#tent

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#daughter #female #hardest #i #struggle

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

#civilized society #decency #evolving #executing #inconsistent

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#attention #call #cover #dancer #effort

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#because #different #inherently #involves #life

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#catch #difficult #generating #hard #hard work

I think I'm a focus for international attention. ↗

— Sting

#focus #i #i think #international #think

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#allow #best #best work #certain #certain things

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came. ↗

— James Stockdale

#backfired #boss #came #demanded #i

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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