Melvil Dewey Quotes
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
Melvil Dewey
Quotes to Explore
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Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?
K. P. Yohannan
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The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.
Martin Heidegger
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Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?
Buwei Yang Chao
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Next, take a look at the quality of the people who surround you. Do these people back you emotionally, or not? If they don't back you, are they at least passive? If not, get rid of them. Sometimes it is hard to drop off your mates at the great bus stop of life. But remember, your energy will only rise in direct relationship to the number of things you are able to get rid of - not to the things you acquire. By getting rid of things, attitudes, encumbrances, and blocks of one kind or another, things fly.
Stuart Wilde
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God uses rescued people to rescue people.
Christine Caine
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When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.
Euzhan Palcy
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Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.
Cecelia Ahern
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Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
Archibald Cox
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Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
Ivo Andric
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We'll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
Bob Goff
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman
