Lickerish Library Quotes & Sayings

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms. — Elizabeth Olsen

Not everybody is gonna like every track on my record ever! — SonReal

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done. — William Temple

I know I do - teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home, began Meg, in the complaining tone again. — Louisa May Alcott

The labels on the little bottles and boxes do not tell you which one is the sleeping pill. Instead they have names, long strange names that slide out of shape while you are reading them. They sound like kings from history or alien planets. There are hundreds of them. — Paul Murray

Your view on the world is validated and verified daily. How is your view on the world working for you? — Tony Curl

It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were astonished every day. — Rebecca Solnit

London is like a cold dark dream sometimes. — Jean Rhys

They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes. — Swami Vivekananda

To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

In the lonely dark she goes again and again to that locked cupboard knowing that she holds the key, and frightened of the self she might find inside. — Frederick Anderson

Remember yourself always and everywhere. — G.I. Gurdjieff

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant. — Jacques Monod