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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
- Francois Sagan

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
- George Sand

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
- George Santayana (1863-1952)

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- George Santayana

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
- Virginia Satir

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
- Robert H. Schuller

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
- Robert H. Schuller

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
- Robert H. Schuller

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
- Robert H. Schuller

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them till you reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
- Charles Schwab

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles Schwab

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it's the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
- Nick Seitz

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water.
- Kathy Seligman

You can't reach your goals if you don't try.
- Kathy Seligman

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca

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.
- R. Serling

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
- William Shakespeare

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.
- William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.
- William Shakespeare

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
- George Bernard Shaw

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- George Bernard Shaw

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
- George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
- George Bernard Shaw

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw

Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: "Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time." When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."
- George Bernard Shaw

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
- John Shedd

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. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.
- Gail Sheehy

The preservation or loss of a nation depends on the depth or shallowness of its virtue, not it's strength or weakness.
- Su Shih

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
- Sir William Slim

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
- Samuel Smiles

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
- Fredrick Smith

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not.
- Hannah Whitall Smith

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime feel as indignant as those who are.
- King Solomon

If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
- Julia Sorel

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
- Spanish Proverb

If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
- Nadine Stair

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

Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Adlai Stevenson

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
- Adlai Stevenson

There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.
- Patrick Stewart

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
- W. Clement Stone

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
- Jim Stovall

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- J. Michael Straczynski

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
- J. Michael Straczynski

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Muriel Strode

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgement enough for me.
- Charles William Stubbs

When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
- Kathleen A. Sutton

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
- Swift

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.
- Charles Swindoll

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
- Charles Swindoll

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
- Charles Swindoll

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
- Sandra Swinney

Practice is the best of all instructors.
- Publilius Syrus

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
- Publilius Syrus

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgi