#able

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. ↗

— Stendhal

#forty years #make #nobility #now #our

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

#both #desire #especially #fashionable #fine

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#nothing #nowadays #once #pretext #profound

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#did #enable #maintain #me #objectivity

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#called #conventional #insane #madmen #place

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ↗

— John Sterling

#instinct #intelligence #self-consciousness

America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it. ↗

— Andy Stern

#america #congress #country #deal #does

It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing. ↗

— Andy Stern

#conspiring #contracts #employers #enforceable #establishing

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#actor #create #hand #his #palm

The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#budget film #city #company #direct #early