#lib

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #lib




I am a conservative. It’s like being a preservative, but with a backwards shelf life. I conserve the values of the past, and I keep them there so I can behave liberally now .


Bauvard


#funny #humor #liberal #funny

He's attracted to the smell of manure," Felicity says. "You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love.


Libba Bray


#humor #libba-bray #rebel-angels #humor

I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo." -Liberty Jones


Lisa Kleypas


#humor #liberty #sugar-daddy #humor

I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.


Charlaine Harris


#humor #library #humor

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#imagination

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.


Maud Hart Lovelace


#escape #imagination #libraries #library #reading

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.


Assata Shakur


#oppression #resistance #oppression

It can't drag on this way much longer," she said to herself. "One evening he'll whistle under my window, I'll go down by a ladder or a knotted rope and he will carry me away on a motorcycle, off to a den where his subjects will be assembled. He'll say: 'Here is your new Queen.' And... and... it will be terrible!" viii. Their Queen is away and anarchy reigns! The Journal said so! How grand to be Queen, with a red ribbon and a revolver...


Colette


#anarchy

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues." [Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction]


William Shakespeare


#gossip #libel #public-opinion #reputation #rumor

People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says otherwise. --libraryavengers.org


Library Avengers


#discipline