#co

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#bounds #completely #easy #ethical #extent

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#another #career #comment #deed #good

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. ↗

— Simeon Poisson

#good #life #mathematics #only #teaching

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#family #family life #great #how #i

I had two roles for which I compromised. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#had #i #roles #two #which

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#caste #colour #country #eat #except

The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things, To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold. Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true? ↗

— Pádraig Pearse

#dreams #dreams-coming-true #reality #dreams

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#class #colonial #father #important #man

My wife collects knickknacks. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#wife

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#compliment #deserved #enormous #i #jackie