Beinecke Library Quotes & Sayings

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts. — Naum Gabo

Vasectomy
After the steaming bodies swept
through the hungry streets of swollen cities;
after the vast pink spawning of family
poisoned the rivers and ravaged the prairies;
after the gamble of latex and
diaphragms and pills;
I invoked the white robes, gleaming blades
ready for blood, and, feeling the scourge
of Increase and Multiply, made
affirmation: Yes, deliver us from
complicity.
And after the precision of scalpels,
I woke to a landscape of sunshine where
the catbird mates for life and
maps trace out no alibis - stepped
into a morning of naked truth,
where acts mean what they really are:
the purity of loving
for the sake of love. — Philip Appleman

Water lapped as she sat forward. "Don't play games with me, Roarke."
"Eve, it's my fondest wish to do just that. — J.D. Robb

Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class. — Jackie Speier

There are times in my life where I've had boyfriends or girlfriends. — Miley Cyrus

All the prophecy of Israel turns on one simple but extremely effective idea: namely that all Israel, living and dead, from Sinai to the present hour, stands in its relation to God as a single immortal individual. — Herman Wouk

Always look for your lost ones in trashcans. — Alex Gaskarth

There's always that chance," he says sadly, "Trust me, I know. But you know what'll happen if you don't fall? You'll fly. — Colleen Masters

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward. — Mark Foley

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith. — Rick Warren