Truth Beauty Library Quotes & Sayings

The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by unknown authors who wrote and edited at different times with widely divergent aims. This sacred work of so many epochs and so many hands contains some facts of provable history, some stories of unprovable myth, some poetry of soaring beauty, and many passages of unintelligible, perhaps coded, perhaps simply mistranslated, mystery. Most of it is written not to recount events but to promote a higher truth - the relationship of one people and their God. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I'm not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea. — Brandi Carlile

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often. — Harold Prince

If I see darkness in men of God I bring light to them. — Sunday Adelaja

Would I be telling them in order to enrich their education or to enrich myself? — Kevin Jennings

To stand against the Shadow so long as iron is hard and stone abides.
To defend the Malkieri while one drop of blood remains.
To avenge what cannot be defended. — Robert Jordan

Fighting with a woman who has set her mind on something is harder than fighting a battalion of armed men The woman is more strategic mentally — Donna McDonald

Don't Just Talk About What You can Do; Make It Happen! — Rick Levine

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? — Lily Tomlin

Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms. — Elizabeth Rudnick

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler. — Christine Keeler

We can stage our own act on the planet-build our cities on its plains, dam its rivers, plant its topsoils-but our meaningful activity scarcely covers the terrain. We do not use the songbirds, for instance. We do not eat many of them; we cannot befriend them; we cannot persuade them to eat more mosquitoes or plant fewer weed seeds. We can only witness them-whoever they are. If we were not here, they would be songbirds falling in the forest. If we were not here, material events like the passage of seasons would lack even the meager meanings we are able to muster for them. The show would play to an empty house, as do all those falling stars which fall in the daytime. That is why I take walks: to keep an eye on things. — Annie Dillard

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do. — Shah Rukh Khan

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed. — Joyce Meyer

Those upper classes, to rule, needed to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to their own wealth or power, at the expense of slaves, Indians, and poor whites. This bought loyalty. And to bind that loyalty with something more powerful even than material advantage, the ruling group found, in the 1760s and 1770s, a wonderfully useful device. That device was the language of liberty and equality, which could unite just enough whites to fight a Revolution against England, without ending either slavery or inequality. — Howard Zinn

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. — Studs Terkel

The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or a time to celebrate the end of the struggle. The threat is not going away. The enemy has not lost interest ... Fundamentally, we're in a struggle about ideology. Terrorists want to remake the world in their own image and it is the image that is intolerant of the kinds of institutions that we cherish. — Michael Chertoff

If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done? — Lily Tomlin

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling. — Bill Peet