Book Quotes - Page 3

Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats!

You are a great deal of trouble, Jace herondale. “So I’ve been told” jace said

Monk worked on his remaining Intertect cases at his dining table while I tried to hone my detecting instincts by reading the Murder, She Wrote novel he bought in Mill Valley.I can't say that I learned much about investigative procedure but I discovered that you should stay far away from Cabot Cove. That tiny New England village is deadlier than Beirut, South Central Los Angeles, and the darkest back alley in Juarez combined. Even though every killer eventually gets caught by Jessica Fletcher, I still wouldn't feel safe there. I'm surprised the old biddy walks around town unarmed.

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

The longest road to finding yourself is the one that begins at home, and ends at your home.

Made to observe the vastness of our world, the greater breadth and depth of stars unfurled, the mind can grasp an order and a plan and ponder the deep question, "Who is man?

Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don’t just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines...

A book is a journey. Journeys need their voyagers, and voyagers require a diversity of scenes; experiences.

In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude.

A wiry crewman named Kobis sat at the end of a couch, reading a book in the low light, clearly relishing the closest thing he ever found to peace and quiet

Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.

I sit down by the river.Its incessant flow has polished the rocks carried from the top of the mountain. The aqueous caress, that has unrolled for millions of years the liquid ribbon from the summits towards the plains, keeps the freshness of the youth.The July sun heats the trees on the shore, while the stream of water refreshes the air; Two breaths which mingle without opposing one another. The foliage softly sways under the summer breeze, tuning its movement to that of the fiery wave.Won by a palpable peace, thank you Mother Nature, I dive into my book.A time later, which seems infinite to me, the sky becomes darker, I raise my head.How many hours have passed during which, indifferent to the human time, the cascading water has descended from the mountain? How much water has passed in front of me? How many beings have quenched their thirst there, and get their lives out from it?How long after my small passage on Earth will have been forgotten, the river will continue to flow, to carry its rocks, to erode the mountain until it becomes a plain, to spread life like a vein of the Earth ?

Tallis is a beautiful and terrible thing. Fearsome and alluring. Just like the forest in many ways... but it's written all over that handsome, pale face of yours; you like her.

I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other."He's right. We did.The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.

As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.

The presence of the Lord destroys a life of struggle. You will struggle until you encounter His presence.

If you don't make history, you just become history!

A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible

Love?” Michael smiled down at his hands. “Love, real love, is being seen. Being known. Knowing the ugliest part of someone, and loving them anyway. And . . . I guess I think two people in love become something else, something more than the sum of their parts, you know? That it must be like you’re creating a new world that exists just for the two of you. You’re gods of your own pocket universe.” He laughed a little then, as if he felt foolish. “That must sound ridiculous.” “No,” Robert said, the truth dawning over him. Michael didn’t talk like someone who was guessing—he talked like someone who knew.

July 22, 2009At times I still feel lost, but I also feel the comfort of my Lord through the physical pain and the mental challenges. I know He’s there. I can feel Him in the sun beaming down on my brown skin. It feels like love and comfort. It feels like He’s holding me when I suffer and I’m not alone.

So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.

I yearned for the woman who could bring me to my knees then raise me up again, making me stronger than before.

I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading.

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.

Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery.

I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender and lying, formal and incurable. He exhausts all the loves given to him. If I did not leave his house at night to warm myself in Rango's burning hands I would die at my task, arid and barren, sapless, while my father monologues about his past, and I yawn yawn yawn...

वक्रतुंड महाकाय कोटिसूर्यसमप्रभ।निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा॥“Lord Ganesh of curved elephant trunk and huge body,Whose brilliance is equal to billions of suns in intensity,Always removes all obstacles from my endeavours truly,I respectfully pray to him with all my revered sincerity.

You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish.There is my desert.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?

Everything I try to hide ends up screaming from a mountaintop.

So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things.

IF YOU AIN'T RAISING THE VIBRATION YOU ARE KILLING THE VIBE!

The Bible, most influential book, which have the ability to transform many lives.

People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.

In afew hours, she’ll see Anna for herself. She’ll seeher dressed in blood, her hair floating like it’ssuspended in water, eyes black and shining. Andwhen she does, she won’t be able to catch herbreath.

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

A world without books would be a world not worth living in.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

A book is a collected thoughts and lessons in one place, a quote is a lesson which is learnt.

Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down

Michelle felt that if people didn’t like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.

No one OWES you a THING. So don’t EXPECT it. You’re on your OWN.

Energy is a being yet is not. For it to materialise it must be pure thus it turns into a crystal like form.That is the true being of the Elders and the Three Immortal Blades.And your body has been cursed with it.”Max Jacket- The Three Immortal Blades

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.

Every book has its ancestors

The sexiest thing about a man is the he can make a woman smile even when she thinks there is nothing to smile about.

Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul?...It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man.