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Saadi (4)
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Anwar Sadat (5)
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
87 quotes regarding family
Carl Sagan (9)
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
428 quotes about being good
Jonas Salk (4)
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus (9)
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
58 quotes about anger
George Sand (9)
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
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Carl Sandburg (24)
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
364 quotes relating to best
Margaret Sanger (2)
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
198 views regarding business
George Santayana (46)
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
233 wisdom & wit relating to being alone
Edward Sapir (2)
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
135 more views about learning
David Sarnoff (3)
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
323 other views relating to death
Virginia Satir (2)
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
427 thoughts about life
Fritz Sauckel (4)
I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.
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George Savile (2)
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
210 quotes about education
Jessica Savitch (14)
By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
32 wisdom & wit about cars
Dorothy L. Sayers (3)
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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Oskar Schindler (2)
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
32 other thoughts relating to cars
Arthur Schopenhauer (29)
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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Olive Schreiner (2)
Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
136 quotes about dreams
Franz Schubert (5)
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
345 quotes relating to happiness
Charles M. Schulz (9)
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
24 views regarding fitness
E. F. Schumacher (2)
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
32 quotes about finance
Clara Schumann (2)
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
425 wisdom & wit about art
Robert Schumann (2)
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
425 more wisdom & wit about art
James Schuyler (2)
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
231 thoughts about poetry
Charles M. Schwab (3)
The man who has done his best has done everything.
364 wisdom & wit relating to best
Delmore Schwartz (2)
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
161 wisdom & wit about courage
Albert Schweitzer (15)
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
428 more wisdom & wit about being good
Walter Scott (15)
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
249 other thoughts about aging
Robert Falcon Scott (3)
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
278 wisdom & wit regarding fear
David Seabury (2)
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
364 views about best
Andres Segovia (2)
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
402 quotes relating to God
Hans Selye (2)
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
44 quotes about attitudes
David O. Selznick (2)
I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.
84 more wisdom & wit regarding morning
Robert W. Service (2)
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
142 views about failure
Dr. Seuss (8)
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
233 thoughts relating to being alone
Eric Sevareid (2)
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
80 other quotes about humor
Jane Seymour (8)
People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
249 other quotes relating to aging
William Shakespeare (81)
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
249 sayings regarding aging
Bill Shankly (3)
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
323 sayings about death
Karl Shapiro (2)
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
231 quotes regarding poetry
Robert Shea (3)
Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
35 sayings regarding design
George A. Sheehan (3)
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
161 other quotes about courage
Fulton J. Sheen (3)
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
323 sayings about death
Percy Bysshe Shelley (19)
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
249 more wisdom & wit regarding aging
William Shenstone (8)
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
58 more quotes relating to anger
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (3)
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
178 views about imagination
William Tecumseh Sherman (20)
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
175 quotes regarding change
Florence Scovel Shinn (2)
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
198 quotes regarding business
David M. Shoup (2)
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
251 quotes relating to history
Philip Sidney (2)
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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Shel Silverstein (2)
To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
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Georges Simenon (2)
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
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Georg Simmel (3)
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.
32 other wisdom & wit relating to positive
Charles Simmons (3)
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
292 wisdom & wit about power
Matthew Simpson (4)
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
240 wisdom & wit about faith
Isaac Bashevis Singer (10)
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
425 other thoughts regarding art
Douglas Sirk (2)
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
218 wisdom & wit about beauty
Edith Sitwell (2)
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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Swami Sivananda (7)
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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Red Skelton (5)
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
323 more quotes about death
B. F. Skinner (7)
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
249 more quotes about aging
Joe Slovo (2)
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
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Samuel Smiles (7)
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
91 views regarding health
Kate Smith (7)
In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
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Sydney Smith (7)
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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Alexander Smith (6)
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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Lillian Smith (3)
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
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Frederick Smith (2)
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
142 thoughts relating to failure
George A. Smith (3)
Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
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Georg Solti (2)
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
135 quotes about learning
John Philip Sousa (3)
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
218 quotes about beauty
Robert Southey (3)
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
179 other wisdom & wit about friendship
Catherine Helen Spence (2)
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
91 views relating to health
Herbert Spencer (20)
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
175 thoughts regarding change
Baruch Spinoza (18)
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
233 quotes about being alone
Benjamin Spock (6)
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
249 other quotes about aging
Joseph Stalin (11)
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
161 other wisdom & wit about courage
Constantin Stanislavski (3)
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
425 sayings about art
Freya Stark (2)
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
345 wisdom & wit regarding happiness
Wallace Stegner (2)
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
59 quotes about teacher
Edward Steichen (3)
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
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John Steinbeck (9)
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Stendhal (14)
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Casey Stengel (12)
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
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Laurence Sterne (14)
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
175 quotes about change
Wallace Stevens (16)
Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
233 quotes about being alone
Adlai E. Stevenson (24)
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
249 other sayings about aging
Robert Louis Stevenson (39)
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Adlai Stevenson (3)
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
32 quotes about cars
Ezra Stiles (2)
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (7)
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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Igor Stravinsky (5)
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
233 quotes about being alone
August Strindberg (3)
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
161 thoughts relating to courage
Louis Sullivan (2)
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
62 quotes about architecture
Anne Sullivan (2)
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
69 wisdom & wit about sadness
Billy Sunday (10)
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
425 quotes about art
Shinichi Suzuki (4)
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
218 more thoughts regarding beauty
Gloria Swanson (7)
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
249 quotes relating to aging
Jonathan Swift (19)
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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John Millington Synge (3)
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
262 quotes regarding knowledge