Poynton Library Quotes

#1. I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.

Alafair Burke

#2. I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.

Bernie Siegel

#3. What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.

Steve Prefontaine

#4. Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

Mary Matalin

#5. Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

George Trumbull Ladd

#6. Let's downplay religion and lets begin to work hard on who God wants us to become.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Kindness is a net without thread; surround everyone with it.

Debasish Mridha

#8. You can't dread what you can't experience. The only death we experience is that of other people. That's as bad as it gets. And that's bad enough, surely.

Tom Rachman

#9. Remember the Ladies.

Abigail Adams

#10. Time can be cruel if you don't use it wisely ~ Imani Wisdom, Zion's Road: A Love Story about Faith and Redemption.

Imani Wisdom

#11. The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.

Cesare Beccaria

#12. I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.

Cate Blanchett

#13. All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#14. the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful.

Stefan Zweig

#15. Hell hath no fury like a bunch of raggy women with scissors in their hands and hot wax at their disposal.

J.B. Heller