Suspense is worse than disappointment.
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
Charles Sumner
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.
Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.
Gordon Sumner
Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Billy Sunday
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
William A. Sunday
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
Koran Sura
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
Heinrich Suso
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.
In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
Rosalyn Sussman
If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.
Joan Sutherland
Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
Diamond Sutra
All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.
Sutrakritanga
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.
Alfred Sutro
Wearing overalls on weekdays, painting somebody else's house to earn money? You're working class. Wearing overalls at weekends, painting your own house to save money? You're middle class.
Lawrence Sutton
If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.
Percy Sutton
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
William Sutton
Don't serve time, make time serve you
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Abraham Sutzkever
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
Daisetz T. Suzuki
In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
Shunryu Suzuki
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Alice Mackenzie Swaim
Home is where there's one to love us.
Charles Swain
Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
Lynn Swann
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
Gloria Swanson
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy.
J. Swartz
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.
John Swayze
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Emanuel Swedenborg
What is true is true, and what is false is false...
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Paul Sweeney
The greatest success, is successful self acceptance.
Ben Sweet
I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!
George Sweeting
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