Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Related Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n... J. SWARTZ Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n... WILLIAM STYRON The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative atti... JOEL OSTEEN This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die. MEGAN CREWE Yeah, there are no weapons. But there are weapons and that is your physical capacity. That's sport. ... CLARA HUGHES Laws die, Books never. EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Let go of Osama Bin Laden, let go of books where bombs go off and people die, let go of this war you... LAVIE TIDHAR You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! STEVEN MOFFAT You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! THE DOCTOR I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because ev... ERRI DE LUCA Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback books, mostly intro. ... JOSHUA ISARD Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. LYNDON B. JOHNSON Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio... JOE QUEENAN Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch. MARCUS AURELIUS [I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. ... JUDY BLUME No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. POPE PAUL VI Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo... JULIAN BARNES Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people ... JOSH LIEB The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we... CAROLYN WELLS Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons an... JEFFREY SKOLL We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w... CORY DOCTOROW Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. MALALA YOUSAFZAI Never underrate the power of books,by the time you get old & become idle,one thing that can keep you... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read... CAROLYN WELLS People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know,... JOHN SCALZI Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do beli... ELIF SAFAK Books are but messengers,
what we do with that messages?
we stack it and make no use of it. BRADLEY B. DALINA Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they rema... LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy. CRISS JAMI When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not th... DIANE RAVITCH Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that o... ANATOLE FRANCE Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not co... SUZY KASSEM I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but bea... DONNA LEON I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books ar... JOHN GREEN Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched p... WALTER LIPPMANN The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for k... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying ... RICHARD STALLMAN I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved... JACKSON PEARCE No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books y... RAY BRADBURY Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - B... ITALO CALVINO “Art is everything you see. Boardgames are art, songs are art, books are art, art is a precious th... J C A ROWE There's now an avalanche of poker books coming out. We have a reputation for putting out the very be... MASON MALMUTH Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind. PAUL TSONGAS Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a... ROBERT M. GATES Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. MARK TWAIN It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, t... TERRY PRATCHETT Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff i... KATHRYN ERSKINE If you read all your history books, there are no women in them. CAITLIN MORAN In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo... ITALO CALVINO Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors. ELIZABETH KNOX I don't want my own son to die, but this is a war and we must be in it together. High and low. Rich ... JULIAN FELLOWES Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to k... NEIL GAIMAN I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that c... MAO ZEDONG Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that c... MAO TSE-TUNG Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old book... AIDAN CHAMBERS In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. GEORGE S. PATTON The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. GENERAL PATTERSON (WWII) In comparing men and books, one must always remember this important distinction,-that one can put th... NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them. JOHN CONNOLLY All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... ROBERT HARRIS I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's ... NANCY GARDEN The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But ... LEO TOLSTOY Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, ... MALALA YOUSAFZAI [T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels... PAUL AUSTER The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
With equal car... SIR WILLIAM BROWNE I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelme... CHETAN BHAGAT It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. JO WALTON I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ... RAY BRADBURY We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be ... SUE TOWNSEND Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objecti... ANTONIO GRAMSCI She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe et... ANNIE DILLARD All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.For filth, I'm glad to say, is in th... TOM LEHRER GoodReads is fabulous fun, and the best reviews are so illuminating. I love the reviews ... WILLIAM DONELSON Thank you for the friendship! Yes, GoodReads is fabulous fun, and the best reviews are so illuminati... WILLIAM DONELSON No one wants to lead people to people to victory and be the first to be killed. No one wants to be i... NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copie... SUSAN ORLEAN Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint. MARKUS HERZ Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them. YAJUR VEDA Don't die with the music on your tongue unsung! Don't die with the apps in your mind undesigned... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Free... JAMES PATTERSON You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it... BILL WATTERSON I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of an... C.S. LEWIS She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which ca... ROBERTSON DAVIES And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural w... VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then ... JEANETTE WINTERSON Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil... DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM Life's irony;If reading 50 books can procure long life,then the majority of humans will rather die p... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of w... DAN GROAT Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it hel... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (Nathaniel) Hawthorne's books were potboilers in their time and became part of the literary establis... HENRY JENKINS [Nathaniel Hawthorne's books were] potboilers in their time and became part of the literary establis... HENRY JENKINS
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themsel... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 19... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative
effort. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing to fear is fear itself. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which par... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is fun to be in the same decade with you. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - name... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations,
on faithful prote... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT the first war of the 21st century. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT a poverty-ridden old age. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We should never forge those that did not return, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT greatly impressed. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business,... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it ... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I love it--I just love it. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early wor... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the f... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a s... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT