#ted

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ↗

— George Santayana

#changing #happier #hopelessly #interested #love

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#before #chance #gets #getting #history

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#dependent #deteriorated #economic #find #happened

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand. ↗

— Olivier Sarkozy

#creating #debt #errand #fool #more

Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us. ↗

— Al Lopez

#everybody #hate #hated #just #says

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#been #believe #change #clearly #done

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. ↗

— Erik Satie

#art #invented #modest #most #musician

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water. ↗

— Evan Sayet

#color #drinking #drinking water #every #just

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#any #complicated #done #fact #further