#orc

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#experience #forces #generally #maximum #means

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ↗

— May Sarton

#back #circles #down #everything #forces

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

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#attitude #conditions #definite #despised #forced

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. ↗

— Dan Savage

#agree #agreement #ceiling #enforceable #floor

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#death penalty #effective #enforcement #more #penalty

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court? ↗

— Dan Savage

#court #divorce #dream #get #go

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen. ↗

— Girolamo Savonarola

#fishermen #force #glory #his #knows

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#any #earthly #force #old #old woman

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#fur #gangs #harass #leather #more