Reader Michael Berg Quotes & Sayings

Inspiration awakens our creativity, enables us to do the impossible, and improves our mental efficiency. It fires up the soul. — Farshad Asl

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated — Binyavanga Wainaina

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. — Rene Descartes

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man. — Plato

The worst part? Knowing that since a book this moving, this enthralling and enveloping comes along, as I said, only every once in a while, it will be many, many moons until we see its like again. - Sara Nelson — Amazon Books Editors

The windy sky
Cries out a literate despair. — Wallace Stevens

Some of us try desperately to hold on to ourselves, to live for ourselves. We look so bedraggled and pathetic doing it, hanging on to the dead branch of a bank account for dear life, afraid to risk ourselves on the untried wings of giving. We don't think we can live generously because we have never tried. But the sooner we start the better, for we are going to have to give up our lives finally, and the longer we wait the less time we have for the soaring and swooping life of grace. — Eugene H. Peterson

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul. — Dean Koontz

That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. — Malcolm X

It wasn't like he was purposely being an asshole. It just came naturally to him. — R.L. Mathewson

But then one morning when I'd been on night shift, she miscarried suddenly and severely. The doctor said it seemed as though she had provoked it herself. I found that hard to believe, given how much she'd been looking forward to having the baby. At any rate, there were large blue bruises on her abdomen. But it's impossible to know about these things. There are a lot of mixed feelings involved when a woman faces raising an unplanned child on her own. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

the question hung there like an invisible wall of flatulence — Neal Stephenson

As long as you can walk the street and you know there's a tomorrow, there's always that chance. That's how I've always been. I've always had complete belief that I would make something out of myself again, because to me, it's always been about accomplishment. — Andrew Dice Clay

First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor' of mankind. Since his new benevolence has a practical foundation, that the left hand should not know what the right hand giveth; no, whether he likes it or not, he must reconcile himself to letting as many people as possible know how deeply he feels the sufferings of the masses and all the sacrifices that he himself is making to combat them. — Adolf Hitler

The way people used to kiss before the age of historical materialism. — Ilya Ilf