#lent

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#ask #determination #i #ingredients #luck

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#anarchy #any #appear #centuries #compare

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#again #boundaries #cannot #certain #certain things

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace. ↗

— James D. Watkins

#characteristic #chief #era #i #modern

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself. ↗

— Eric San

#battle #celebrating #end #expression #in the end

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#book #dead #genius #man #masterpiece

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#doomed #equivalent #failure #human #human actions

My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#adam sandler #good-looking #i #multi-millionaire #name

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#attitude #characteristic #form #insolent #others

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#doomed #equivalent #failure #human #human actions