Solihull Library Quotes & Sayings

Thus, a mindset of responsiveness considers time efficiency from the customer's or requestor's point of view rather than cost-efficiency from the service provider's point of view. — Sriram Narayan

But karma is not in fact a material accumulation, and does not depend on externals; rather its power to condition us depends on the obstacles that impede our knowledge. If we compare our karma and the ignorance that creates it to a dark room, knowledge of the primordial state would be like a lamp, which, when lit in the room, at once causes the darkness to disappear, enlightening everything. In the same way, if one has the presence of the primordial state, one can overcome all hindrances in an instant. — Namkhai Norbu

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past — Kurt Vonnegut

The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water. — Ken MacLeod

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. — John Wooden

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die. — Thomas Campion

Religion was no cure for dysfunction. — Marjorie M. Liu

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! — Michel De Montaigne

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure. — Terry Eagleton

Encounters are after all merely future farewells and he could live with that as long as they both got happy endings. Even if it meant they didn't get it together. — BeccaAmon

Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them ... everyone deserves a chance ... you can never let yourself be a victim. — Jack Welch

No one will be more brutal than me. No one will be more ruthless. And I will never stop fighting. — Kiersten White

And of a Sunday swarm the folk
Under the honeysuckle vine,
Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke,
The sun, the melody, the wine. — Theophile Gautier

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. — Corliss Lamont