#are

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. ↗

— George Stigler

#died #i #mack #margaret #married

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#about #against #any #areas #being

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia. ↗

— James Stockdale

#any #asia #bomb #book #declared

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#beautiful #child #divorced #gift #give

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#again #attitude #experience #failure #get

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing. ↗

— Marie Carmichael Stopes

#beauty #credit #doing #own #sixteen

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ↗

— Marie Stopes

#beauty #credit #doing #own #sixteen

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#ask #believe #best #else #every

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anti-semitism #been #desperate #economic #i

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#had #i #like #parents #privileged