#tend

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#epics #first #intended #literary #meant

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead. ↗

— Scott Adams

#compensate #dead #pretend #tiny #way

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#always #best #elected #election #facility

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#children #commences #education #every #formation

When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! ↗

— Amy Adams

#accused #been #being #bit #blonde

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ↗

— John Adams

#dare #kindly #knowledge #let us #means

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#bartender #college #dad #fifth #go

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#live #lives #model #nobody #people

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#gotta #keep #makes #need #ourselves

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#am #american #american foreign policy #consequences #died