Wisconsins Digital Library Quotes & Sayings

When did I know I was in love? I knew it the moment I realized that even the smallest room seemed so vastly empty when she was not near me. — Steve Maraboli

While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself. — Saint Basil

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else. — James Avery

Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read. — David Sedaris

Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life. — Joseph Addison

This house is a prison, a suburban Alcatraz. — Heather Demetrios

I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don't like it when an art form becomes stagnant. — Harvey Pekar

My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this. — Benigno Aquino III