#erin

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. ↗

— George Santayana

#humanly #must #once #past #possible

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. ↗

— George Saunders

#been #capitalist #capitalist society #course #done

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. ↗

— George Saunders

#beauty #believe #capitalism #eradicate #even

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person. ↗

— Dan Savage

#discover #discovering #like #person #straight

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay. ↗

— Dan Savage

#gay #how #nothing #obstacles #path

It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is. ↗

— Fred Savage

#hard #i #mother #night #sleep

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#between #cell #cell phone #chattering #difference

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#car #covering #explosion #far #most

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#always #annoying #attention #attract #fact