Farahat Library Quotes & Sayings

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please! — William T. Wiley

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all. — Leonard Read

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. — Stephen R. Covey

Dark windows are often a very clear proof. — Bill Vaughan

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio because the pictures were better. — Alistair Cooke

(Visibility makes possible, but it also disciplines: disciplines gender, disciplines genre.) — Maggie Nelson

By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside. — Baba Hari Dass

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad. — Jose Bergamin

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing. — John Lyly

It never occurred to me that any of these pleasures were a reward for being a pretty good kid, any more than I needed to restructure my life just to avoid an eternity of being spit-roasted on a subterranean barbecue. If this sounds flip, smug, or disrespectful, it's not meant to be. Obviously, there is great wisdom, beauty, and relevance in millennia worth of collected theological teaching from around the world. The question I'm grappling with is: why didn't these big themes and major stick-and-carrot extremes resonate with me? I just never bought into the concept. Maybe I'm part of a small minority, but I don't think so. — Michael J. Fox