survived, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that
mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the
pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works,
ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing
beside remains. Round
the decay
Of that colossal
wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and
level sands stretch far away.
Percy Bysshe
Shelley
Soul meets soul
on lover’s lips.
Percy Bysshe
Shelley
It's
a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor
was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Alan Shepherd