Ottawa Public Library Quotes & Sayings

Right is what all this is about," Roland said. "But if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. — Stephen King

The mind is its own place; she carried her hell about with her. — Aldous Huxley

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'
'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose
a god who simply is. — Stanislaw Lem

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD. — Alastair Wood

It is generally supposed that Conservatives are usually old people, and that those in favour of change are the young. That is not quite correct. Usually, Conservatives are young people: those who want to live but who do not think about how to live, and have not time to think, and therefore take as a model for themselves a way of life that they have seen. — Leo Tolstoy

Life is a four-letter word. — Lenny Bruce

I believe it was Sartre who said, "Hell is other people," and I suspect he wrote that after spending an hour with overinvolved parents who won't stop yelling at coaches, instructors, or crying four-year-olds who really just want a snow cone. — Jenny Lawson

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape. — Beth Ditto

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority — Mahatma Gandhi

Grace is not a matter of God's making up the difference, but of God's providing all the "cost" of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. — Jerry Bridges

When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society. — Bernie Sanders

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already. — James Branch Cabell