Kylene Quotes & Sayings

Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more. — Kylene Beers

It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. — Hugh Campbell

Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully. — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

He's a very, very sensitive guy. That's one of the things that makes his antisocial behavior, his rudeness, so unconscionable. I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be rude, but not sensitive people. I once asked him why he gets so mad about stuff. He said, "But I don't stay mad." He has this very childish ability to get really worked up about something, and it doesn't stay with him at all. But there are other times, I think honestly, when he's very frustrated, and his way to achieve catharsis is to hurt somebody. And I think he feels he has a liberty and a license to do that. The normal rules of social engagement, he feels, don't apply to him. Because of how very sensitive he is, he knows exactly how to efficiently and effectively hurt someone. And he does do that. — Walter Isaacson

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. — Michel De Montaigne

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. — John Stuart Mill

A well lived life is purpose filled — Blake L. Higginbotham

Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard. — Joseph Murphy

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves. — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb. — Lamar S. Smith

World change comes from within. — Amy Richards

People come out to rough me up because they think I'm not going to play well. And maybe when I was in my teen years it worked well. But I'm used to it now. — Lauren Jackson