#nat

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. ↗

— Ben Stein

#animal #basic #being #breathing #eating

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement. ↗

— Ben Stein

#alert #am #around #calmer #concentrate

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are. ↗

— Edith Stein

#need #needs #simply

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#care #certainly #four #grinds #her

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#death #eyes #hope #illusions #indulge

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#imitation #interesting #more #nature

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#believe #dedication #does #hold #i

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#based #because #call #constitution #coordinate

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#audrey hepburn #black-and-white #child #gritty #hepburn

The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait. ↗

— John C. Stennis

#attempt #helpful #international #nation #restrict