#lara

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

#cultural #declaration #human #human rights #must

What we have is divine. It's beautiful and good and right. I feel it..." He presses his his hand to his chest, over his heart. "I feel it all the time. You're in here, part of me. You're what I go to bed thinking about and what I wake up to in the morning. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#love #tucker-avery #beauty

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#cannot #declarations #desired #doubt #into

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#declarations #desired #doubt #mere #no doubt

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#even #observes #polite #politeness #rules

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#americana #called #culture #declaration #first

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. ↗

— Tony Blair

#april #days #declaration #final #full

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#coronation #declaration #future #given #god

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. ↗

— Basil Bunting

#confusing #confusion #destructive #else #exhilaration

I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country. ↗

— Herman Cain

#constitution #country #declaration #dedicated #force