Provoking Quotes - Page 2

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.

Libraries are our friends.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

Data really powers everything that we do.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Libraries are the future of reading.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.