#par

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#already #being #compared #delectable #different

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#brothers #champion #confident #i #i am

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall. ↗

— Morley Safer

#marc #pardoning #rich

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country. ↗

— Morley Safer

#certain way #country #did #ford #jerry

I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer. ↗

— Marat Safin

#having #having fun #i #into #life

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. ↗

— William Safire

#answer #bandied #brought #call #colleague

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#certain #characters #compare #feels #finding

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#country #farm #fill #fought #heart

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#am #been #hateful #i #i am

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#any #best #call #classical #comparative