Eugene Public Library Quotes & Sayings

They showed considerable anxiety because they were in the process of loving beauty. — Rollo May

When a thing standeth long in salt, it is salt, and if any thing stand in a stinking place, it is made stinking; and if any thing standeth with a bold man, it is made bold, and if it stand with a fearefull man, it is made fearefull. — Avicenna

Before you can write a single sentence, you must first create an entire world to support it. — Adam Santo

The ideal of all education, all training, should be this man-making. But, instead of that, we are always trying to polish up the outside. What use in polishing up the outside when there is no inside? The end and aim of all training is to make the man grow. The man who influences, who throws his magic, as it were, upon his fellow-beings, is a dynamo of power, and when that man is ready, he can do anything and everything he likes; that personality put upon anything will make it work. — Swami Vivekananda

I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity. — Ken Kutaragi

A nation's laws must be virtuous,
even when its inhabitants are not.
A nation's rulers must be faithful to God,
even when their subjects are not. — Matshona Dhliwayo