#ty

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach. ↗

— Kojo Annan

#character #father #his #impeccable #integrity

She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view--the point of view of the creature who experiences them. You think she meant that the only shoes we can ever wear are our own. Meg can’t imagine what it’s like for you to be you, she can only imagine herself being you. ↗

— Jay McInerney

#bright-lights #experience

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid. ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#fat #i #just #kid #know

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#books #commas #demand #footsteps #grammar

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#nature #plastic #purity #subjection #truth

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#civilization #his #individuality #narrow-minded #situation

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#good #live #show #well #work

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#equal #liberty #men #nature #other

Hold fast to youth and beauty. ↗

— Elizabeth Arden

#fast #hold #youth

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out. ↗

— Joan Van Ark

#cartoonish #country #her #less #make