Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

Andre Breton

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Anita Roddick

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

Andrew Wiles

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Anita Brookner

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Ambrose Bierce

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

Ambrose Bierce

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

Aesop

Little liberties are great offenses.

Richard K. Morgan

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

Alex Tabarrok

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

Alex Haley

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

E. M. Forster

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

Drew Barrymore

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Douglas MacArthur

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Donald T. Regan

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Dalai Lama

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

David Mamet

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Cole Porter

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

Daniel Webster

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

Dana Stabenow

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

He is firming up his support from liberal women.

Roger Vadim

From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.

The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.

Diane Paulus

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Marianne Williamson

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Clint Eastwood

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

Robert Jackson

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

We wanted to be able to take a librarian and turn them into a project manager.