#lit

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace. ↗

— Marjorie Watts

#c-a-dawson-scott #communities #humanity #individuals #international-relations

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#done #execution #getting #highest #highest standards

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#around #bit #end #english #favor

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#besides #country #criminals #does #entertainers

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again. ↗

— Jane Austen

#humor #jane-austen #sense-and-sensibility #sons #family

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#feet #heartbeat #little

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography. ↗

— George Phillips Bond

#astronomy #been #bodies #celestial #century

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#advertising #century #dwarfs #force #image

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ↗

— James Boswell

#companion #friend #himself #loves #man

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#fired #like #merit #politics #position