#might

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. ↗

— Saadi

#beloved #humility #magnanimity #poor #rich

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

#any #because #been #between #considerations

And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#because #cities #different #find #fit

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#beyond #book #business #go #i

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#become #cancer #circle #connections #diagnosed

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#directing #film #forming #i #into

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#bit #die #going #inevitable #little

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#blow #blows #bomb #bus #hitchcock

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray. ↗

— Evan Sayet

#although #anne #canada #easy #even

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#home #i #invested #might #money