Eustache Demers Quotes & Sayings

A library is a hospital for the mind. - Anonymous — Alvin Toffler

There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal. — Samuel Johnson

The ecological situation is not a problem to be solved, but a wake-up call to a different way of being and relating. — Pat MacEnulty

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears. — Charles D. Broad

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship. — Michael Heseltine

Reference to the deadness of the past is a way of staking a claim on it. But historians must be open, as ethnographers try to be, to the shock of the unpredictability and difference of the past, which means open to the possibility of the past living in its insistence on telling its own story and so confounding us. Only in this way can the past teach us something new about ourselves, about the limits of our imaginings and ways of knowing, and even of our particular and distinctive ways of being human. — Robert A. Orsi

Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions. — Brad Sherman

Is it possible to fall in love with someone even when you're already in love with them? Because I'm pretty sure I just did. — Jessica Sorensen