#mer

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. ↗

— Stendhal

#envy #far #far less #france #less

It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C. ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#get #gets #going #hot #hotter

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#america #babies #big #countries #eating

America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it. ↗

— Andy Stern

#america #congress #country #deal #does

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime. ↗

— Andy Stern

#been #best #class #cost #creating

I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#american woman #angry #been #born #i

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#ah #bali #bit #i #summer

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done! ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#artists #break #done #got #i

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#american literature #british #could #english #inappropriate