#cant

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. ↗

— George Saunders

#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#attached #forget #head #highly #how

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#athlete #babe #babe ruth #basis #choose

Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree. ↗

— Otto Schily

#certain degree #degree #determine #expanded #facilities

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#atomic #cold #cold war #could #created

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#germany #growth #investment #seeing #significant

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles. ↗

— Bill Scott

#involved #legal #me #middle #now

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#even #evidence #less #organizations #saddam

What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that. ↗

— William Scranton

#fact #find #gotten #had #happened

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#insignificant #nobody #people #satisfies #success