Book Quotes - Page 67

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding; when you look out a window, a golf-ball-sized awareness, when you wake up in the morning, a golf-ball-sized wakefulness; and as you go about your day, a golf-ball-sized inner happiness. But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out, more awareness; when you wake up, more wakefulness; as you go about your day, more inner happiness.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.

The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly bring to you the conditions, environment and experiences in life, corresponding with your habitual, characteristic, predominant mental attitude. Not what you think about once in a while when you are in church, or have just read a good book, BUT your predominant mental attitude is what counts.

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

Books may well be the only true magic.

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!