Pirita Raamatukogu Quotes & Sayings

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. — George Orwell

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists. — Franz Grillparzer

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. — John Updike

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information. — Dick Wolf

To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
[Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.] — Sallust

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all. — Marilynne Robinson

Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version of yourself to believe in, which one is true. — Caroline Knapp

the skin like velvet over steel, — Roan Parrish

Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow. — Ron Kaufman

I am a Broadway theatre guy ... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons — Jeremy Jordan

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information. — David Strathairn

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. — Saint Augustine

Only when life is quiet, Empress," Oli said. "When the battle comes our way or we see a need, we will pick up our swords and fight beside the bravest of men, even knowing we may fall. But once all is well again... that's when the darkness comes. Then we sit in silence and struggle to grasp our peace the best we can. — Jill Williamson

there is no beauty without some strangeness. — Edgar Allan Poe

God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul. — William Gurnall