#hip

Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#friendship

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#friendship #scarcity

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada. ↗

— Nelly Furtado

#hip-hop #us

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will ↗

— Jack Welch

#e-zsigma #islss #kaizen #leadership #lean

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#any #continually #creation #god #hardly

Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it. ↗

— James Garner

#blockbusters #everybody #few #films #i

Nothing changes if nothing changes ↗

— Donna Barnes

#dating-advice #relationship-advice #relationships #change

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship. ↗

— Tony Garza

#fox #friendship #government #his #i

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been