„What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.“
— Archibald Macleish American poet and Librarian of Congress 1892 - 1982
"The Premise Of Meaning" in American Scholar (5 June 1972)
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„Alan Shepard was a great man, a great leader. We were pioneers. If you are an explorer, what more can you ask than to travel into space.“
— Alan Shepard American astronaut 1923 - 1998
About, Edgar Mitchell — reported in St. Petersburg Times staff (July 23, 1998) "Alan Shepard Jr. 1923-1998 - Space pioneer", St. Petersburg Times, p. 1A.
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„No man is more of a stranger to you than you are to him. Receive him with trust.“
— Neamat Imam, book The Black Coat
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„The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.“
— Henrik Ibsen Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet 1828 - 1906
Context: The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. The great secret of action and victory is to be capable of living your life without ideals. Such is the sum of the whole world's wisdom.
As quoted in The Ibsen Calendar : A Quotation from the Works of Henrik Ibsen for Every Day (1913) by C. A. Arfwedson
„Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion“
— Wilhelm Reich, book Listen, Little Man!
Listen, Little Man! (1948), Context: You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.
„What better place to kill time than a library?“
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
„There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.“
— Joyce Carol Oates, Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
„Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.“
— John Waters American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer 1946
„Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.“
— Anne Herbert (writer) American journalist 1952
"The Next Whole Earth Catalog", (1980), p 331. http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/2001-February/035270.html (Derived from the Gilbert Shelton quote, "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."
„No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility.“
— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961
Nobel Prize Speech (1954), Context: No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
„Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.“
— Lucille Ball American actress and businesswoman 1911 - 1989
Quoted in Eleanor Harris, The Real Story of Lucille Ball, ch. 1 (1954)
„There is more joy in giving than in receiving.“
— Pope Benedict XVI 265th Pope of the Catholic Church 1927
2008, Closing Mass (19 July 2008), Never doubt the truth of our Lord's promise that whatever we give him of our creativity, our resources, our persons, will come back to us in abundance.
„Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.“
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr., The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book
