#my

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government. ↗

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#arms #crush #democratically #elected #enemy

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#i #imagine #involvement #kind #myself

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#anything #deliver #desires #i #i am

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#best #birth #fired #life #luck

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#decided #devote #faintest #find #finding

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#blind eye #day #every #every day #eye

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#damning #fear #gained #i #longer

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#convincing #french #fully #i #majority

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#again #apologise #being #dimension #enough

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#been #could #distance #ended #fallen