#con

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#conscience #driving #like #living

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#comfort #consideration #dignity #few #fighters

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#conform #either #expected #go #going

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#books #continue #i #like #read

The moving hand once having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#inevitability #life #time #life

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. ↗

— James Schuyler

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Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#addressing #being #black #brought #christians

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#consists #human #human being #humanitarianism #never

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. ↗

— Hans Selye

#adopting #convert #into #negative #positive

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano. ↗

— Barbara Ann Scott

#discipline #edges #exercises #finger #just