Fahrenheit 451 Book Burning Quotes & Sayings

Do not look around to discover other people's ruling principles, but look straight to this, to what nature leads you, both the universal nature through which things happen to you, and your own nature through the acts which must be done by you. — Marcus Aurelius

While we are all in the process of becoming as ever-changing, ever-evolving beings ... it's essential to remember that we are also enough, just as we are, right now, in this moment. When we are able to accept ourselves as we are, we are better able to accept others, as they are. Personal growth thrives in an environment of love, acceptance and forgiveness. — Jaeda DeWalt

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now. — Mark Zuckerberg

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. — David Hare

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man. — Alison Bechdel

Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you don't own from the library and then return them. — Rich Sommer

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear. — Peter Benchley

I'm bad for you. I told you I will break you and I will. I wish I knew how not to. I can't. I'm sorry. You have to take me like this ... — Mercy Cortez

When I reread it as a teenager, Fahrenheit 451 had become a book about independence, about thinking for yourself. It was about treasuring books and the dissent inside the covers of books. It was about how we as humans begin by burning books and end by burning people. — Ray Bradbury

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe. — Carrie Brownstein

Although I'm seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We all make mistakes... but it's also a step in the right direction. If nothing else it's a step away from the wrong one. — Adam Silvera

Odd how food and water and a clean body - and a few moments of rest - lead me into philosophy. — Greg Bear

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. — Jane Hirshfield

I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours. — Sarah Vaughan

The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner. — Deborah Day