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She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation. – Willa Cather
She wanted something to happen - something, anything she did not know what. – Kate Chopin
She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. – Kate Chopin
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. – William Wordsworth
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. – Henry James
She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. – Zelda Fitzgerald
She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. – Olga Brouman
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. – Adlai Stevenson
She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome. – John Green
Sheep are under the bed, but the wolf is on the bed. – Charles de LEUSSE
Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS... – Anonymous
Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. – Zora Neale Hurston
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. – Les Brown
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. – Les Brown
Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. – Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. – Euripides
Short sentences drawn from long experiences. – Cervantes
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life. – Author Unknown
Should I marry W. Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. – Woody Allen
Should one see a wise man who, like a revealer of treasures, points out faults and reproves, let one associate with such a wise person for the benefits he shall receive. – Unknown
Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables) – Victor Hugo
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need. – Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother. – Ronald Reagan

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