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9076 quotesWriting is the continuation of politics by other means.
Writers and Writing
Philippe Sollers
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Aristocracy
Solon
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Wealth
Solon
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Government
Solon
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Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.
Aggression
Ted Solotaroff
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Communism and Socialism
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Responsibility
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Talent
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Truth
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.
Idiots
Darryl Somers
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Humor
Stephen Sondheim
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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Ambition
Susan Sontag
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
Depression
Susan Sontag
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In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
Cinema
Susan Sontag
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Suffering
Susan Sontag
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Literature
Susan Sontag
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Possibilities
Susan Sontag
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Truth
Susan Sontag
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Writers and Writing
Susan Sontag
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I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
Uncategorised
Sophocles
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Appreciation
Sophocles
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Ignorant menDont know what good they hold in their hands untilTheyve flung it away.
Uncategorised
Sophocles
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Speakers and Speaking
Sophocles
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Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
Possibilities
Sophocles
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Judgment and Judges
Sophocles
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun