#lie

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#certain #heroes #i #i believe #measure

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#came #family #had #i #i came

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#age #am #another #belief #disguise

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #artist #believes #comes #commissioned

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#double #him #like #may #most

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#direction #good #good deal #know #lies

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#also #anything #assume #because #believe

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#organization #secret #victory

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#comes #everything #lies #life #whatever