Cobleigh Library Quotes & Sayings

Last year I abstained
this year I devour
without guilt
which is also an art — Margaret Atwood

Today he told Erec "Fun is for having. It is the one thing that is forever." Erec agreed. — Kaza Kingsley

What pleased the land-owner's husband most was the insertion of a clause which stated that, if in any way our work of excavation was interfered with, or the contract was voided, he would have to pay £1000 down. He immediately went away and boasted of this to all his friends. 'It is a matter of such importance,' he said proudly, 'that unless I give all the assistance in my power, and keep all the promises I have made on my wife's behalf, I shall lose £1000.' Everybody was enormously impressed. '£1000,' they said. 'It is possible he will lose £1000! have you heard that? They can extract from him £1000 if anything goes wrong!' I — Agatha Christie

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids. — Candice Bergen

Oh, I have known a few that did want to stop. And I have known a few that did stop. And it ended the same, whether they wanted to or not. — Robin Hobb

Look from the blind man's eye ... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others? — Fawad Afzal Khan

The Choice of a purpose is more important than success. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Know, I know, she continued, setting him down, picking up the half glass of wine. — Nora Roberts

Lillian's face went white and her eyes looked blind as a creature's that had lived underground all its life and only now emerged into the horror of the sun. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream ... to hope. — Edith Piaf

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment. — Gale Norton

Pluralism makes a unifying myth impossible. But if we cannot reinstate such a mythology we can, at least, return to the source from which mythology springs - the creative imagination. — Joseph Campbell