Jurandir Penate Quotes

#1. There's so much fear running our lives that we forget to be human when it really counts.

Rodney Yee

#2. Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

#3. Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

Guy Browning

#4. Don't think of me as a librarian. Think of me as a mad scientist; this is my secret laboratory.

Kami Garcia

#5. An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

Malcolm Forbes

#6. Pekka Rollins couldn't count the threats he'd heard, the men he'd killed, or the men he'd seen die, but the look in Brekker's eye still sent a chill slithering up his spine. Some wrathful thing in this boy was beginning to get loose, and Rollin's didn't want to be around when it slipped its leash.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

Peg Bracken

#8. The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

Christian Lous Lange

#9. What can educators do to foster real intelligence?..We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

David W. Orr

#10. Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.

John Wooden