#never

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#civilization #conquest #development #law #march

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say. ↗

— Carly Simon

#i #never #particular #peculiar #say

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#earth #even #expect #extinct #extremely

You can never be too rich or too thin. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#rich #thin #too #you

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#characters #failings #find #had #hard

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american #american society #except #farm #felt

I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the show had not just in entertainment but in life. I knew who Chekhov was and I knew who Kirk and Spock were, although I probably had never seen the show. ↗

— Marina Sirtis

#characters #chekhov #entertainment #fan #goes

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#artistic #came #crawled #heap #i

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#become #commodities #country #currency #gold

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity. ↗

— Spider Robinson

#explained #malice #never #reasonably #stupidity