Quotes & Sayings About Friends Ditching You For Their Boyfriend

Public libraries have succumbed to the same pressures that have overwhelmed the basic cultural functions of museums and universities, aims that should remain what they were, not because the old ways are always better but because in this case they were the right ones: the sustaining of standards, the preservation of quality, the conservation of literacy's history, the education of the heart, eye and mind. Now libraries devote far too much of their restricted space, and their limited budget, to public amusement. It is a fact of philistine life that amusement is where the money is. — William H Gass

The techno-political thriller and the romance novel serve as antidotes to the imagination rather than stimulants to it. For this reason they make for ideal reading in airports and airplanes. They effectively shut down the imagination by doing all its work for it. They leave the spirit or the soul - and ambiguity, for that matter - out of the equation. By shutting down the imagination, genre novels perform a useful service to the anxious air traveler by reducing his or her ability to speculate. For the most part, people on airplanes, and here I include myself, would rather not use their speculative imaginations at all; one consequence of this situation is that great poetry is virtually unreadable during turbulence, when the snack cart has been put away and the seat belts fastened. Enough anxiety is associated with air travel without Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus making it worse. — Charles Baxter

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. — Ruben Hinojosa

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life. — John Leguizamo

Take my television. Take my computer. Take my cellphone. Take my music. But don't ever touch my books. — Kristen Darling

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray. — George W. Bush

If everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos. — Elin Hilderbrand

My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. — Tehyi Hsieh

I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say. — Latrell Sprewell

A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win. — M.F. Moonzajer

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. — Edna St. Vincent Millay