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Alice Hoffman

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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
AIDAN CHAMBERS
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
JANE AUSTEN
And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much...
EMILY MAGUIRE
the sentence im reading is terrific ...
J.D. SALINGER
On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, t...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all...
CHARLES T. MUNGER
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
GILBERT MURRAY
Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the re...
BEN ABIX
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN
I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I form...
TAHEREH MAFI
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and rob...
CHINA MIéVILLE
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
ITALO CALVINO
It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right t...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, be...
NORA EPHRON
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK
He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK
I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK
Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK
I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK
I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK
It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK
Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK
Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be...
SAINT IGNATIUS
I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,...
SAINT IGNATIUS
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagati...
SAINT IGNATIUS
We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar...
SAINT IGNATIUS
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w...
SAINT IGNATIUS
In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
SAINT IGNATIUS
In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju...
SAINT IGNATIUS
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
SAINT IGNATIUS
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
SAINT IGNATIUS
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
SAINT IGNATIUS
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je...
SAINT IGNATIUS
If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
SAINT BERNARD
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
SAINT BERNARD
Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD
I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
SAINT BERNARD
A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ...
SAINT BERNARD
Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in...
SAINT BERNARD
Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ...
SAINT BERNARD
That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
SAINT BERNARD
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin...
SAINT BERNARD
You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
SAINT BERNARD
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a...
SAINT BERNARD
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al...
SAINT BERNARD
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
SAINT BERNARD
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
SAINT BERNARD
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinar...
SAINT BASIL
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enqu...
SAINT BASIL
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
SAINT BASIL
We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not s...
SAINT BASIL
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individua...
SAINT BASIL
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control ov...
SAINT BASIL
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a ...
SAINT BASIL
To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
SAINT BASIL
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you ...
SAINT BASIL
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
SAINT BASIL
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
SAINT BASIL
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
SAINT BASIL
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our h...
SAINT BASIL
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who do...
SAINT BASIL
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itsel...
SAINT BASIL
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does n...
SAINT BASIL
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
SAINT BASIL
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes ex...
SAINT BASIL
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whate...
SAINT AMBROSE
It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard agains...
SAINT AMBROSE
The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
SAINT AMBROSE
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my li...
SAINT AMBROSE
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that th...
SAINT AMBROSE
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
SAINT AMBROSE
In some causes silence is dangerous.
SAINT AMBROSE
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especi...
SAINT AMBROSE

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Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to sca...
REID HOFFMAN
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
REID HOFFMAN
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
REID HOFFMAN
Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
REID HOFFMAN
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really po...
REID HOFFMAN
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Act...
REID HOFFMAN
If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumpi...
PAUL HOFFMAN
Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in...
PAUL HOFFMAN
There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then...
MARY HOFFMAN
The city took it upon themselves to reclaim the site for reuse. It was never approved by the agencie...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year.
ANDREW HOFFMAN
(The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone....
ANDREW HOFFMAN
As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it.
ANDREW HOFFMAN
I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything.
ANDREW HOFFMAN
If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources...
REID HOFFMAN
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive...
PAUL HOFFMAN
That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.
BETH HOFFMAN
I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN
I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).
ANNELISE HOFFMAN
I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN
We do more routines as the regional gets closer.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN
Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible...
AMANDA HOFFMAN
People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes...
AMANDA HOFFMAN
We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
AMANDA HOFFMAN
Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug.
AMANDA HOFFMAN
We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.
AMANDA HOFFMAN
All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.
AMANDA HOFFMAN
It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your...
AMANDA HOFFMAN
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN
Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow...
REID HOFFMAN
The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ...
REID HOFFMAN