Gladstones Library Quotes & Sayings

Just like our eyes, our hearts have a way of adjusting to the dark. — Adam Stanley

Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
May look wrinkled and wet
And withered, and white as the snow,
But the taste of a thumb
Is the sweetest taste yet
(As only we thumb-sucker's know). — Shel Silverstein

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life. — Ricky Williams

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. — Maria Montessori

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged. — Mark Twain

He's the Wizard because he's magic. He mysteriously passes through locked doors. He seems to read minds. He's able to refuse dessert. And he can give me a hot flash with the touch of a fingertip. — Janet Evanovich

In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of their utter hatred, of their moral certainty that he was so beyond the bounds of what they could accept that he deserved not just a death but one of such brutality, such inhumanity, as would make the seraphs who burned Sodom bow their heads in cold respect? What is it like, I wonder, to learn the full capacity of hatred in a lesson hammered home with bone broken on wood and skin ripped on barbed wire? — Hal Duncan

I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib ... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up. — Mila Kunis

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it. — Felix Frankfurter

A thing is never seen as it really is. — Josef Albers

Yoko Ono, quite simply, did things that John Lennon did not dare. — Philip Norman

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe. — Ezra Koenig

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East. — Robert Foster Bennett