#lit

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement. ↗

— Lilli Palmer

#gift #requirement

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate. ↗

— Debra Winger

#give #give me #granted #great #i

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations. ↗

— Chris Patten

#above #accommodations #course #got #i

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends. ↗

— James Payn

#friends #good-natured #hearth #high #impossible

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#literacy #education

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#beautiful #beautiful things #between #career #consistent

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#cities #documenting #i #latin #latin america

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#different #different things #differently #regarding #similarly

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#arrive #critical #cynical #either #heritage