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I've been a big talent, I've been a big loser, I've been a big second. Now I'm a big winner.
Norwegian gold medalist 1500-meter speedskater Adne Sondral ('98 olympics)

I knew we had a great team. I told everyone if we play as a group, we can win it all. Everyone laughed. Now we're laughing.
Jiri Slegr of the Czech Republic hockey team, which defeated the U.S., Canada, and Russia in consecutive games to win the gold medal ('98 Olympics)

Everybody had better get used to this smile right here. It's going to be on my face every day.
Gary Sheffield, Florida Marlins

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not.
Susan Spano

Very fine is my valentine. Very fine and very mine.
Gertrude Stein

Man is ultimately responsible for his own fate and defines his life through his own actions.
Jean-Paul Sartre

There is a good side to every situation.
David Joseph Schwartz

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Sydney Smith

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy with $48 million.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Life doesn't cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

It's easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission.
Dr. Debbie Silver

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith

Ninety-percent of everything is crap.
Theodore Sturgeon (Sturgeon's Law)

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
Peter de Silva

This is our purpose:
to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us;
to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves;
to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), philosopher

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.
George Bernard Shaw

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
Harold Stephens

Truth is the only ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), women's suffrage leader

Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!
Tommy Smothers

But the fact that some geniuses are laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan

You are what you think about all day long.
Dr. Robert Schuller, author and minister

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
John Sales

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.
Jose Simon

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson

Make sure you don't end up the richest person in the cemetery. You can't do business from there.
Colonel Harlan Sanders (1890-1980), Founder of KFC

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills, opera singer

When a man's biggest dreams include seconds on dessert, occasional snuggling, and sleeping till noon on weekends, no one man can destroy them.
Marge Simpson

It is the great of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845), clergyman and writer

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith, writer and evangelist

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), medical missionary and Nobel Peace prize winner

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Dr. Seuss

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders's dying words

You know you are on a diet when postage stamps taste good.
Karen G. Stone

For every person who wants to teach, there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn - much.
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman

Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
Ronnie Shakes

When you give of yourself, you receive more than you give.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), writer

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
George Slex

There are no hopeless situations - only people who are hopeless about them.
Dina Shore (1917-1994), entertainer

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith, former pro-tennis player

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Art Spander

There is no substitute for paying attention.
Diane Sawyer

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.
Payne Stewart

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer

Being married is like having someone permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
Gloria Steinem

Diving into every radiant moment...
SARK

Stand tall, laugh loudly, and be who you truly are.
SARK

He that is over-cautious will accomplish little.
Johann Friedrich von Schiller, German historian

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.
William Sessions, former FBI director

It isn't easy for any of us to transcend the past, or pain we might have suffered. Yet, there are gifts in those pains, and we can choose to let light into the dark places.
SARK

Our lives are filled with gorgeous moments. Relax, and let these moments seep into your soul.
SARK

Stop telling ourselves big lies and letting inner critics run our lives.
SARK

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
Garry Shandling

Marry yourself first. Promise to never leave you.
SARK

Growing can be uncomfortable, loud, and unfamiliar.
SARK

Dare to err and to dream.
Johann Friedrich von Schiller, author

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard

Succulence comes from your center - the sweet, true part of you - your essence - that belongs to no one else.
SARK

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

We are not alone in the world,
It just seems that way sometime.
SARK

Women's hearts are big enough to bear the pain, peer into the dark, and do the work.
SARK

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as a gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards, or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.
Merle Shain (1935-1989), writer

I believe it is important to continue having outrageous adventures all through our lives - in whatever forms they take.
SARK

Rocks: We are reminded that growth and change can be microscopic and result in something solid.
SARK

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you are lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
Adela Rogers St. Johns

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less the issue, and what you are is the point.
Susan Sarandon

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

The nourishment starts on the inside. When we tell ourselves and others the truth and identify what we really want and need, we are nourishing ourselves.
SARK

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, "No hablo ingles."
Ronnie Shakes

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979), clergyman

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
J.W. Schopf

There must be something more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak

Magic and reality aren't necessarily different things.
Sting

Any great truth can - and eventually will - be expressed as a cliché - a cliché is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off the fence." I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
Solomon Short

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
Tom Stoppard

A star - shining softly on its own, but brightest when shared with many.
SARK

The greatest high you can get in life is by helping somebody.
Timothy Stackpole, NYC firefighter who perished at WTC, 09/11/01

What kind of love story are you living?
SARK

If we can just feel our way from one real moment to the next, we will be really living our love story.
SARK

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
Florence Shinn (1871-1940), writer

There can be no happiness if the things we believe are different from the things we do.
Freya Madeline Stark (1893-1993), writer

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel, author

Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arnold Schopenhauer (1788-1860), philosopher

No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), novelist, essayist, and poet

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman, minister

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), linguist

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

When you rule your mind you rule the world.
When you choose your thoughts you choose results.
Imelda Shanklin, writer

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
Madame de Stael (1766-1817), writer

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Lee Simonson

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.
George Sand (1804-1876), French author

It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey (1774-1843)

Today was good.
Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.
Dr. Seuss (Theodore Seuss Geisel)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (BC 3 - 65 AD), writer/philosopher

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, "Discovery" 1964

Faith doesn't mean the absence of fear. It means having the energy to go ahead, right alongside the fear.
Sharon Salzburg, cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

When you cannot make up your mind which of the two evenly-balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
William Joseph Slim, British Field Marshal

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), French writer

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase;
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy, writer

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Virginia Satir, social worker

Silence saved me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), composer

I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
Garry Shandling

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare

If you can't explain it to your mother or grandmother, don't do it.
Glen Salow, business executive

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw, "Annajanska" (1919)

I like life. It's something to do.
Ronnie Shakes

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
Jerry Seinfeld

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell (1820-1878)

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970), minister

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Sydney Smith

Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of him.
Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), statesman and writer

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Art Spander

Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.
George Shinn, entrepreneur

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
C.P. Snow

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), "Maxims for Revolutionists"

The suit is definitely the universal business outfit for men. I don't know why it projects this image of power. Why is it intimidating? "We'd better do what this guy says, his pants match his jacket."
Jerry Seinfeld

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates (469?-399 BCE), philosopher

We are all salespeople. Everybody is selling something - an idea, a dream, or a point of view.
W. Clement Stone, business executive and author

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
Anne Wilson Schaef, psychotherapist

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd

Reminding one another of the dream that each of us aspires to may be enough for us to set each other free.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
Edwin H. Stuart

Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Schulz

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg, "A Madman's Diary," 1895

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.
Anita Shreve, "Weight of Water"

People often say that this person or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
Thomas Szasz, psychiatrist

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana

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