We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.
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Related Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre... BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities. BEN OAK The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I carried her out on my back in the flood. There were people screaming, crying. I saw alligators eat... DWAYNE JOHNSON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE In a world of words, anything is possible... LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future. CHERISE WOLAS The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is... EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE Voter apathy is a civic abdication. CHARLES M. BLOW If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you mi... JEFF KINNEY We encourage walkers and hikers to come out and try it. Don't be intimidated by the competitive peop... BRUCE KELLY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL My book, Ambassador Book one: how to take on the world and win will help to illuminate many of the o... KEN TAYLOR If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. I don't... LEE SMITH The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... FLANNERY O'CONNOR A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Take care of your words and the words will take care of you. AMIT RAY Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ, which is impossible... JAMES C. DOBSON I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham... JERRY B. JENKINS We?re on a mission to win back both readers and advertisers. We?re going to cover the hip-hop scene ... JEREMY MILLER In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus MADELEINE L’ENGLE Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Or ... PAWAN MISHRA Now I don’t know how many people like to drive a Beetle at that kind of speed (on purpose) but I k... CHRISTINA ENGELA You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL We are all so impressed with the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, that a petition has been circula... LONE STAR So do you come here often?” he asked in a slightly self-mocking way. I couldn't help myself—I sm... ALLY CARTER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple m... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keyst... JOSEPH SMITH, JR. They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in ... ROBERT STACK It's really about readers getting in touch with books. Their interest may start with new technology,... JEFF GOMEZ When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M That’s not fair! Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo... JOHN M SHEEHAN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not eve... ROBERT PLANT I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't... DONALD MILLER Ultimate Christian Wrestling is like any other pro-wrestling bout you might see on a Saturday night ... JAKE TAPPER Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ... SHELLEY LUBBEN Anyone who has sat down intending to read through the entire Bible can attest to the difficulty. We ... JEFF CAVINS Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I am what I have ever read BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his min... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths. BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A writer is a thought smith; he educates men to think for themselves BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not ... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them w... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
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Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to o... ELEANOR BROWN She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from ... ELEANOR BROWN There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot... ELEANOR BROWN She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A few ... ELEANOR BROWN It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific o... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe... 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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone els... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the gr... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on l... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What you don't do can be a destructive force. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be o... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That d... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point o... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo... 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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be be... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! W... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness! Eleanore Roosevelt ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unendin... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your h... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. 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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light 1 candle
than to curse the darkness. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and th... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the w... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, b... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the thing you think you cannot do ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Whatever come we have to meet it. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. ELEANOR BRON You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ELEANOR POWELL Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. ELEANOR HAMILTON I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a... ELEANOR CATTON My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified b... ELEANOR CATTON Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole. ELEANOR MONDALE As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. ELEANOR CLIFT The giving of love is an education in itself. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the things you think you cannot do. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Can... ELEANOR CATTON A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've create... ELEANOR CATTON Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My hor... ELEANOR CATTON Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice. ELEANOR CATTON I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro... ELEANOR CATTON I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas. ELEANOR MONDALE A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men. ELEANOR MONDALE Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good... ELEANOR CATTON When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and... ELEANOR CATTON I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble... ELEANOR CATTON I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one... ELEANOR CATTON Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th... ELEANOR FARJEON Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. ELEANOR FARJEON The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found sign... ELEANOR ACER One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do ... ELEANOR ACER It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decisi... ELEANOR ACER This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution t... ELEANOR ACER The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos... ELEANOR MONDALE To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha... ELEANOR CATTON We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th... ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT What you don't do can be a destructive force. ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You cant live long enough to make them all yourself. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, its their fault; if they betray you twice, its your fault. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if yo... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well. ELEANOR MARX Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are t... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. A... ELEANOR CATTON The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends. ELEANOR MONDALE In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites... ELEANOR CATTON A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imag... ELEANOR CATTON I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no head... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other perso... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT