Pg 151 Quotes

#1. From the time I was a baby, my mom took me to the library at least once a week. Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books.
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Rachel Cohn

#2. Love is very difficult to understand. And do you know why? Because love is the most idiotic thing in the universe, Tommy, but also the most important. That's why it's so hard to understand.
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Albert Sanchez Pinol

#3. If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.

Walter Russell

#4. A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.

Robert Aris Willmott

#5. I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they will master writing overnight, or that they are as good as they will ever be.

Tananarive Due

#6. It wasn't what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous.

Francine Rivers

#7. The introduction of the word 'intuition' by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#8. All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.

S.L. Viehl

#9. Twenty thousand days and nights in one place, each layered and trapped and folded on top of the last, the creases in her hands, the aches between her vertebrae. Embryo, seed coat, endosperm: What is a seed if not the purest kind of memory, a link to every generation that has gone before it?

Anthony Doerr

#10. I have always liked sport and only played or run races for the fun of the thing.

Jim Thorpe

#11. It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Charles Stanley

#12. Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in ... I love you

Steven Strait

#13. Don't you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies ...

Samuel B. Southwell

#14. When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

Dogen

#15. Christ loved me enough to die for me while I was yet His enemy. If God had waited for me to learn to love Him before He died, I would never have been saved. I knew that with my head, but when I met someone who behaved in such a completely Christlike way, I was amazed. - Helen Roseveare

Noel Piper

#16. This bastard was in a self-help program? For what? Square-jawed, cleft-chin sufferers? Handsome Bastards Anonymous?

Susan Juby

#17. It's fine. I'm fine. Unravel your boxer shorts.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#18. Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

Angelo Dundee

#19. Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

John Wooden