Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

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.

Andre Breton

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

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.

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.

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.

Paul Wolfowitz

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

Michael Rosen

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

Maajid Nawaz

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

James Heckman

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.

Bob Richardson

presents all the options; we show the library of tea.

Abdullah Ocalan

Our movement is the liberation movement of the Turkish people,

David Hockney

Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

Roger Vadim

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

Bill Watterson

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

Bjarne Stroustrup

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries

Bjarne Stroustrup

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Bill Gates

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

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.