Bovingdon Library Quotes

#1. Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.

Terry Waite

#2. If you find a need, reach out to help.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. If you (the press) lie about us, I will hit you, Kurt will shoot you, and we both will sue.

Courtney Love

#4. I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

Bono

#5. Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

I.L. Peretz

#6. We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

Mason Cooley

#7. I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes.

Mark Fuhrman

#8. Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

Zinedine Zidane

#9. Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

James Morcan

#10. It is equally vain," she thought, "for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.

Virginia Woolf

#11. It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Voltaire

#13. I like to drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on the phone?

Sharon Stone

#14. It's something to be Great, It's nothing to be Famous

Wale

#15. Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Oscar Wilde