Truth Beauty Library Quotes

#1. The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman

#2. Time spent in the company of remarkable men is time well spent.

Ian McDonald

#3. I'm no longer interested in the possible.

Robert Kroetsch

#4. The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

Sebastian Horsley

#5. People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

Terry Goodkind

#6. His eyes looked directly at her, and she felt something jump inside. The eyes, the voice, the face, the silver hair, the easy way he moved his body, old ways, disturbing ways, ways that draw you in. Ways that whisper to you in the final moment before sleep comes, when the barriers have fallen.

Robert James Waller

#7. When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?

Lily Tomlin

#9. Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#10. Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#11. If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Lily Tomlin

#12. Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

John Edgar Wideman

#13. If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.

Louie Gohmert

#14. The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Billy Sunday

#15. I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of emphaty and humanity in that process.

Jaron Lanier

#16. It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them.

Steven Magee

#17. Goodness - what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.

Marcus Aurelius

#18. All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Studs Terkel