#bj

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#marriage #more #nonsense #subject #talked

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar. ↗

— Robert Shea

#because #focus #generally #goes #lend

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached. ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#being #changed #every #every time #false

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#familiar #hidden #lifts #makes #objects

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#good #good student #i #i think #interested

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. ↗

— Hu Shih

#basis #better #biological #death #decay

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career. ↗

— Martin Short

#career #i #kind #luxury #objective

Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes. ↗

— Josh Silver

#attitudes #changes #matters #peter #style

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view. ↗

— Nate Silver

#call #commitment #having #journalism #lot

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#i #material #never #other #people