Quotation Explorer - 'Ok'

When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing face to face with God, there is no place where a mirror is not. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Annabelle, I'm going to kill you!" I cried, frowning at the mess. Then I glanced down the stairway and gasped.It looked like someone had beaten me to it. - Cleo Coyle

If you are looking for answers for your life, know that the answers are within you. When you close your eyes, and focus on your inner God (meditate), you will know what to do. Trust yourself! - Camilla Dorand

I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person. - Nathalie M. Llanto

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. - Charles Caleb Colton

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. - Sir William Osler

Success isn't measured by the position you reach in life: it's measured by the obstacles you overcome. - Booker T. Washington

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston S. Churchill

Well, now,if little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving you little by little.If suddenlyyou forget medo not look for me,for I shall already have forgotten you. - Pable Neruda

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.The one that's out always looks the best - Will Rogers

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously. - Kevin Bacon

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G.K. Chesterton

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke - Vincent Van Gogh

It's okay, we can go back from this." It comes out of his mouth so kind - he means it - and it just makes me feel worse. That he can kiss me like this and change everything, but still promise me nothing has to change because I can't promise him anything. - Courtney Summers

You're not broken beyond repair there is hope. There is a God who knows all the pain you endure and will heal, protect and rejuvenate you. - Pauline Seaport

Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice. - Elizabeth Brooks

Joy is not something you look for, it is simply something you have to choose to apply. - Réné Gaudette

Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. - Ernest Hemingway

I always looked for someone who can appreciate my feelings, to understand me and above all feel very happy to have my love, it took me years to find you but today I feel happier than ever. - Auliq Ice

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end. - Eudora Welty

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. - Daniel J. Boorstin

When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. - Shannon L. Alder

I can never be satisfied; I always look for more. - Ane Krstevska

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. - John Green

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks. - Dr. Seuss

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. - Joseph Farrell

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. - Holbrook Jackson

There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore, Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself. Let life be funny, but never a joke. - Nikki Rowe

Light jumping out of window is staring the dark from afar. - Suman Pokhrel

They are not going to believe in you and that's okay. All you need is to believe in yourself. - Sharfaraz Ahmed

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. - Albert Einstein

Crazy moment!! When you suddenly laughed because you remember something funny and then realised that strangers were lookin at you weirdly (why the hell he's laughin) and immediately you changed your expression to serious. - Khaled Besrour

When I see Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity baying across the television screen, I find it hard to take them seriously. I assume that they must be saying what they do primarily to boost book sales or ratings, although I do wonder who would spend their precious evenings with such sourpusses. - Barack Obama

I remember every good thing about you. Every sweet and perfect thing. And nothing else. He touched her chin, tipped it up to look into her wet brown eyes. Even smudged, they were gorgeous. The dawning light in them filled his heart, and healed it. Nothing else. - V.S. Carnes

A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious yoga and other therapies - Karthikeyan V

If everyone just accepted you the way you are, then, probably, you'd still be the way you were. So for anyone who didn't accept you at one point, just give 'em a smile in your heart and say, "Thank You"! - Ufuoma Apoki

It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause you any amount of suffering, ever. Then the next time you step out the door you look at everyone and you’re thinking, My life is precious and you’re not allowed to hurt me. - C. JoyBell C.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. - Rabindranath Tagore

Unlike world I use my notebook from both side. - Singh Rajiv

My life was a blank paper, until you came to rhyme with words & make it a poetry book. ❤ ❤ - Akansh Malik

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

At times, look back towards your ancient days, drink deep from the eternal fountain of wisdom long gone, and then look ahead. - Abhijit Naskar

Hold on to your friends.Resist - or move onBe mad, be rashSmoke and explodeSell all of your clothesJust bear in mind:There just might come a timeWhen you need some friends - Morrissey

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories. - Ben Okri

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost. - Anthony Esolen

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Baada ya Adam na Hawa kutenda dhambi katika bustani ya Edeni, kila mtu anayezaliwa anazaliwa katika dhambi. Kwa hiyo dhambi hutokana na maisha, na maisha hutokana na dhambi. - Enock Maregesi

We often take for granted those familiar faces and places, the repetitive nature of something once new, excitement wanes. To capture that early moment and hold onto it for all our days, true bliss. Looking at the old in in a different way, making it new once again. - Jonathan P. Lamas

Don't forget, and don't let your reader forget, that the small world in which you have held him for the last hour or two hasn't ended. Be aware, and make him aware, that tomorrow all of its remaining inhabitants will pick up the broken fragments of their lives, and carry on. - Joseph Hansen

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing… Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy - Sarah J. Pepper

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. - Robert Fripp

You can be critical and not judgmental. The two are synonyms, but not the same. The critical man analyzes people, things, and issues, very carefully. The judgmental man presents the results of his careful analysis in a manner that condemns. - Kingsley C. Okei

It's okay to be hurt because what is pleasure without some pain. - Jasmine Sandozz

The more broken you are, the more light gets through. - Jason Gray

I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time! - Jen Selinsky

The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one. - C.S. Lewis

Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer - Nassim Haramein

With life, everything that’s needed to be known can be known by human. No mystery can be hidden from you if you really try to look into it. - Roshan Sharma

Love is like fire.Leave it alone and you will be okay,play with it and you get burnt - Raheem Kirlew

The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world. - G. K. Chesterton

Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses. - Dr Margaret Aranda

It is so easy to forget the importance of emotional self-care. Especially when we have obvious symptoms of mental and physical illness. Emotions seem irrelevant, unrelated, invisible. But when we look at a giant oak tree, the seed that bore it is invisible too. - Vironika Tugaleva

And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child? - Daniel J. Siegel

He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his *being at the wrong place at the wrong time.* - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was amazing to think that she'd always had it wrong, imagining that they were the weak ones, the ones who took their chance. No. The weakest are those who stay put and call it sacrifice, call it not having a choice. - Sunjeev Sahota

To open eyes when others close themTo hear when others do not wish to listenTo look when others turn awayTo seek to understand when others give upTo rouse oneself when others acceptTo continue to struggle when one is not the strongestTo cry out when others keep silent… - Emmanuel Eydoux

The reason why God doesn't show his face is because he stands behind a wall that can be broken. - Lionel Suggs

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice. - Anton Chekhov

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others. - DaShanne Stokes

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. - John Green

The way we can replenish our memories is to look back at textual information that we have either written or read before. If that method is accomplished, we can comprehend and complete tasks that require us to use more critical thinking. - Saaif Alam

Justice is like a great home cooked meal; it may not come at the ideal time, but when it does it is served and delicious. - Robert J. Braathe

What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk. - Larry Geller, Joel Spector, Patricia Romanowski

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Laugh a little when the joke's on you - Helen Gurley Brown

To an ignorant lady, she wants to look attractive and beautiful while some conscienceless men prey on her life. - Sunday Adelaja

Learning to ride a bicycle is easy once you stop worrying about falling off - Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad. - Henry Kissinger

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are. - Neil Gaiman

I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older. - Matt Chandler

Hey, look—your girlfriend is saying something."Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl? - Eoin Colfer

What I cannot love, I overlook. - Anaïs Nin

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Tears were frozen to the book theif's face. - Markus Zusak

You have to want the book enough to read it. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited in their awesomeness. - John Green

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people. - Robert Redford

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook. - Shannon L. Alder

We are all searching for love, some at the bottom of a bottle, some at the casino, some in the eyes of a new lover. The more we search outside ourselves, we more desperate we become. We suffer not because love's unavailable, but because we are not looking in the right place. - Vironika Tugaleva

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window. - Charles Baudelaire

While looking down memory lane, I realized that I have had an unusual and extraordinary life at times. Then it dawned on me, maybe it's because I'm supposed to help unusual and extraordinary lives. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

It’s not conversion 'therapy;' it’s conversion brainwashing. - DaShanne Stokes

Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet. - Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men.From the new book The Waning - Ellen Mae Franklin

Jokes are hilarious only when you take them unreal and dreamlike, otherwise it becomes painful. So I always live otherworldly... - Saket Assertive

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. - Carl Sandburg

You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair. - Paula Heller Garland

Demonstrating verbal kindness looks better on everyone know matter what the situation. There's a peace in the heart of the kind person who handles everything with love. - Ron Baratono

It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without. - Ralph Bouma

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. - Cher

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time. - Steven Wright

Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what. - carol piner

The waters of spirituality are forever changing and forever constant. Prejudice or fixed ideas can only weigh you down and remove you from the flow. - The Book of Metanoia (D. Williamsen) - Dannye Williamsen

Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Look those tough and hard decisions in the face and make them; keep making them until you are confident in what you see. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration—poetry, novels, music, dancing—if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding. - Ben Fountain

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks - Waqar Ahmed

I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished. - Lawrence Welk

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, Look ... twins! - Rodney Dangerfield

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. - Vladimir Nabokov

Books create readers; conversation creates friends. - Marty Rubin

I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere. - Nikki Rowe

Culture becomes visible when we travel between cultures and when we look back in time to other cultures than our own. - Michael Ryan

Body language speaks much more succinctly and honestly than mere spoken words. - Dixie Waters

But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God’s existence. - Juhani Peltonen

Every book is unique and it depends what you think, not others. - Emmiem

she has cratersbut only a fool can deny her beauty.She silently stare sun whole night& reflects his lighthis love with stars at times. - Lokesh Fouzdar

People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book. - Deyth Banger

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! - Golda Meir

Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle.

One day you will be able to look over all the disaster and heartbreak and feel ok with it, today mighten be the day but one day you will. - Nikki Rowe

If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen... - Deyth Banger

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. - Mitch Albom

But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though it’s nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in. - Clementine von Radics

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered. - Ann Druyan

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be. - Michael Bassey Johnson

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. - Madeleine L'Engle

Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance. - Jay Woodman

I used to love youI still doSo SelfishI love the old youThe you that didnt shoot drugs...The you that didnt get beat on by menYou laugh in my face and call me a foolBut its trueI still love youSometimes,I can see the old youWhen your eyes flashWhen you almost look alive - Henry Rollins

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.

Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that. - Amma

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes. - Machado de Assis

i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad - Sanchez Raymundo

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. - Eric Hoffer

Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots! - Jacqueline Wilson

Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy. - Augustine Birrell

We're broken, imperfect,we were all made the same.We're broken, we're broken, imperfect,we are all to blame. - Of Mice & Men

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall. - Seamus Heaney

Anger should be your servant, not your master - Alok Jagawat

There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience. - George Washington

Two good indicators of revealed preferences are things the people tend to value a lot: time and money. If you look at how they spend their time and how they spend their money, you can infer quite a lot about their real preferences. - Douglas W. Hubbard

Love is like a piece of chocalate. It looks and tastes good, but it's dark. What really matters is the inside. - Touaxia Vang

Thou doth not know the tragedy of a tale between two hearts till the tears of a forgotten love dissolve into the scars of yearning and seep through the cracks of the broken, leaving behind a trail of crimson for all but one to see. - Raneem Kayyali

History is an amazing presence--it is the place where vanished time gathers. While we are in the flow of time, it is difficult to glean its significance, and it is only in looking back that we can recognize the hidden dimensions at work within a particular era or epoch. - John O'Donohue

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

The unspoken word never does harm. - Kossuth

No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write! - Chrys Fey

Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats! - Carmela Dutra

Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father! - Legh Richmond

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial."From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths - Kirk D. Sinclair

Being forever available to the rest of the world is overrated. I mean, what are 'missed calls' invented for? - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense. - Rabbi Harold Kushner

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May. - John Newton

My heart had been crush torn and crumble but I'm still here and I'm not broken I'm still fighting my way out - Joyce Guo

A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study. - Miyamoto Musashi

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook) - Steven Heighton

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The better we become, the higher we climb. The higher we climb, the bigger our ego. The bigger the ego, the harder it is for us to look at others the same way we did before as we can get so full of ourselves we lose our true self. Always be humble. Even if you're good. Always. - Lik Hock Yap Ivan

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

If you’re looking for that one person who can change your life, take a look in the mirror. - R. Price

Proverbs 22:7 "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender."Galatians 5:1 "do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. - The Holy Bible

Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery. - Auliq Ice

As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering of the world much more deeply. - Tsultrim Allione

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. - W. Somerset Maugham

That mine adversary had written a book. - Bible

Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the situation. - Lacey Thorn

To look in the eyes of the one you live with & see true love is indeed the purest of pleasures - Faye Hall

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need. - Shannon L. Alder

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. - Phillips Brooks

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost

If a woman tells you how terrible she looks, sincerely deny it, even if you agree. - Matshona Dhliwayo

All we’ve got left to protect here is a system that’s set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good. - William Gaddis

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken. - Shannon L. Alder

Rents bir keresinde, polisin ve yargıçların görev duygusunu tetiklemek için esmer bi tenden daha iyisi yoktur, demişti; çok doğru. - Irvine Welsh

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. - Henri Matisse

For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something...then yeah, they're old enough. LOL - Michelle M. Pillow

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment. - Robert Henri

Like the bees, we are - only looking for sweet honey in the flowers, we are -sensitive and at the same time carefully;but we never destroy them. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Arts degrees are awesome. And they help you find meaning where there is none. And let me assure you, there is none. Don’t go looking for it. Searching for meaning is like searching for a rhyme scheme in a cookbook: you won’t find it and you’ll bugger up your soufflé. - Tim Minchin

There is a little Juliet inside me, hoping I will lock eyes with my Romeo on the other side of a fish tank or through a gap in a library bookcase. Hell, even if it's behind the condiments section in a supermarket. I don't really mind. - Jessica Thompson

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most. - DaShanne Stokes

The psychology shows that one can do GOOD things to the others, but not so much to make others look BETTER than oneself. So, a person who is being often liked by many or most people in his/her circle has to best and first understand their true intention behind admiration and adulation. - Anuj Somany

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want. - Ufuoma Apoki

Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me to undiscovered worlds of azure and metamorphosis. The air shimmered with every breath, the water tightened with every sound. - Hubert Martin

I don't drink to make others look better, I just drink to make myself feel prettier. - Brooke Bida

Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well as computer's and Tv and everything else which doesn't have soul. Although that dogs and cats and many other animals are quite interesting friends. - Deyth Banger

. . . there are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to continue the fight - Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. - Anne Lamott

She never looked nice.She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. - Eleanor Park - Rainbow Rowell.

Man usually sees what he is looking for; seldom what he is looking at. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story. - Evelyn L. Colon

This sheaf of paper with gaudy cover glued to the spine is not the book. The book is not an object on the table, it is an event in the readers mind.... The book, therefore is only finished when someone reads it. - Lois McMaster Bujold

David looked at her and smiled. "I think you have to feel comfortable being alone with yourself before you truly know who you are and can feel comfortable being yourself with others. - Steven Manchesterchester

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. - Oscar Levant

The power of love is that it sees all people - DaShanne Stokes

Don't look at me in that tone of voice. - Dorothy Parker

When life is not coming up rosesLook to the weedsand find the beauty hidden within them. - L.F.Young

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer. - Roberto Bolaño

Me: I am very busy now. Can you please excuse me for few minutes?She: Oh ok. But why are you sweating all over your body?Me: I am very busy, that is why. I am dreaming extra-large dreams. - Israelmore Ayivor

Ali sigurno razumije. Sigurno zna da se dogodilo nezamislivo, i da će preživljavanje iziskivati nekad nezamislive poteze. Jer više sati kasnije, kad se probudim u svom krevetu, na mjesečini vidim da je i on ondje. Šćućurio se pokraj mene, žute oči su mu na oprezu. Čuva me od noći. - Suzanne Collins

Waandishi wanapaswa kuwa wadadisi, kama paka, ijapokuwa udadisi ni hatari. - Enock Maregesi

I spent all the money I had, to get the sacred books of my life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book. - Ban Ki-Moon

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. - Alice Walker

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. - Steve Jobs

Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces. - Jamie Ford

One is never too late to become young at heart. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality. - Steve Maraboli

Desire of The Wings Can Broke you Own Feet. - Yaganesh Derasari

Strength conquers weakness through force. Weakness conquers strength through seduction,the look and feel of ease, the illusion of rest without responsibility,and the hallucination of unaccountability in general. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

There is greatness in everyone.Look within yourself and discover your greatness. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you invoke faith as justification for your belief, you must accept the same from others. And every person who retreats to faith bears a measure of responsibility for every act of hate and violence justified by it. - Nate Phelps

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself. - David Brooks

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey. - John Hope Franklin

If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars. - Jeanette Walls

The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued; another organism’s life has to be discontinued. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. - Finley Peter Dunne

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life. - Marty Rubin

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. - Groucho Marx

If you have never seen a masterpiece, look in the mirror. - Matshona Dhliwayo

It is not the balance in your check book that makes life count. It is the investment one makes in the lives of others. - John Paul Warren

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Let her know that her look really works for you. - Auliq Ice

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review. - E.A. Bucchianeri

Be gentle with othersFor many hurt though you see it notSome wounds are invisible yet deepKhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul. - Jason Ellis

We can’t all be comedians, some people have to do the laughing. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I took her to bed with silk and song'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long,I must prepare my body for passion.''O, your body you give, but all else you ration... - Roman Payne

And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report. - Dave Barry

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming close. Please can you just lower the frequency of your stern looking face and smile...and they will make you their habit. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard. - Peg Kehert

The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until tomorrow.. - Cecil Lewis

Is the moon walking,Or the clouds are joking?Is the wind passing,Or my hair is dancing?Is the night dark,Or my eyes are blank?Are the wolfs howling,Or my heart is screaming?Is the day arousing,Or my mind is shining?Is the world staring,Or I'm peeping?Is this alright to write,Or I'm mistaking? - Irfa Adam

It only took a corny joke, but the smile I saw shone brighter than a glare, more profound than a star. And the best thing... it was so genuine. It was so her. I never thought I could fall more in love. - Hubert Martin

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. - B.R. Myers

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. - Leonardo da Vinci

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952) - Mary Ellen Chase

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm. - William Shakespeare

The world is small. Books make it bigger. - Jerry J.C. Veit

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. - Virginia Woolf

Sometimes the most beautiful things are in front of our eyes, and we don’t even notice because we’re either too busy or too afraid to take a closer look. - Katja Michael

Y'know when your dog drags its butt across the carpet leaving a stain- It's not as easy as it looks..." - Josh Stern

It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. - Jerry Seinfeld

We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it’s hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh airand realise you can’t get up. You’re too far down. - Charlotte Eriksson

When you look at a flower with an appreciative heart and get lost in the magical beauty, you really get a vacation from the everyday stressful life. - Debasish Mridha

You're either reading a book or you're not. - Jonathan Franzen

Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise. - Amit Kalantri

And if our love was a story bookWe would meet on the very first pageThe last chapter would be aboutHow I'm thankful for the life we've made.I Love You... - J.Hampden Jackson

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.] - Mo Willems

Jesus never wrote a book; never went outside his country. His only legacy was to never compromise the good. And it was more than enough for the world. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

If you can't be an author, be a book - Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal, sivaprakash sidhu, sivaprakash, sivaprakash, sidh

I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again. - Steve Goodier

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes - Craig Stokes

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - William Shakespeare

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. - Henry David Thoreau

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived. - Joshua Rogers

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one. - Trent Zelazny

Be wiser than most, be a child in your heart, be a sage in your mind and a mage with your hands. Feel hearts beating, hear the flapping of birds' wings. Heal the broken, embrace the vulnerable. Speak to the living trees. Be pulled down by no one, and by nothing. This is how to be a Goddess. - C. JoyBell C.

I leave the outdoors to you. It is too warm out there to read comfortable, and summer, like many uncomfortable things, is as welcome as a dim woman. It is tolerable to look at, but after being made to interact with it, nobody wants anything to do with it. - Michelle Franklin

Without story books is like a person with no soul. - Stephen King

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. - Truman Capote

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book... - Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have. - Edward Hirsch

Nights; are belong to the universe that speaks about an unspoken feelings into a poetry. - Dina Zettira Putri

He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness. - Donna Tartt

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? - Karl Kraus

I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape against the jagged pieces. I would not be cut today. - Hubert Martin

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C.S. Lewis

It doesn't matter what you look like when you see in the mirror, what matters most, is how you feel about yourself. - Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

The Boy looked at him for a long time before responding. Well, as long as you’re my friend, I’ll never ignore you, he said with conviction. I know what it’s like to be invisible to other people. - Mike Resnick

PROSPECT, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden. Blow, blow, ye spicy breezes -- O'er Ceylon blow your breath, Where every prospect pleases, Save only that of death. Bishop Sheber - Ambrose Bierce

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. - George Eliot

I do. I choose you, which is to choose him and the others and to say Everything I was ever told of love was so simple as to be untrue. Let me see for myself what you desire beside me. Let me look it in the face and kiss him. - Jameson Fitzpatrick

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook. - Robert Henri

Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels against it, but from... the greater inner law that has left behind its small birth, the narrow realm of personal outlook, for the sake of renewal and rebirth. - Max Zeller

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven. - Lauren Willig

Nothing better than this moments of new year, to say : goodbye last day, last month, last year. Do i confused to say goodbye facebook? goodbye virtual world? - Nabil TOUSSI

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her. - Aminatta Forna

Wherever we go we do harm, forgivingourselves as wheels do cement for wearingeach other out. We set this houseon fire, forgetting that we live within.(from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker) - Jim Harrison

I looked directly in front of me, and there he was, Sitting. Dark, Handsome, Distinguished, and waiting on me.Without ever knowing it. - Andrea L'Artiste

My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood. - Kerry Alan Denney https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29618820-marionettes

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. - Ursula K. Le Guin

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. - Henry Hazlitt

A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The less a man makes declarative statements the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? - Mikhail Bulgakov

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart. - W.H. Auden

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

Live every moment.. in an effort to bring a positive difference to the world - Alok Jagawat

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death. - Shinmon Aoki

The world is a thick bookand I am a big bookworm. - Anika Redhed

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Valkyrie, if there was ever a cradle to be robbed ... Gods, just look at him." ...... "Face it, Nat, this is one tiger who will never be jumping through your flaming hoop-- - Kresley Cole

If you are going to write a book,Make sure it is going to be worth reading . - Book Editor Angelina

It's much more efficient to build on a head-strong teen than to fix a broken-spirited adult. - Ace Antonio HallHall

Sometimes I accidentally walk into the places where I and you had spoken before, existed before, which still have the smell ofyour memories, all of a sudden it starts feeling like I have entered a dark room without a door anywhere. Where I can always hear that song I used to love once before. - Akshay Vasu

as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is. - Vladimir Nabokov

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity. - Diane Ackerman

People usualy use "move on" when their heart broke because of love. Most don't understand when father, mother, sister or brother has died, you might have needed more strength to move on. It was like living with no air. - Glad Munaiseche

A son is an unfulfilled man’s last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen

When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up. - Robin Gregory

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. - Roy T. Bennett

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on. - Richelle E. Goodrich

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. - Voltaire

It's hard to pretend you're OK. Especially when you're all by urself, alone. :'( - Marlon Roxas

It was a shield that was meant to be broken only for each other ... Because this world was not their perception of their soul... Until they found the mirror of their reflection in each other... K.K - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to. - Gene Fowler

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? - Steven Spielberg

And there was a beautiful view But nobody could see. Cause everybody on the island Was saying: Look at me! Look at me! - Laurie Anderson

BIG books are better. There, I said it and it's true. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer. - Anthony Liccione

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Intelligence without wisdom is like a hook without bait. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Be a critical thinker too sometimes. Look in to your heart and give your self permission to ask your mind and question the teachings that doesn't resonate with the wisdom of your soul. - Angie karan

If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. - Unknown

The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man. - Indiana Lang

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! - Oscar Wilde

The best accessory for an outfit like this is a grim-looking buddy by my side.

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted. - Criss Jami

No two person, ever read the same book. - Edmund Wilson

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. - Simon Van Booy

I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My temper is a mortal enemy to this horrible yoke, which I would not accept, even if I thus would become the ruler of the world. - Christina Queen of Sweden

Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly every government antipoverty program operates on the assumption that it doesn’t. - David Brooks

Apparently Lord Wyndham did regularly donate books to various museums around London. They were usually ones which he had collected earlier, but which were no longer of interest to him or his associates. Irene twitched at the very notion. Give books away? How very frivolous, she finally said. - Genevieve Cogman

Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friendFight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red,Threw down his broken sword and fled.Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away. - Edwin Markham

Looking for a wife is like fishing; before you go, make sure you don't have a hole in your net. - Matshona Dhliwayo

It's not important that we agree with each other, only that we understand each other. - Raquel Cook

I love the man, Megan said as she took a seat, but honestly he needs to learn when not to agree with me. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad

If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity! - Lorii Myers

Looking back on it now, I'd say one's thirties are a cruel age. At this point, I think of them as a time I whiled away unaware of the tide that can suddenly pull you out, beyond the shallows, into the sea of hardship, and even death - Takashi Hiraide

A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another. - F. Haywood Glenn

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You know you may feel very sad like a child whose toy is broken; but then you know sun rises, life continues and you start laughing again! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Your never alone , look around you there are so many objects , they don't live but are there in your presence , your never truly alone - Kenrick Fernandes

Look athow deeply flawedwe areand yet capable of lovingso perfectly. - Sanober Khan

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book. - Anatole France

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. - Anne Rice

The goal is to be rich, not to look rich. - Moosa Rahat

If justice fails in the courtroom, it will not prevail in society.A broken Justice System does not protect the rights of all people. - Ellen J. Barrier

Of all things, I liked books best. - Nikola Tesla

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. - Roger Ebert

Those who say Rules are meant to be broken. are saying this by following rules of English language. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

Your half empty..A broken glass,I love you can sound so beautifulUntil you stop to listenThat terrible background noise,you have no idea how bad I want to hold youBut I’m afraid I’ll cut my hand. - Brittany Williams

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted - George Keller

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. - C.S. Lewis

Broken hearts don't need medical treatment, they need a lover to mend them. - Dixie Waters

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think Amy Winehouse's decision not to go to rehab was a bad one. In fact, I think it was the worst idea since Dodi Al Fayed said to Princess Diana, "Ooh, look! A tunnel! Whack that seat belt off and let's have a fuck. - Robert Clark

Look beyond your marksheet; life is much bigger. - Steven Chopade

Live in Thorns but always enchant the hearts with your fragrance - Alok Jagawat

You’re so unfair, Michiru…To leave into your own world…Don’t leave me alone…-Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus - Naoko Takeuchi

Jail's are a spooky place," remarked Bill, trying to match the pace of detective Adam."Oh that is nothing in front of the ultimate fear" replied detective Adam."Ultimate fear?""Funny thing that, the ultimate fear is also the ultimate relief.""Which is?""Death - Rao Umar Javed

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Crystal then read the red sticker out loud, "Dangerous, do not open." We both stared at each other for a moment. I was trying to figure out why a dumb book about power was dangerous - Dominic Tomasi

Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. - Shannon L. Alder

After a life of being entombed, essentially a slave to an unfair beginning,I am free. I'm a liberated whore of the world with little to no inhibitions."(Annie from upcoming book 3) - Robert Kimbrell

Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his pathAnd cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heartMay the Lord Christ enter in? - Oscar Wilde

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer. - Pete Hamill

I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as 'Do good experiments, and don’t worry about the rest. - César Milstein

My medication must be wearing off I'm starting to think my jokes are funny. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. - Washington Irving

Misli su uvek nečije. Moje su tvoje. Osvrćem se oko sebe. Gde si? Grad mi je pred očima i iza leđa, pulsira, tmulo, tmasto. Ukorenjeni ritam večne pretnje, svireposti koja ne bira kada će da udari. - Sreten Ugričić

‪‎सलाह‬ कहाँ 'नही' देनी । इसका ख़ास ख्याल होना चाहिए - Aalok Rai

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What?" I asked."Nothing," he said."Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. - John Green

The only thing it took for her to be beautiful was to believe that she was. - Kamiyah Franks

Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. - Alan W. Watts

Then I looked at myself in the mirror. I was proud of myself, of my entire life, of everything I have done. It was the BEST feeling... I didn't want to leave that place. I wish I never woke up. - Benjamin Breedlove

Did you look for the truth?You can't find it, don't you. You can't find the truth, because we even creating it. - VicDo

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. - Abraham Lincoln

Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves. - Richie Norton

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. - Fred Allen

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. - Gwendolyn Brooks

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness. - David Brooks

Look under your bed and you will know the greatest thief in your room. - ABC

Look beyond what you think is possible for you… Stretch your imagination… Free your creativity… Dare to be different! Become fearless and free! Embrace your dreams with passion! - Millen Livis

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. - Oliver Sacks

Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things. - Shunryu Suzuki

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be. - Marty Rubin

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead. - Walter Dean Myers

Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one. - Michael Bassey Johnson

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. - W. Somerset Maugham

Çocuklara okur olmayı ve kitaplardan korkmak yerine, onlarla ilişki kurmayı öğretmek benim için bir tutku. Kitaplar göz korkutmamalı; kitaplar eğlenceli, heyecanlı ve muhteşem olmalı. Bir okur olmayı öğrenmek müthiş bir kazançtır. - Roald Dahl

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. - Eleanor Roosevelt

And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved. - Nikki Rowe

When you've already broken the rules of the universe, fear becomes only a feeling of disconnection, distant. - Jonas Samuelle

If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Quite often you look for answers and strength in friends (supposed 2b) around you, without realizing All the true strength and honest answers come from within!!! - v filipa ketteridge

It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. - Will Harondale, Clockwork Prince

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down. - Lewis Black

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. - Peter F. Drucker

When you are on a great mission, look simple;think and act complexly - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

There is something remarkable about each one of us. Seize the opportunity to look within and rediscover yourself. - Roopleen

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. - William Ellery Channing

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be the reason someone smiles today. Or the reason they drown in a book. Whatever works. - Roney Ngala

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book! - Martin Luther

To win the game of life, identify and improve all your weak shots. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa

When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered everything I have, I forgot everything I lost. - Jenna Alatari

All books are either dreams or swords. - Amy Lowell

Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book. - Patti Smith

In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer. - Adam Sisman

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. - Michel de Montaigne

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. - Fran Lebowitz

Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker? - George Carlin

One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity. - Ufuoma Apoki

...history should continually seek to challenge our assumptions. It should prompt us to look differently at the world and make us less self-assured about our own ideals and beliefs. - Christopher Kelly

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book. - Ashwin Sanghi

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Don't be so impatient in finding love; take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you'll be busy reading the back of the book. - Surgeo Bell

When a person loves only oneself and meets the people of own nature , it creates often an illusion to the onlookers that they all like one another but the real scene could be different altogether. - Anuj Somany

We did musical chairs to sit with our partner. Glasses were refilled and heads bent in pairs. Looking over the table, I was suffused with affection for my friends. If you could bottle this warm feeling and turn it into words, I thought, that would be the perfect toast. - Kerry Reichs

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books - Theodore Roosevelt

America's leaders should be examples of integrity and high moral standards. When their behavior evokes shame rather than pride and becomes something that we don't want to discuss in front of the children at the kitchen table, we should consider impeachment. - Ben Carson, M.D.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. - Woodrow Wilson

Young Arab men are not going to walk away from extremism because they can suddenly afford a Slurpee. They will walk away when they can devote themselves to a some call to serve a cause that connects nationalism to dignity and democracy and transcends a lifetime. - David Brooks

Abundance is looking for you; just open your heart to attract it. - Debasish Mridha

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The world is broken he said, how will you fix it? I don't think anyone can fix it but we can teach ourselves & eachother to focus on the good and the important and maybe little by little this place won't feel so heavy. - Nikki Rowe

You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart." - Adieu - Kate Chisman

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. - Gwendolyn Brooks

What we think & how we think plays a major role in creating the life we live. If you want to change your life, change the way you look at things around. - Taranpreet Singh

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."(As quoted on , June 18, 2013) Neil Gaiman - BookRiot

The OakLive thy Life, Young and old,Like yon oak,Bright in spring, Living gold;Summer-rich Then; and thenAutumn-changedSoberer-hued Gold again.All his leaves Fall'n at length,Look, he stands,Trunk and bough Naked strength. - Alfred Tennyson

Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around. - Ross Lynch

The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time! - Nell Rose

If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong. - Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart

Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When the Lord disconnects you from your past, don't try to hook up with it again. - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn’t. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn’t. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An entire nation shook under the power of one man’s [MLK’s] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church. - Wayne Cordeiro

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Wisdom is learning what to overlook. - William James

Guys like him? They were the worst kind. All looks and no heart. Guys not like him? They were all deceiving, freaking asshats. - Rucy Ban

...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole. -pg. 19 - Félix J. Palma

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. - Voltaire

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully. - Abraham Lincoln

Eli: I walk by faith, not by sight. - Book of Eli Movie

We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions. - Raphael Zernoff

All you need is 5min or even less.....Go outside, look up the clear sky and thank the HEAVENS above you for the life you have and the blessings you receive on a daily basis. Why do we make it a mission to simply say thank you? NB: I double dare you to do it! - Katlego Semusa

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters. - Stephen Chbosky

If you want the waves to touch you softly, have a walk on the sea coasts; if you want the life to touch you softly, have a walk on the reason’s coasts, because reason is a shield that softens the strokes of life! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You hurt me. It’s OK. I just want you to be happy. - M Y

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way. - Jim Rohn

One wonders in the end if books don't do more harm than good. - Marty Rubin

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books. - Hemant Mehta

School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The knowledge we gain from textbooks can never measure to the wisdom we gain through experience. - Anika de Souza

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain. - Shannon L. Alder

To know what's in my food means to prepare a gun, to know what I drink means to go and put ammo in the gun after cleaning it and finding it and to as last just to push the trigger and look... I'm dead. I'm now just watching my body! - Deyth Banger

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves. - Lemony Snicket

If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories - Ann Haywood Leal

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life. - David Ignatow

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. - Linda Ellerbee

Sitting alone...where we usually used to sit...n looking behind those memories ,we enjoyed together..... - Himangshu Rabha

This is not Education. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens. - Abhijit Naskar

will you be the one reading the book or writing the book - Abe

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad. - David Reeves

Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure. - William Shakespeare

The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking. - Jason Pollock

I just looked at the calendar and realized- my days are numbered - Johnny Moscato

I like the idea of differenttheres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass,a Bronx where people talklike violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehowkind, perhaps in the nookof a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayedanyone. - Bob Hicok

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. - Eckhart Tolle

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The world of light and starry grace;within your mind I live to trace.Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,lightening my being with dream’s story.I embrace the tree carrying your nameYour unspoken wish : the heart of fame. - Munia Khan

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. - Chuck Palahniuk

Akili yako isipokuwa timamu, familia itakushinda. Familia ikikushinda utalaumiwa na Mwenyezi Mungu. - Enock Maregesi

This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They were always my heroes, creating something fantastic against all odds, and against their real life. - Christian Tetzlaff

The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego - Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. - William Kristol

One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts; one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation]. - Dada Bhagwan

It is rude to tweet while having sex. However, it is not rude to have sex while tweeting. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber

[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. - Sir Winston Churchill

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay. - Ruben Studdard

In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight. - Sayo Masuda

The thing is that when you find true love.... it lives on.No matter if you two seperate but the love stays alive; broken, gasping for breath, love and affection, but in agony, waiting for everything to end. But Sadly, It lives on... in memories and thought's. - Alamvusha

Whatever you do or wherever you go in life, after a while everything you did will look like a dream to you! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces. - Penelope Gilliatt

No ornament can make a person look beautiful if the person has a bad heart! A good heart is the finest ornament, the best makeup, the best cloth, the best jewel, the best lipstick and the best earring! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him. - Elizabeth Chandler

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived. - Umberto Eco

I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story. - Marilynn Halas

We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral right to the lands of Hawai'i now and forever, no matter what any court says. - Lilikalā K. Kame'eleihiwa

What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid; it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we've faced it well. - Caitlín R. Kiernan

It's sad that we get attached to the way certain people abuse us. It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that it's okay to miss someone, but not want them back. - Steve Maraboli

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. - Jane Austen

She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!Then SHewent and left him restlessly numb. He was herpainkiller. SHe, his anesthetic. - Douglas Self

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

A lady laced with grace . . . Such, is impossible to despise. - Ufuoma Apoki

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. - Axel Munthe

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov

Sydney, look at me.' He rested his hands on the car roof and leaned in. 'No one is going to hurt you. Do you know why?' She shook her head, and Victor smiled. 'Because I'll hurt them first. - V.E. Schwab

God help us to live slowly:To move simply:To look softly:To allow emptiness:To let the heart create for us.Amen. - Michael Leunig

If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don’t break a neck looking up for God. Try looking down at inspiring human deeds. - Gloria D. Gonsalves

When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Angry is always hungry to cook guilty. - Prabakaran Thirumalai

This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master. - V.S. Carnes

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. - William Lyon Phelps

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book. - Stéphane Mallarmé

Before You Begin Writing Your Book, Ask Yourself A Very Important Question: What Kind of Results Do I Plan To Receive From Writing This Book? If You Say Money, Then Don't Bother Even Writing The Book. - Chris Mentillo

Look around! People have faces with no smiles, as if they are carrying heavy baggage. Stop them! Give them a SMILE and see them Light up. - RVM

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan. - Rebecca MacKinnon

Do I get bored from books or films?No, I don't get I get bored from genre so I change it and start something new... - Deyth Banger

Your life has purpose and meaning. Don't devalue yourself giving someone else meaning. - Michelle Cook-Hall

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. - Michael Cunningham

When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes! - Oprah Winfrey

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian. - Alysia Harris

When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered the things I have, I forgot I lost anything at all. - Jenna Alatari

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. - Coco Chanel

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. - Mark Twain

If you don't know what it is you're looking for you're NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you're seeking. - Germany Kent

When all thoughtsAre exhaustedI slip into the woodsAnd gatherA pile of shepherd's purse.Like the little streamMaking its wayThrough the mossy crevicesI, too, quietlyTurn clear and transparent. - Ryokan

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead. - W. Somerset Maugham

A consistent outlook is inconsistent with reality. - Marty Rubin

Fail big. Fail better.Try again. Without looking for a shelter. - Debasish Mridha

Things spoken in love always become reality. - Amy Neftzger

We can only become who we want to be. Choose success! - Joshua Okello

Wir können in diesem Land entweder eine Demokratie haben oder wir können großen Wohlstand haben, der in den Händen weniger konzentriert liegt, aber wir können nicht beides haben. - Louis Brandeis

I won't look back to regret yesterday, we're not handed tomorrow so I'll live for today - 3 Doors Down

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that. - J.I. Packer

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. - Jean Webster

Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you. - RuPaul

You are on the floor crying,and you have been on the floor crying for days.And that is you being brave.That is you getting through itas best you know how. No one else can decideWhat your tough looks like. - Clementine von Radics

You have to think if we've been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened. - J. Richard Singleton

I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away. - Deborah Meyler

I look foreword to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. - John F. Kennedy

Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say. - Amy Rogers

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up. - P.G. Wodehouse

Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words,the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds. - Toba Beta

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back. - Milan Kundera

Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering - Ida Scott Taylor McKinney

Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. - Vladimir Nabokov

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. - Mel Brooks

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When asked, "Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with?" - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul) - Emma Thompson

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road. - David Brooks

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. - Franz Kafka

Kitabu cha 'Kolonia Santita' ni kitabu cha wasomi na wasiokuwa wasomi, watu wa mijini na watu wa vijijini, watu wazima, vijana na watoto. Hadhira ya kitabu hiki ni jamii nzima ya Tanzania. - Enock Maregesi

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Seek happiness now within you. Don’t look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile. - Sal Martinez

Smoke the weed of your own heart to fly higher - Munia Khan

The sun rises each morning to shed light on the things we may have overlooked the day before. - Tyler J. Hebert

If your altar is not active, your voice will not be strong - Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

Demokrasi bisa ditindas sementara karena kesalahannya sendiri, tetap setelah ia mengalami cobaan yang pahit, ia akan muncul kembali dengan penuh keinsafan. - Mohammad Hatta

Een doel, hoe nietig ook, verschafte het leven zin en betekenis. - Renate Dorrestein

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger. - Ben Okri

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? - Alain de Botton

Love should never mean having to live in fear. - DaShanne Stokes

My stomach rumbles.Plates of cookies, cake, and fudge.Christmastime is here. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that,... I gonna read this book, I will check out this film and in the end few of them have read the book or the books and the film or the films. - Deyth Banger

The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all! - Richard Baxter

Read enough books to build your sacred soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You can build your strength, If you read enough books! - Lailah Gifty Akita

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. - Terry Pratchett

It is one of life's great ironies that most people's only connection to success is their attachment to the pain of not having achieved it. - Stephen Smoke

You cannot tell what a puzzle is by looking at a single piece; understand people are the same way; don't define them by singular action, but their pattern of behavior. - Steve C. Roberts

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it. - Daniel T. O'Hara