Illiterate Leaders Quotes

#1. From time to time it may find it useful to send out missionaries, but its first missionary task is to be a witness in and to the worlds in which it finds itself. All missionary tasks are in that sense local. - Author: Stanley Hauerwas

#2. I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera. - Author: Katie Finneran

#3. A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise. - Author: Derrick Jensen

#4. What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it. - Author: Najib Mikati

#5. You may have heard the news that the independent bookstore is dead, that books are dead, that maybe even reading is dead - to which I say, Pull up a chair, friend. I have a story to tell. - Author: Ann Patchett

#6. With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. - Author: Keshavan Nair

#7. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. - Author: Oscar Wilde

#8. The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. - Author: Robert Quillen

#9. There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses. - Author: Toba Beta

#10. Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. - Author: Virginia Woolf

#11. This particularly tends to happen with depression and anxiety. With anxiety you tend to get hooked by stories about the future, about things that might go wrong and how badly you're sure to handle them. - Author: Russ Harris

#12. I'll piously gather up the crumbs of your feasts and make a meal of them," said Nora. "I'll let you know how they taste. - Author: Henry James

#13. The fact that you can't remember things doesn't mean that you haven't been shaped by them. - Author: Douglas Wilson

#14. The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities. - Author: Lord Acton