"All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well."

-- Alfred the Great

#Education Quotes #Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“We like someone because. We love someone although.”
“It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.”

Source : "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.
“Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.”
“Above all, a director has to be a good captain.”
“You canâ€™t hate people unless you love them.”
“The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.”

Source : Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”
“I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.”
“Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.”

You may also like:

Alcuin
Poet
Benedict of Nursia
Saint
Bernard Cornwell
Author
Boethius
Philosopher
Charlemagne
Former King of the Franks
Isidore of Seville
Saint
Pope Gregory I
Ragnar Lodbrok
Ruler
Venerable Bede
Saint