Quotes of: Martin-luther-king Keyword

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

The Library at Night

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

The Library at Night

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

The Library at Night

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

The Library at Night

Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.

The Library at Night

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons

Hinter dem westlichen Konzept einer Idealstadt verbirgt sich die Idee der Privilegierung. Moreau hätte ihm ohne Zweifel zugestimmt.

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.

Harvey Mansfield

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Robert Fitzgerald

And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch.

Sibel Edmonds

Let us be honest we have praised Angulimala, will make no difference If you convey my salute to Amrapali.

Suman Pokhrel

In this atmosphere Where you have to go perennially crazy only to survive, Which auspicious moment should I choose to become mad?

Suman Pokhrel

When this flood blocks the road I am worried more by my soil getting washed, than by getting late to reach my destination.

Suman Pokhrel

The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.

Thomas Cleary

If I may paraphrase 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Thomas Henry Huxley

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.

Miller Williams

If you say 'anti-aging,' how anti would it have to be, really? My guess is not much. Any amount of sunscreen could be considered anti-aging.

Erin McKean

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

Erin McKean

Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles.

Erin McKean

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

Erin McKean