Quotes 441 till 460 of 489.
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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
The Name of the Rose (2014) 120 -
We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
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What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
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What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
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