Gekoski Quotes & Sayings

Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of love. — Rick Gekoski

I'm burning to my bones. Beyond — Katy Evans

When you have something good ... When you have something good, you don't play with it! You don't take chances with it! You don't take risks with it! When you got something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Because guess what? When you take care of something good, that something good takes care of you. — Eric Thomas

Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is a divine prism through which they can all be studied. The Holy Eucharist is, indeed, 'Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today, and the same forever' (Heb 13:8). In this Sacrament He glorifies all the mysteries of His life and prolongs, as it were, the exercise of all His virtues. The Eucharist is, in a word, the great Mystery of our faith to which all Catholic truths lead — Peter Julian Eymard

The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it's not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that's not your problem either. — Noam Chomsky

No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator. — Emanuel Swedenborg

I wish that we would not fight for landscapes that remind us of who we think we are. I wish we would fight, instead, for landscapes buzzing and glowing with life in all its variousness. — Helen Macdonald

I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that. — Todd Akin

To achieve results. This is the only true measure of a team P.42 — Patrick Lencioni

Bruises go away, Tyler. Scars stick around to prove you showed up for life. That you lived. That you fought. That you loved. — Adriana Locke

To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self. — Rick Gekoski

What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully understand - the inward world of another person. — Rick Gekoski

To take a screenshot of the content currently displayed on your Kindle Paperwhite, tap the upper right and lower left corners of the screen at the same time, and immediately release. The screen will flash to indicate that the screenshot was taken, and the image will be stored in the base folder of the Kindle. You can retrieve and view the images on your computer when you connect your Kindle to your computer via a USB cable. — Bohner, Carl

You can't simply put a book down or away. — Rick Gekoski

The question is," Harry whispered, trying desperately to joke, "whether it's better to be dead from the neck up or the neck down," and the doctor smiled, knowing Harry was protecting himself with his sense of irony. — Morley Callaghan