#ible

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#convinced #far #first #first thing #man

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#girl #grow #grow up #i #little

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#sacred #space #theatre #you

The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#assurance #bringing #certain #certain level #exchange

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cheapest #clean #develop #fuels #local

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#brought #capacity #century #cold #cold war

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#baseball #did #effort #family #gaming

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#art #bible #education #in other words #language

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#equally #existence #existences #few #leibniz

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#being #especially #incomprehensible #languages #method