Countway Library Quotes & Sayings

Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness. — Ralph Marston

Does she know how I want to be her courage? — Christina Lauren

My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more. — Sam Donaldson

I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous. — Walter Cronkite

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. — Leo Ornstein

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I read nonfiction.
She reared back as if offended. — Anne Osterlund

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper. — Navonne Johns

I was regarded by my parents as having little musical talent other than a thin, nasal soprano voice. I was forbidden to touch my father's clarinets or saxophones, just my harmonica. — Pete Townshend

The hope Of active days urged on by flying hours, - — William Wordsworth

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it. — Harriet Morgan