Quotes Sp-Sz
"Quitting the Boy Scouts was probably one of the most painful experiences I've
ever had to endure. But they are wrong and you are right. We are right and we
have never been more right than we are right now, in this country and at this
time." -- Steven Spielberg
"Shame is not for you to feel. Guilt is not for you to feel. This is not your
generation." - Stephen Spielberg talking to German high-schoolers
"If I had my life to live over . . . I'd dare to make more mistakes next
time." -- Nadine Stair
"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity." -- Barbara Stanwyck
"No one wants advice, only corroboration." -- John Steinbeck
"Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just
more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and
impossible standards of appearance for women, instead of individuality and
health." -- Gloria Steinem
"Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave
the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true
but incomplete answer. In fact, woman's total instinct for gambling is
satisfied by marriage." -- Gloria Steinem
"In America anyone can become President � it�s one of the risks you take when
you live here." -- Adlai Stevenson
"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." -- Adlai Stevenson
"Everyone, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences."
-- R. L. Stevenson
"You know what I think the Army's actually afraid of? A thousand gay guys with
M16s going, 'Who'd you call a faggot?'" -- Jon Stewart
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. Musicians paint their pictures on
silence." -- Leopold Stokowski
"We live in an age of continuous partial attention." -- Ms. Linda Stone
"Age is a high price to pay for maturity." -- Tom Stoppard
"It is not the voting that is democracy; it is the counting." -- Tom Stoppard
"Being a man or woman of prayer might give you no insight at all into
organizing a cabinet . . . Competence in government is more necessary than
piety." -- Ray Suarez, "The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America,"
Convocation at Carleton College, 5/19/2006
"How do you know when it's time to tune your bagpipes?" -- Thomas Sugimura
"I've been HIV-positive for ten years now, and my immune system is healthier
now than when I got infected. I look better than I did when I was negative,
have experienced deep spiritual and emotional growth as a result of my HIV
experience, and live every day now with a vigor and gratitude I never felt
before. I'm just one of thousands of productive, healthy people with HIV who
are daily -- albeit unconsciously -- transmitting the message that an HIV
diagnosis is no calamity. Having been a beneficiary of the solution to HIV, I
am now unwittingly part of the problem." -- Andrew Sullivan
"The majority of social conservatives oppose gay marriage; they oppose gay
citizens serving their country in the military; they oppose gay citizens
raising children; they oppose protecting gay citizens from workplace
discrimination; they oppose including gays in hate-crime legislation, while
including every other victimized group; they oppose civil unions; they oppose
domestic partnerships; they oppose ... well, they oppose, for the most part,
every single practical measure that brings gay citizens into the mainstream of
American life. This is simply bizarre. Can you think of any other legal, non-
criminal minority in society toward which social conservatives have nothing
but a negative social policy?" -- Andrew Sullivan
"HIV transformed my life, made me a better and braver writer, prompted me to
write the first big book pushing marriage rights, got me to take better care
of my health, improved my sex life, and deepened my spirituality. I'm sorry.
I'll try to do better. ... I'm almost as bad as those damn drug ads showing
people with HIV triumphing over adversity." -- Andrew Sullivan
"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude
to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than
education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than
what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance,
gift, or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.
The remarkable thing is that we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we
will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past . . . The only thing we
can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am concvinced
that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is
with you . . . we are in charge of our attitudes." -- Charles Swindoll
"A woman said to me
T'other day . . .
I read one of your poems
About women,
I thought it very good
But
It didn't say that you
were BLACK
Now I meet you and
see that you
are BLACK
I wonder
Why you wrote the poem?
Do _they_ think
we spend
our whole lives
being BLACK
for them?" -- Bobbi Sykes
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