#val

Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#beautiful country #before #changed #country #find

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

Valor is common but great souls are rare. ↗

— Bernard Joseph Saurin

#great #great souls #rare #souls #valor

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. ↗

— Adam Savage

#data #experiment #failed #really #science

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it. ↗

— Dan Savage

#empty #every #exercise #exercised #forget

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love. ↗

— Dan Savage

#dead #even #got #lives #love

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#complaint #early #entire #evening #heels

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death? ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#death #face #his #learned #man

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#how #magazine #nbc #questionable #valuable

Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami. ↗