George W. Bush Quotes, Book Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Look, history is interesting. I read three books on George Washington last year. And my opinion is that if they're still analyzing the first president, the 43rd president ought to be doing what he thinks is right. And eventually, historians will come and realize whether... the decisions I made made sense.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Miracle Quotes

Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today. The Lord of the Universe has treated us so well in the past years that we bow in gratitude to a providence which has allowed us to be members of such a great nation. We thank Him that we also can be entered with honor into the ever-lasting book of German history!

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Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Book Quotes

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Fighting Quotes

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Book Quotes , Depth Quotes

A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Fall Quotes

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.

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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

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