Quotes - June (june_krell) (Silver Spring, MD) Showing 1-30 of 2,142

#1

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#2

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

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#3

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

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#4

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

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#5

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

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#6

“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton

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#7

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

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#8

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: future, grammar, language, past

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#9

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

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#10

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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#11

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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#12

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
― Astrid Lindgren

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#13

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: truth

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#14

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#15

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

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#16

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

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#17

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

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#18

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: music, power-of-music

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#19

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

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#21

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

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#23

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
― Vaclav Havel

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#24

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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#25

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

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#26

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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