"Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good."
#Book
165 quotes about Book
Discover inspiring Book quotes from famous authors and thought leaders. Find wisdom and motivation about Book to inspire your life.
Book Quotes
"La memoria es como libro en el cual se escribe toda nuestra vida. Algunas veces deseamos cerrarlo y olvidarlo para no recordar todos los escabrosos detalles, y otras veces deseamos abrirlo y observarlo detenidamente, queriendo volver a sentir lo mismo que sentimos en aquel momento."
"There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it’ll teach you its rhythm."
"So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things."
"Thank God for books and music and things I can think about."
"I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things."
"Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life - glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well."
"Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons."
"I wanted to live among books."
"Choices makes us, choices made at mire proves a person to be righteous or evil. It depends on us to be vanquished or to stand indomitable to a predicament."
"When I was your age, television was called books."
"The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content."
"Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book."
"Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author."
"Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice."
"An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily."
"I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible."
"I can't not put humor in a book."
"Patience is a virtue not a vice."
"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."