#sid

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#again #apologise #being #dimension #enough

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#came #consider #creativity #flowed #i

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect. ↗

— George Saunders

#am #been #confidence #dark #dark side

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#belonging #between #category #common #creates

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#automatically #cameras #curve #days #i

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

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay. ↗

— Dan Savage

#gay #how #nothing #obstacles #path

I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps. ↗

— Fred Savage

#dark side #i #i think #keep #little

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#back #back up #car #considerable #distance

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#basis #between #consider #difference #gain