Langsam Library Quotes & Sayings

His mom always said that 90 percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity. — William Ellery Channing

God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation, to manage it, to lovingly use it, to creatively order it ... They are environmentalists. Being deeply connected with their environment is who they are. For them to be anything else or to deny their divine responsibility to care for all that God has made would be to deny something that is at the core of their existence. This is why litter and pollution are spiritual issues. — Rob Bell

Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don't have a clue — Carl Henegan

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something. — Andy Warhol

God has given you a mission in life, and only you can fulfill it. — Rick Warren

I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped. — Laurie Halse Anderson

If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that! — Milton Jones

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down. — Tupac Shakur

When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me. — George Stevens

It was the doubt that knocked me over, Mina: the terrible doubt as to the reality of the whole thing. I felt impotent and in the dark. I did not know who or what to trust, not even the evidence of my own senses. So I tried to put it behind me and throw myself into my work, into what had hitherto been the groove of my life. But the groove no longer availed me, for I now mistrusted myself. — Syrie James