Lydeen Library Quotes & Sayings

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

We thought Red Lung was as bad as it could get.
We were wrong. — Julie Kagawa

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood. — Zhou Weihui

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life's work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart. — Kenesaw Mountain Landis

All over the world God is opening doors of opportunity, making it possible for us to take the Gospel to millions who have never heard of Christ. — Billy Graham

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow. — Djuna Barnes

The figures of rhetoric are the beauties of all poems we have ever read. Without them we would merely be us: eating, sleeping, manufacturing, and dying. With them everything can be glorious. For though we have nothing to say, we can at least say it well. — Mark Forsyth

Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story. — Edgar Guest

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well. — Chip Kidd

I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time. — Ben Shahn

Children, we should consider every name as the name of our beloved deity. Imagine that He is the one that appears in all the different forms. If our beloved deity is Krishna, then while chanting the names of the Divine Mother, imagine that Krishna has come before us as Devi. We should not think that since we are chanting Devi's names, Krishna might not like it. These differences exist only in our world, not in His. — Mata Amritanandamayi