Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deb Caletti

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Dennis Chavez

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

Edward Gibbon

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

William Shakespeare

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

Charles Dickens

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Charles Spurgeon

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Al Seckel

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

David McCullough

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David Krumholtz

The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.

David Strathairn

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Chang-Rae Lee

I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.

Charles Fourier

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

Bill Maher

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

We're so excited. This is the first real new money for libraries from the province in a long time.

We're going to get a new library here.

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.

William Shakespeare

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

Bill Moyers

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Bertrand Russell

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Cass Sunstein

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

Carl Barat

But, you never know when The Libertines is going to come along.

Billy Sunday

Personal liberty is not personal license.

It will also move people to Crosby, Dayton, Liberty and Beaumont like it was originally designed.

Berthold Auerbach

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

This is where Liberal pork comes to rest.

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.