Cybeles Quotes & Sayings

Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes. — Sylvia Beach

One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the good of the child. Too much sex education too soon causes undue curiosity and obsession with sex. — Beverly LaHaye

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. — Maggie Gallagher

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. — William Nicholson

A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world ... — Juliet Marillier

You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also ... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest; ... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

In an autobiographical essay published in 1946, Albert Einstein reflected on his days as a student of physics some fifty years earlier. He recalled his teachers with affection but, referring to exams, said, This coercion had such a deterring effect that after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. — Alfie Kohn

And roads, new roads probing endlessly, shamelessly, as though all that mattered was to be elsewhere. — Ian McEwan

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's. — David Shields

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world. — Patti Smith

The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate. — Alan Dershowitz

Pass the bone, kid pass the bone,
Let's get on this mission like Indiana Jones — GZA

And all of these together, as much as any campaign the Marine Corps has ever pursued, have brought an unrelenting, never-ceasing pride to all of us who have ever claimed the title of United States Marine — Jim Webb

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal. — John F. Kerry