#sit

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood. ↗

— Beanie Sigel

#curb #had #i #manhood #never

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance. ↗

— Nate Silver

#answer #extent #find #know #making

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects. ↗

— Nate Silver

#build #choices #dealing #example #financial

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#i #material #never #other #people

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#cute #graceful #i #kind #me

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#beef #believe #corn #expect #fly

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#could #had #happened #hardly #human

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#desk #gently #give #give me #hand

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#interaction #naturally #positive #relation #specific

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#end #first #first step #glorious #greatness