Bookreading Quotes & Sayings

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God. — Tom Stoppard

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. — Walter Benjamin

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty. — Wendell Phillips

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. — Benjamin Disraeli

Fear of death is worse than death itself... — Gosho Aoyama

Literature recounts history, explores knowledge, narrates universal themes of human existence, actives human conscience, enhances understanding of human motives, and explicates the nuances of human behavior. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house. — Orison Swett Marden

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do. — Alex Newell

God indeed can be reached directly, for there is no distance between Him and His Son. His awareness is in everyone's memory, and His Word is written on everyone's heart. Yet this awareness and this memory can arise across the threshold of recognition only where all barriers to truth have been removed. — Foundation For Inner Peace

You will give birth to more in the future than you've lost in the past. — Joel Osteen