All Quotes

A smile is the universal welcome.
‐‐ Max Eastman

A smoky eye and nice hair are not going to make my night any easier.
‐‐ Amanda Seyfried

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
‐‐ Hal Borland

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
‐‐ Jane Wagner

A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously they take customer loyalty and goodwill.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
‐‐ Roy Jenkins

A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.
‐‐ Judith Rodin

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
‐‐ Pauline Hanson

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.
‐‐ Robert Reich

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
‐‐ Robert Bork

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
‐‐ Sam Keen

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

A society is not a market. It is a political community.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
‐‐ Yoshihiko Noda

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
‐‐ Mikhail Gorbachev

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
‐‐ Ibrahim Babangida

A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.
‐‐ Johanna Siguroardottir

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
‐‐ Ralph Nader

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

A society which is liberal democratic cannot have public policy determined upon the basis of who has got the loudest voice - or who can brings things to a halt.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim

A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.
‐‐ Dan Gilroy

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
‐‐ Dan Gilroy

A Socrates in every classroom.
‐‐ Alfred Whitney Griswold

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
‐‐ Alexander Chase

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
‐‐ John Lothrop Motley

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
‐‐ Richard Pryor

A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.
‐‐ Nostradamus

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.
‐‐ Kimberly Elise

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.
‐‐ Toni Servillo

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
‐‐ Graham Greene

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.
‐‐ Shimon Peres