#pressed

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ↗

— George Santayana

#force #passion #revenge #sometimes #superior

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

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#could #depressed #even #gold #had

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#activities #begun #being #cannot #collective

She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

#expressed #her #instructions #leave #me

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#dark #depressed #depressing #game #get

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#conditions #created #energies #exercise #gives

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#being #buy #covering #depressed #dissimilar

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia. ↗

— David O. Selznick

#depressed #get #holidays #i #sundays