#bj

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject. ↗

— William Safire

#comes #dealing #intellectual #primary #shape

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day. ↗

— William Safire

#any #aside #cast #column #day

The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#country #doubt #every #i #interests

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#always #ambiguity #better #candid #felt

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#comedy #critics #got #hard #i

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#actually #after #art #artist #because

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. ↗

— George Santayana

#events #feelings #form #giving #inner

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. ↗

— George Santayana

#brief #could #created #fear #first

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#alone #become #beings #expression #human

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#away #else #enjoy #fact #generosity