Spaightwood Quotes & Sayings

Let understanding, compassion, and kindness be the foundation of our religion and Earth be our place of worship. — Charles F. Glassman

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books. — Zadie Smith

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. — Charles Spurgeon

Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain ... It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books? — Holly Black

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up — Heather Brewer

Children get dealt grossly unequal hands, but that is all the more reason to treat them equally in school, Chris thought. "I think the cruelest form of prejudice is ... if I ever said, 'Clarence is poor, so I'll expect less of him than Alice.' Maybe he won't do what Alice does. But I want his best." She knew that precept wasn't as simple as it sounded. Treating children equally often means treating them very differently. But it also means bringing the same moral force to bear on all of them, saying, in effect, to Clarence that you matter as much as Alice and won't get away with not working, and to Alice that you won't be allowed to stay where you are either. — Tracy Kidder

A professional who didn't miss his target even in his death. If your boss had half your sense of humour, this Pakiland of yours would be a much livelier place. — Mohammed Hanif

We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in its first faint vibrations, the everlasting violence of that double passion with which God hates and loves the world. — G.K. Chesterton

I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score. — Dan Gable

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity. — Jamaica Kincaid

Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Really young kids are into guitars. — Charlie Simpson

The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated. — Milton Friedman

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. — Arthur Schopenhauer