Alexander Liberman Quotes

#1. Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.

Saul Bellow

#2. I pause in garages, sheds and roofless barns touching things, identifying objects once secretly coveted.

Tom Gillaspy

#3. I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Willa Cather

#4. All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

Alexander Liberman

#5. Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature.

Charles K. Kao

#6. In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#7. Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

Thomas Frank

#8. If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

Roscoe Pound

#10. I love the ritual of drawing up lists, and there's something wonderfully satisfying about ticking tasks off.

Shaida Kazie Ali

#11. The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

Martha Roby

#12. Reading is not passive. It is only when the reader brings his/her own experiences to the work and breathes life into the author's words that they consummate the relationship and together bring the story to life.

Chuck Miceli