Enumerative Bibliography Quotes & Sayings

Unequipped to hold their own in the ferociously competitive world of White America, in which even the language is foreign to them, the Navajos sink ever deeper into the culture of poverty, exhibiting all of the usual and well-known symptoms: squalor, unemployment or irregular and ill-paid employment, broken families, disease, prostitution, crime, alcoholism, lack of education, too many children, apathy and demoralization, and various forms of mental illness, including evangelical Protestantism. Whether in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the barrios of Caracas, the ghettos of Newark, the mining towns of West Virginia or the tarpaper villages of Gallup, Flagstaff and Shiprock, it's the same the world over - one big wretched family sequestered in sullen desperation, pawed over by social workers, kicked around by the cops and prayed over by the missionaries. — Edward Abbey

Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today. — Walther Bothe

Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves. — Natalie Massenet

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity. — Herbert Hoover

The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shine thy light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. — Mahatma Gandhi

My wandering imagination never gives up on me and always finds ways to explore what my emotions entail. — Chimnese Davids

Had he imagined things in Charlotte that had never been there? Had he invented virtues for he, to add luster to her staggering looks? ... Perhaps he had created a Charlotte in her own image who had never existed outside his own besotted mind, but what of it? He had loved the real Charlotte too, the woman who had stripped herself bare in front of him, demanding whether he could still love her if she did this, if she confessed to this, if she treated him like this..until finally she had found his limit and beauty, rage and tears had been insufficient to hold him, and she had fled into the arms of another man. — Robert Galbraith

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage. — Dominic Monaghan

Luckily, the forest was so dense that the two escaped without injury, though one of the men peed in his pants. — Liu Cixin

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. — J. Patrick Lewis

The sage puts herself last and is first. — Lao-Tzu

When you really know someone, you can't hate him. — Orson Scott Card