Libertos Quotes & Sayings

A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage. — Ogden Nash

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. — Felix Dennis

I shall always be a pirate. — Jade Parker

A weight lands on me, and a strong doubt that I will not be able to fully commit to the ideas of this strange religion out here in the cold north. I look at the girl's pale skin flushed slightly across her high cheekbones and wonder if she, perhaps, is Katherine Redford and the article we read was wrong. Maybe her ruse is an old woman but she is, in fact, a young girl. There is something more comforting in that idea, to be healed by a child uninterested in fame or money. A girl as young as her would not seek to inveigle or exploit hopeless people such as us, but an adult might. — Annie Fisher

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it. — Jonah Goldberg

There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense. — John Steinbeck

Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God. — Rumi

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work. — Harvey Cushing

We just had a near-life experience! — Chuck Palahniuk

Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other. — G.K. Chesterton