Richard De Bury Quotes

#1. You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.

Richard De Bury

#2. Too much freedom is dangerous to those who cannot cope with the responsibilities that accompany independence.

Anonymous

#3. I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much, it takes a certain mystery away from the interpretation that is very important for the audience to have. The audience should have their own interpretation.

Joseph M. Kahn

#4. Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

Richard De Bury

#5. If you get to the end of your life and you have regrets that you could have done better, then you blew it.

Francis Slakey

#6. Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

Richard De Bury

#7. Sometimes you have to beat the Republicans before you beat the Democrats.

Matt Kibbe

#8. Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

Richard De Bury

#9. A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

Richard De Bury

#10. I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

Viggo Mortensen

#11. For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

Daniel H. Wilson

#12. Again, all who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books.

Richard De Bury

#13. Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money.
If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide;
If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Richard De Bury

#14. Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for.

Colleen Hoover

#15. Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

Beth Comstock

#16. In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,
in books I see what is yet to come ...
All things decay and pass with time ...
all fame would fall victim to oblivion
if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them.

Richard De Bury Translated By E.C.Thomas