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Gail Honeyman

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ALBERT SCHWEITZER Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in mai...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in mai...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.
GAIL HONEYMAN Although it’s good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it’s also extremely important to ...
GAIL HONEYMAN You can't have too much dog in a book.
GAIL HONEYMAN ...In primary school, sports day was the one day of the year when the less academically gifted stude...
GAIL HONEYMAN I find lateness exceptionally rude; it’s so disrespectful, implying unambiguously that you conside...
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GAIL HONEYMAN Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that there’s something ve...
GAIL HONEYMAN Time only blunts the pain of loss. It doesn’t erase it.
GAIL HONEYMAN There was, it seemed, no Eleanor-shaped social hole for me to slot
GAIL HONEYMAN Did men ever look in the mirror, I wondered, and find themselves wanting in deeply fundamental ways?...
GAIL HONEYMAN I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away,...
GAIL HONEYMAN Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.
GAIL HONEYMAN I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.
GAIL HONEYMAN In the end, what matters is this: I survived.
GAIL HONEYMAN In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
HENRY JAMES In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.
TIM WILLOCKS Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In ...
JODI RELL Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In ...
JODI RELL Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
VACLAV HAVEL In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my ow...
SUN MYUNG MOON I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal s...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE You might plan how you sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Plan...
AMEN MUFFLER Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
ALBERT CAMUS Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
ALBERT CAMUS The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselve...
ALEXIS CARREL Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential ...
GABRIELLE UNION The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been...
RICHARD DAWKINS Remarkable how often there's a good reason that masks the real reason.
K.J. PARKER The most painful thing is losing Someone who was always beside you...!
KAWTHAR KOUKOU Yesterday ended last night.
JOHN C. MAXWELL The path of destiny pulls you forward. It exhumes you from a state of being and propels you towards ...
ADDISON MOORE Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
ALEX FLINN The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the ...
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL There is nothing worse that could happen to a person than his awakening to the reality of life as th...
ANUJ SOMANY I often hear or read: “Time is money.” If that would be true, everyone would have exactly the sa...
EMA DAN Money is just a means of survival, stop treating it like a God.
EMA DAN In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced Engl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I subscribe to the anthropic principle: there are an infinite number of infinite universes, each wit...
WILLIAM DONELSON A conviction of self-worth and passion for ideals fuse in a life attitude that is positive, free, no...
BILL JAY Reality is a challenge.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Truth is nothing but a formulated perception of experienced reality.
L.J. VANIER There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of spe...
MARTIN BUBER By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live...
MANDY MOORE It would be perfect if everyone who makes love, is in love, but this is simply an unrealistic expect...
C. JOYBELL C. Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminati...
EDMUND BURKE Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discrimin...
DAVID TRIMBLE Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if p...
NICHOLAS MEYER Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgment of the power ...
CHRISTINA BALDWIN The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assu...
PHILLIP E. JOHNSON Idea is an introduction to creativity that gives birth to reality.
STEPHEN MAGNUS !!!.. "That" happiness most of us searched for (and we thought it’s about getting a person but it)...
SYED NOUMAN ZAIDI Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
JIMMY CARTER Balance your life in favor of principle, over privileged flavor.
SCOTTIE SOMERS The American Library Association (ALA) is saddened by the tragic loss of life and widespread damage ...
MICHAEL GORMAN Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole col...
KEN LIU The National Cancer Institute wants to make certain the results of clinical research are rapidly dis...
ANDREW VON ESCHENBACH We have been working with Dean Gail and the Office of the Dean of Students to make sure that the nee...
DAVID ANDERSEN There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of...
MARTIN BUBER Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
KARIN SLAUGHTER Libraries are our friends.
NEIL GAIMAN My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wa...
PETER GOLKIN If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.
E. LOCKHART We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition ...
JOHN CALLAHAN To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we pro...
JAY WOODMAN There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
ALEXIS TOCQUEVILLE Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire...
SIDNEY SHELDON We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things ...
CHRIS BOHJALIAN The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life com...
JAMES A. MICHENER In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in fo...
RAY BRADBURY Guys will NEVER understand what it is like to be a girl and all the pain we have to deal with theref...
MEGAN WILSON When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull ...
SHERRILYN KENYON People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can w...
SHERRILYN KENYON The impeccable watchmaker geared the noble self to suffer. The ineluctable part of being human is pe...
KILROY J. OLDSTER People don't change, it is ourselves who tells us to change our attitude in a comfortable way.
PETER ALMOJUELA CHRISTENSEN ...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.

The first thing you ...
CARLA BUCKLEY The principle of compounding may not necessarily mean investing once & getting residual interest add...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
KATHERINE PARKINSON The more that science unravels about the wonder of life and the universe, the more i am in are of it...
RANYA TABARI IDLIBY Life is a journey between Perception and Reality!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Often dream creates imageries based on your emotional inclination.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Libraries are not made, they grow
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Libraries are not made, they grow.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent;...
WENDELL PHILLIPS I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and ench...
CRAIG HATKOFF That moment when time stands still and you wonder if reality isn't just a dream?
LEROY NELLIS II Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing...
L'WREN SCOTT Norman Foster understands how to design a bold urban icon while simultaneously enhancing the environ...
LARRY SILVERSTEIN You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with someth...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA ...There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
LEMONY SNICKET There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
LEMONY SNICKET It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but peopl...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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GAIL ANDERSEN We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacki...
GAIL ANDERSEN The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field.
GAIL ANDERSEN It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together.
GAIL ANDERSEN For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to ge...
GAIL COLLINS You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off...
GAIL COLLINS In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dram...
GAIL SHEEHY Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripateti...
GAIL COLLINS Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-3...
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