#sand

Vanity is the quicksand of reason. ↗

— George Sand

#reason #vanity

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#heart #his #hopes #net #places

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#circumstances #easy #grain #grain of sand #made

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

I write a thousand words a day. ↗

— Lisa See

#i #i write #thousand #thousand words #words

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#commanders #equally #excel #fit #free

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. ↗

— Duke Snider

#dollars #forty-six #high #salary #season

I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese - big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I'm eating grilled cheese sandwiches and french fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#am #ate #became #big #big mistake

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#get married #i #i can #make #man

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization. ↗

— Tony Snow

#annihilate #anymore #blindness #civilization #death