Anti Library Quotes & Sayings

She made me safe. Safe to fail. Safe to be nothing more or less than a roofer's son from upstate New York. — C.D. Reiss

If you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon-worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the grey-haired peasantry; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity. A shadowy conception of power that by much persuasion can be induced to refrain from inflicting harm, is the shape most easily taken by the sense of the Invisible in the minds of men who have always been pressed close by primitive wants, and to whom a life of hard toil has never been illuminated by any enthusiastic religious faith. To them pain and mishap present a far wider range of possibilities than gladness and enjoyment: their imagination is almost barren of the images that feed desire and hope, but is all overgrown by recollections that are a perpetual pasture to fear. — George Eliot

The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other — Madeleine K. Albright

At middle age, I decide to give up on my dream of being an astronaut and follow my second, to be a writer. Also, I heard there was no smoking in the space station. — Michael Kroft

They who were so important, who wanted to create the world, are dumbfounded; everything crumbles. — Maurice Blanchot

Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual. — Vimala Thakar

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel. Every time I went to the library, every time I asked people these questions, I would get some strange looks. Nobody could answer any of these questions. — Michio Kaku

Tell him Sudha has not forgotten him. — Rabindranath Tagore

And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other. — Meister Eckhart

Operating systems are like underwear - nobody really wants to look at them. — Bill Joy

Pray for strength to preserve. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an "anti-library," a vast collection of books he had not read, believing that one's personal trove should contain as much of what you don't know as possible. Some — Pamela Paul

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism. — David Copperfield

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. — Robert Indiana

Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts ... Time will make this plain. — Charles Grandison Finney

Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality. — Steve Maraboli