#once

I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#did #feel #first #first time #found

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to? ↗

— Dave Sim

#been #cannot #did #even #exist

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#even #exists #great #know #more

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#distance #element #general #individuals #less

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity. ↗

— Peter Singer

#back #concerned #could #essentially #find

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves. ↗

— Peter Singer

#children #concern #ethical #good #good people

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos. ↗

— Peter Singer

#argue #book #concern #could #does

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#believe #certain #chinese #committed #confident

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#few #fiction #hours #i #into

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#advance #best #cannot #comparatively #great