Bookriot Quotes & Sayings

There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art. — Becky Chambers

My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it. — Hugh Prather

I didn't tell him I was a virgin, just that I hadn't done it 'that much.' It hurt a little more than I'd expected but in a different way, and he was nervous too and he never came. Afterwards we lay there and talked, and I could tell he was a really nice person. I commended myself for making a healthy, albeit hasty, partner choice. I really couldn't wait to tell my mom. — Lena Dunham

The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures — Leo Tolstoy

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them. — Lee Scott

Always my collections are made of different influences. — Jean Paul Gaultier

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. — Walter Scott

Even the king's Erkynguard might have wished to be elsewhere, rather than here on this killing ground where duty brought them and loyalty prisoned them. Only the mercenaries were here by choice. To Simon, the minds of men who would come to this of their own will were suddenly as incomprehensible as the thoughts of spiders or lizards - less so, even, for the small creatures of the earth almost always fled from danger. These were madmen, Simon realized, and that was the direst problem of the world: that madmen should be strong and unafraid, so that they could force their will on the weak and peace-loving. If God allowed such madness to be, Simon could not help thinking, then He was an old god who had lost His grip. — Tad Williams

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway. — Gerhard Schroder

Every time you praise something, every time you appreciate something, every time you feel good about something, you are telling the Universe, "More of this, Please." You need never again make another verbal statement of this intent, and if you were allowing your cork to float - all good things would flow to you. — Abraham Hicks

Prejudice is not a symptom of stupidity. Nor is it a symptom of evil. It is merely a symptom of ignorance. — The Prophet Of Life

Oh, the joy-hogs! Oh 'enjoying oneself'! Another modern form of sickness. — D.H. Lawrence

I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity - not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour - but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good. — Robert Owen

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013) — Neil Gaiman