"Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Book Quotes #Choices Quotes #Library Quotes

“We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.”

Source : Cressida Cowell (2017). “How to Train Your Dragon: How To Train Your Dragon”, p.80, Hachette UK
“Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.”
“I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.”
“I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.”
“Bacon , Locke , Descartes , Hume , and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.”
“A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.”

Source : Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.219, Georg Olms Verlag
“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
“We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.”

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