#zen

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#choose #done #dozen #get #half

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#dumped #everybody #fighter #fights #knows

Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arab #array #bombings #citizens #defending

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#cannot #everyone #frozen #get #into

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#citizens #concessions #durable #existence #far

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#citizen #compromises #everybody #family #his

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#citizen #even #higher #hold #i

This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#area #asked #being #bush #citizens

I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#agency #american #american people #assured #citizens

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#citizens #class #class citizens #dad #japanese