Notranjost Quotes & Sayings

One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives for self while the other acts to redeem society. — Joseph Campbell

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us. — Marvin Hamlisch

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years' War and the Opium Wars and the Dirty War, the ideas of Simone Weil and Lao-Tzu, information on building your sailboat or dissolving your marriage, fictional worlds and books to equip the reader to reenter the real world. They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens onto another world, which might be the magic that all those children's books were alluding to, and a library is a Milky Way of worlds. — Rebecca Solnit

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found. — Mary Leakey

I scarcely remember counting upon happiness - I look not for it if it be not in the present hour - nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel. — John Keats

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge. — Adriana Trigiani

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses. — Don DeLillo

Life is all about what you wish for. If you believe it, you can achieve it". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Not so many moons ago, he had been able to run to the summit of the temple without losing a single breath; however, now he felt like an old camel that laboured under a load of corn. Years pass so quickly, and the dreams of youth are lost forever. — Alan Kinross