Hertfordshire Libraries Quotes & Sayings

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered. — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

That as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind. — Laura Hillenbrand

I figured most of the best actors around 20 years old would all be at drama school, where they're tied up and contractually can't work, so I saw there must be a gap in the market for a young actor like me. — Matt Milne

He knocked his pipe out. His paper rustled to the floor and his spectacles slid own his nose. His hands, red and shiny, lay relaxed on his knee. He abandoned himself to the quietness and the warmth of sun and fire. Autumn was a strange paradoxical time of the year. It was the season when he was happiest and yet it was the season when he was most vulnerable and most aware, and that was not always a happiness. Yet he liked autumn. — Elizabeth Goudge

She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream. — Gordon Lightfoot

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That — Michael Lewis

I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe. — David Lagercrantz

Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei; light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can. — David Mitchell