#def

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage. ↗

— Dan Savage

#children #compulsory #couples #defines #does

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#condition #defeated #giving #giving up #makes

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#defined #particularly #politicians #texas

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#because #definition #excites #i #i think

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water. ↗

— John Sayles

#america #dead #defeats #feel #final

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. ↗

— Richard Scaife

#defense #funding #government #ideas #individual

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby. ↗

— Jack Scalia

#defense #firefighters #last #line #our

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#completing #defense #found #get #grew

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#because #been #cannot #control #defined

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#assume #attacked #because #community #counterterrorism