Pettee Square Quotes & Sayings

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. — Michael Moore

Perhaps we still have a basically superstitious tendency to associate failure with dishonesty and guilt - failure being interpreted as "punishment." Even if a man starts out with good intentions, if he fails we tend to think he was somehow "at fault." If he was not guilty, he was at least "wrong." And "being wrong" is something we have not yet learned to face with equanimity and understanding. We either condemn it with god-like disdain or forgive it with god-like condescension. We do not manage to accept it with human compassion, humility and identification. Thus we never see the one truth that would help us begin to solve our ethical and political problems: that we are all more or less wrong, that we are all at fault, all limited and obstructed by our mixed motives, our self-deception, our greed, our self-righteousness and our tendency to aggressivity and hypocrisy. — Thomas Merton

I feel like I am alone when I am in the presence of those I love. It is so freeing and comfortable, you become one with them. — Zola Jesus

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter? — Khalil Gibran

Such grace is never held in abeyance, never earned or deserved. It is not given to some and not to others. Grace is ever present; it is only our openness to it that comes and goes. In one sense, The Way of Liberation is a means of opening up to grace. — Adyashanti

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do. — Oscar Wilde

It's really important, obviously, for people to realize that it is a very small percentage, only 1 percent of our total economy, of our total budget, and I think that's important for people to know. But I also know that Americans are very generous and that many, many Americans are proud that their taxpayer dollar has saved lives in Africa through the president's malaria initiative or through PEPFAR, the emergency relief plan for AIDS. — Laura Bush

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system. — Edwin Powell Hubble

And when one of her girlfriends asked why she loved him she answered that most men ran away from an inferno. But men like Ove ran into it. — Fredrik Backman

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets. — Bessie Coleman

When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in. — Sakyong Mipham

Everything that we've been through makes me realize that love is about finding the right person in this cold, oppressive world that loves all the wrong things about you. Everything you try to hide, they accept. And I know he accepts me. — Calia Read

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed. — John Keats