#prop

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed. ↗

— Sallust

#himself #life #live #make #me

To eat is to appropriate by destruction. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#destruction #eat

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists. ↗

— Jil Sander

#apparent #certain #cultural #dated #designer

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. ↗

— George Santayana

#each #enabling #fortifying #help #human

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#both #common #concerned #constructed #far

I am not a prophet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#i #i am #prophet

I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue. ↗

— George Saunders

#big #chicago #cranky #dear #fan

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory. ↗

— George Savile

#good #good memory #memory #prophet #qualification

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#great #had #having #lean #now

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. ↗

— Philip Schaff

#didactic #historical #kinds #prophetic #three