Book Riot Challenge Quotes & Sayings

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world. — Henry David Thoreau

Autonomy and dependency are like light and shade, caught in the pull of each other's gravity, until, after considerable trial and error, each individual can find his or her own place in the world. — Haruki Murakami

The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. Harry lay there, lost for — J.K. Rowling

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal. — James A. Baldwin

God is a placebo for your own mortality. — Robert Barron

Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/ ... No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you. — Sizzla

Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture. — Orson Scott Card

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that. — Amy Chua

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information. — Teller

He tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard. — Kurt Vonnegut

The trick to surviving with low funds is to not have such high standards. — Simon Rich

I promise you. I promise you the stars. I promise you the lake and falls, coywolves and robins. I promise earth and heaven: I will love you long after the last human has taken his last breath. When the stars burn out and the oceans freeze over and the whole world is ash and dust and ice, our names will still be carved into this tree of life, side by side, and I'll still be loving you. — Emily Henry

One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear of the future. If there wasn't, none of the religions could invoke this important thing - that science has no evidence of, by the way - called free will. — Greg Graffin

I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there — Woody Guthrie