"The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder."

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Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.8, Random House

Elizabeth McCracken

#Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Library Quotes

“We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.”
“There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.”
“It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.”
“War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion of confidence, of tension, of human rights abuses, really, of so many in areas whose traditional water supplies have been controlled and depleted by occupational authorities. That must stop if we're going to be able to develop a climate for peace.”
“For quite a while I called myself a workaholic. I was proud of that label. Then one day it hit me; a workaholic is a label for an unproductive person.”
“There is the music of Heaven in all things.”
“Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thouÂsand men.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. V, 1938.
“If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength, you tire. If you tire, you die”

Source : "Saulo Ribeiro: 'We Should Drop The 'Brazilian' in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu'". Jits Magazine Interview (translated from French), www.bjjee.com. February 11, 2016.

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