#yes

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#cries #eyes #goddam #heart #mean

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. ↗

— George Sand

#beauty #body #eye #eyes #itself

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#awake #eyes #morning #open #open your eyes

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ↗

— George Santayana

#eyes #feet #his #man #planted

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#eyes #feet #just #life #part

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#ah #i #intelligent #keep #know

Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#eyes #feel #front #hair #i

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. ↗

— George Saunders

#arises #asking #become #close #constantly

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better. ↗

— Dan Savage

#chicago #could #eyes #fringe #gay