#ect

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#doctrines #ideas #perfection #totalitarian

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness. ↗

— Francis Scott Key

#darkness #direction #feels #find #god

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. ↗

— Peter King

#auschwitz #away #bridges #building #community

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#building #continuing #country #east #entire

Man thinks, God directs. ↗

— Alcuin

#god #man #thinks

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#gift #leadership #leadership

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#always #america #audiences #been #business

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#because #burden #eighteen #especially #family

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#black #box #choosing #intellectual #label

When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#hope #hopelessness #inspirational #jonathan-anthony-burkett #life