#ms

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#advantage #attitude #because #constructed #great

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#decide #difference #just #know #life

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#faith #himself #i #i have learned #learned

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#locked #seen #themselves #up #women

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain. ↗

— Elena Ferrante

#divorce #elena-ferrante #love #pain #the-days-of-abandonment

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. ↗

— May Sarton

#feel #give #himself #love #make

He's a real nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Doesn't have a point of view, Knows not where he's going to, Isn't he a bit like you and me? ↗

— The Beatles

#existence #fictional-character #lack-of-motivation #music #music-lyrics

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#fascism #kills #number #them #victims

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choose #circumstances #class #creating #every

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#beasts #better #killed #men #run