Mankell Books Quotes & Sayings

I tell you, before the cock crows, you will deny Me three times. Every thought of your Self as smaller than you really are is a denial of Me. Every word about your Self that puts you down is a denial of Me. Every action flowing through your Self that plays out a role of "not-good-enough," or lack, or insufficiency of any kind, is a denial indeed. Not just in thought, not just in word, but in deed. — Neale Donald Walsch

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read. — Henning Mankell

If you are a good person who does good things when you have only a little, then you will be a good person who does even more good things when you have a lot. — Larry Winget

In my mind, being overdressed is not a bad thing at all. What's the worst case scenario? That you are the best-dressed person in the room? Who cares! — Rachel Zoe

If you're going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful? — Elizabeth Gilbert

I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it. — Henning Mankell

I'd have to Google that later, although knowing Google that would only scare me further. — Micalea Smeltzer

So, 'reaper' is really just a nice word for 'covert pervert?' Is that what you're saying? — Rachel Vincent

Can you get me home by nine?" His grin widened. "Isolde, my friend, I can get you back by quarter 'til. — Rachel Hawkins

Do you realize that you will not only wreck your civilization, such as it is, and kill most of your people; but that you will also poison the fish in your rivers, the squirrels in your trees, the flocks of birds, the soil, the water? There are times when you seem, to us, like apes loose in a museum, carrying knives, slashing the canvases, breaking the statuary with hammers. — Walter Tevis

Hate is a cancer on one's soul. — Frank Sonnenberg

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice. — Dominique Pire

The Christian is a [person] of joy ... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces. — William Barclay

In a cute relationship you will always have cutest fights without any reason — Pawan Mehra

The question of how much English should be used in international research universities is one with which I am extremely familiar. I would even say I am deeply puzzled by this trend. I am not certain what the correct answer should be. — Henry Rosovsky

Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

American literature has always been immigrant. — Salman Rushdie