Reshelving Library Quotes & Sayings

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight. — Saul Bellow

In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward. — Amy Tan

If you like Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Vampires, this is for you! (Kathi Humphries (Design) on 'ORPHANS - Time is running out' by Ian Dewar) — Kathi Humphries

His gaze was unblinking. Lacking eyelids will do that to a person. — Jeaniene Frost

I have a life. A real one. And not all of it is with you. — Richard North Patterson

But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever. — Alexander McCall Smith

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts. — Roger Wicker

I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career ... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting. — Cara Delevingne

You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it. — Angelique Kidjo

None of us can choose where we shall love... — Susan Kay

Tell her parents they made a big mistake calling the police. Call off the dogs," said the caller, "or we'll hurt Madison. Permanently. If you back off, she'll stay alive and well, but either way, the Tylers will never see their daughter — James Patterson

Time, that aged nurse, rocked me to patience. — John Keats

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.' — David Eller