#sol

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#case #desire #done #easiest #easiest way

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#communication #essentially #illusion #imagine #incidental

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#likely #more #more and more #received #resentment

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#attitude #characteristic #form #insolent #others

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#body #control #disorder #eating #feeling

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#again #apologise #being #dimension #enough

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. ↗

— May Sarton

#agree #ambiguous #best #clear #crystal

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#am #behalf #convinced #i #i am

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#death #dividend #drawing #grey #land

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#death #debatable #exceptions #nothing #statement