Book Quotes - Page 35

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

We read to know that we are not alone.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.