Books Containing Quotes

#1. Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Jeff Wheeler

#2. A passionate activity is one you're doing without regard for time.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#3. The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled
Was convincing women that they looked
Better in their makeup

Macklemore

#4. But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.

James Lee Burke

#5. Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

Jamie Farr

#6. SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

August Sander

#8. God's star promised peace to the whole world ... too often man's synthetic stars bring fear and anxiety. Our gadget-filled paradise, suspended in a hell of international insecurity, certainly does not offer us the happiness of which the last century dreamed. But there is still a star in the sky.

Billy Graham

#9. Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are.

Dannion Brinkley

#10. Even the worst of men was someone else's brother, child, parent, lover.

Taylor Stevens

#11. The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

Joseph Lancaster

#12. I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.

Abbey Clancy

#13. We just make music. For I never stop working.

Dennis Brown

#14. Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.

Price Pritchett

#15. It's not just the books Alba craves, it's standing inside a place that houses millions of them. Libraries are Alba's churches, and the university library, containing one edition of every book ever published in England, is her cathedral.

Menna Van Praag

#16. Tell me, what are your intentions with my granddaughter. She's never had a boyfriend, you know.
Yes, ma'am. I am aware.
And did you have anything to do with that?
The corner of his mouth lifted in a half grin. I might have.
Why?
Because she's mine.

B.B. Reid

#17. No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher.

Evelyn Waugh

#18. A.: Whatever; you must know how it works. An artifact containing... raw feelings, unprocessed sights and sounds and pains that the brain interprets- is that too crazy?
DR. BELKNAP: No. It has existed for thousands of years. It's called a book.

Edgar Cantero

#19. When you get in a snit, don't hit

David Ezra Stein

#20. It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.

Og Mandino

#21. Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

Jillian Hervey