#be

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#america #become #book #criminal #i

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#about #been #found #gave #had

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#boisterous #children #commerce #degrading #despotism

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#education #elementary #ensure #every #high-quality

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#actual #brain #deal #enables #feels

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. ↗

— Euripides

#beauty #fine #girl #husband #keep

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#came #change #change the world #complicity #denounce

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#category #different #i #language #parents

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing. ↗

— Linda Evangelista

#i #out #question #rock #rock star

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#between #gulf #intellectuals