Quisenberry Library Quotes & Sayings

Why, so you can charm my panties off again? — Jill Shalvis

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations. — Thomas Huxley

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. — Henry James

Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt. — Roger Caras

Smartass is a latent idiot. — Toba Beta

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling. — Henry David Thoreau

Oh, cold world
I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain? Being grateful in times of distress does not mean that we are pleased with our circumstances. It does mean that through the eyes of faith we look beyond our present-day challenges. This is not a gratitude of the lips but of the soul. It is a gratitude that heals the heart and expands the mind. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf