#up

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#every #expression #factors #form #imposed

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#constructed #course #criticism #idea #inferiority

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#employment #give #global #happened #i

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#also #beginning #came #certain #certain way

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#decide #difference #just #know #life

It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#different #different world #doing #growing #growing up

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#locked #seen #themselves #up #women

We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#again #bankruptcy #confronting #crisis #manufacturing

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#been #could #distance #ended #fallen