The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
LAURA BUSHCricket – a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
More 3rd Baron Mancroft, Benjamin Mancroft Quotes
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
RALPH ELLISON -
All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.
MEHER BABA -
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
CORETTA SCOTT KING -
An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT -
The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
RICHARD DAWKINS -
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
ISAAC ASIMOV -
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
BELLA ABZUG -
I love the farm, I love growing stuff.
BILL KREUTZMANN -
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
ERIC HOFFER -
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
ERMA BOMBECK -
When will the leaves begin to change in this body of mine?
MILA ALEXANDROVNA -
I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
EARTHA KITT -
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
ADA LEVERSON -
Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
KURT VONNEGUT -
When we communicate gratitude, we can be filled with the Spirit and connected to those around us and the Lord. Gratitude inspires happiness and carries divine influence.
BONNIE D. PARKIN -
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
BERNARD CRICK -
If you love what you have, you have everything you need.
HEI-RAN PARK -
If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.
HERSCHEL WALKER -
I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H. P. LOVECRAFT -
In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
JOE DIMAGGIO -
Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
BEN FELDMAN -
Nothing can give you lifelong happiness & peace other than your family.
LILY DIAZ -
Time is all we have and don’t.
ATTICUS -
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
ROLLO MAY -
[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.
TA-NEHISI COATES