Cmu Bookstore Quotes

#1. It's ok to be gifted at using people if you're using them for good.

Penny Reid

#2. The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.

Andrew Levkoff

#3. It was pure privilege that determined where so many of us ended up in life, Isabel reflected; it was nothing to do with merit, it was privilege. Or, putting it another way, it was a matter of accident, or luck.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. When someone uses Philosophy as an indispensable tool for tackling Theology and knows no other way for approaching that scripture-related Science, then you must have already figured out by now that he is a gentile who is standing right before you.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#5. I think of what Mamey told me long ago: there are many ways to love and be loved. Too bad it's taken most of a lifetime for me to understand what that means.

Christina Baker Kline

#6. Do. Do? Oh, you never do anything except the things I tell you. You're always wringing your hands and looking sorry, but I always have to think of the things to do .

Winifred Holtby

#7. Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?

Ehud Olmert

#8. Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. As Luther said, "God does not need our good works; our neighbor does.

Michael S. Horton

#10. The end of every maker is himself.

Thomas Aquinas

#11. I'd love to be a rockstar.

Tyler Posey

#12. His cheekbones also gave his face a harsh character; but there was no harshness in the eyes which, looking at the world from under their tawny eyebrows, gave the impression of a man ever alert to greet a redeeming instinct in others but often disappointed.

James Joyce

#13. Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

John C. Bogle