Mauney Library Quotes & Sayings

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it. — Dick Dale

As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe. — Rick Riordan

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. — Leonard Ravenhill

I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears. — Shahin Najafi

I usually look in my eyes to tell the truth of how I'm feeling that day. — Naomie Harris

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git. — Paddy Ashdown

The first source of art, then, is akin to the display of colors and plumage on the male animal in mating time; it lies in the desire to adorn and beautify the body. And just as self-love and mate-love, overflowing, pour out their surplus of affection upon nature, so the impulse to beautify passes from the personal to the external world. The soul seeks to express its feeling in objective ways, through color and form; art really begins when men undertake to
beautify things. — Will Durant

One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed. — George Meany

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events. — David Riesman

I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry. — Edward Lampert

Stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people'
read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it. — Sylvia Plath

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire. — John Connolly

The country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good. — Barack Obama