Deveren Bookwalters Age Quotes & Sayings

We read classics to flood the xenosphere with irrelevant words and thoughts, a firewall of knowledge that even makes its way to the subconscious of the customer. — Tade Thompson

This, I am reminded, is why I love walking in the city, taking to the streets in pursuit of some spontaneous and near-arbitrary objectives. If one knocks oneself out of one's routine- and in so doing knocks others gently out of theirs- then one can now and again create these momentary opportunities to be better than one is — Kathleen Rooney

New ideas often need old buildings. — Jane Jacobs

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape. — Angela Carter

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among. — Alain De Botton

Of course, when poking the Winter prince,
one had to proceed with caution. There was a fine line
between irritation and having icicles hurled at your
face. — Julie Kagawa

One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done
for — Virginia Woolf

It is of vast consequence how ministers discharge their office, and conduct themselves towards their people in the work of the ministry, and in affairs appertaining to it. 'Tis also a matter of vast importance, how a people receive and entertain a faithful minister of Christ, and what improvement they make of his ministry. — Jonathan Edwards

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing. — Neville Goddard

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate. — Archibald Alexander

I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events. — Joel Greenblatt

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them. — Red Smith

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. — Oriana Fallaci

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58) — Nicole Krauss