Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they always have a shoulder for us to cry on or relieve stress. They take our minds away from the real world by telling us captivating stories. When we look back at our choice of books, we can nostalgically recall our younger years.
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Related We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books w... CORY DOCTOROW We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us. ANNIE BARROWS We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have ... OSWALD CHAMBERS We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I gu... LIBBA BRAY Inner strength of our character can never be taken away from us. If we focus on our character, our r... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Our contention is that they kept telling us that they couldn't pay us because they haven't gotten pa... GEOFFREY HARPER Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, ... MALALA YOUSAFZAI Whatever form they take, families are our most time-honoured settings for giving and receiving love,... DR BRIAN BABINGTON Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wis... CARL SAGAN We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda... BEN OLIVEIRA It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction w... LEIGH HUNT Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With... VINCENT VAN GOGH They can take our homes, our possessions. Our families. Our lives. They can drive us out, like they'... AMY HARMON I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a ... JODI PICOULT Strength of Your character can never be taken away. If we focus on our character, our reputation wil... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-inte... RICHARD DOOLING Founders never leave our memories for they leave indelible footprints on our minds. They give us the... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. MICHAEL MORPURGO Or, do you think that the Fellows of the Cave and the Inscription were of Our wonderful signs? / Whe... QURAN What they teach you as history is mythology, and true mythology is far from fantasy - every kind rev... SUZY KASSEM Our customers are telling us that they want to be able to download music tracks directly to their ph... BOB FULLER So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside l... STEPHEN KING The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave... JAY KRISTOFF Our challenges are not the enemy. They help us take charge; once we take charge, it creates discipli... CHARLENA JACKSON Everyday in practice, they are always talking about how dusty the banner is, how it's time for a new... DAEQUAN COOK Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes fo... DREXEL DEAL Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where... SUSAN J. TWEIT They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us ... KAMAND KOJOURI The Wise
(Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from their gr... EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude o... RICHARD DOOLING Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what w... ANN RINALDI The stories strike a chord deep within us, ... They take us back home, back to our roots. BOB MYERS Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we... BEN SHAPIRO ...So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadsid... STEPHEN KING All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe... PETER DAVID What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us,... NOORILHUDA The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we... CAROLYN WELLS We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about whic... C.S. LEWIS Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. MALALA YOUSAFZAI Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical ap... MARTHA BECK We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives c... TARRYN FISHER Don't you ever wonder why we say we're giving someone our heart and not our liver or some other orga... JOY MANISCALCO Our father always said, 'She'll come back to us,' JAMES ROBERTS Friends are like sails – they help shield us against storms and provide the force that helps direc... BROWNELL LANDRUM Whether they realized it or not, they were doubting possibility, and the unknown. They believed I wo... SHREVE STOCKTON Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ... CARL SAGAN The people who run the circus kidnapped us from our parents. Since we got here, we have all been wor... MAGDA M. OLCHAWSKA God and Destiny are not against us, rather they are for us, they are the ones who never forget the t... C. JOYBELL C. Sure it stings to lose the game. But, nothing will ever take away our county championship. We all ca... JOE CROCCO Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man u... WILKIE COLLINS It defies understanding, from our perspective. One can speculate, one, that the ACLU has been captur... BOB BORK We all wish something or other in our life in our own way, but God have other plans and they are bes... PRAVIN AGARWAL We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew membe... DAVID NEELEMAN It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr... GARY F EVANS... Look at all the terrible things people with power have done throughout the years. Is this why the go... RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age. They take root in us as we g... TAHEREH MAFI Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are u... ALBERT EINSTEIN Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT More of our customers are telling us they want to try open source but that they have concerns. PHILIP ROBINSON If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own,... THOMAS MERTON And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguis... BIBLE We can quiet our minds enough to tune in to what our bodies are telling us - I believe in angels - a... ZOE MCLELLAN The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read... CAROLYN WELLS ...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It ... ALEXANDRE DUMAS Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL We took the path that led others nowhere and only we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. They wa... AKSHAY VASU American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our cult... ROBERT KENNEDY We also have our own library, because sometimes seniors forget about taking books back and they have... CAROLYN COATES To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to tr... JUNE JORDAN Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer tha... DON MIGUEL RUIZ We have so many filters that seem required for our experience of life, but instead of helping us, wh... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close... NICK TROUT Human emotions are our devils," Cheveyo said. "They tease us with things we can't have, torture us w... JAIME RUSH We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us... ADAM BRAUN We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these
decisions upon the aware... GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at time... HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we ar... FRANÇOIS FÉNÉLON These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life. VIRAJ J. MAHAJAN We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what i... ALBERTO MANGUEL We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon ... L.M. BROWNING For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that o... ANNE LAMOTT Like we've always said, we have a lot of guys that score from anywhere on the court at any time. Our... DUANE PETERSON We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot... JEAN PAUL RICHTER We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot... JEAN PAUL Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because t... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I believe in one that all people are dreaming. This now, past and future is just a long dream, some ... DEYTH BANGER We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings abou... DONNA GODDARD The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play an... JUDITH KOHNEN When Suzie introduced Helen, she told the audience that one of the best things about books is that t... ELIZABETH BERG Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken; they are ou... HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Woul... MODERATA FONTE I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't ... UMBERTO ECO We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different becaus... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that ... JOHN CONNOLLY Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pag... KURT VONNEGUT JR. They took us out of our offense, and that hurt us. After that, we never got in sync. KATHY CLARK Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate.... CORY BOOKER We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a di... DAVID BELLE
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A covering skin and a lining skin,
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He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.
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evils.
[Lat., Gula plures occidit q... OLD SONG The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
That all the year eats neither partridge not qu... OLD SONG In good King Charles's golden days
When royalty no harm meant,
A zealous high-churchman was I,... OLD SONG Over the hills and o'er the main,
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,
Queen Anne commands and we'... OLD SONG When this old cap was new
'Tis since two hundred years. OLD SONG Old Rose is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;
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in adversity. OLD SONG Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone. OLD SONG An injury may prove a blessing. OLD SONG Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey. OLD SONG A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man
sickens. OLD SONG A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it. OLD SONG A gift in time of need is most acceptable. OLD SONG A credulous thing is love. OLD SONG A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light. OLD SONG A bitter drug oft brings relief. OLD SONG Old soldiers never die;
They fade away! OLD SONG St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France.
Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense." OLD SONG A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety. OLD SONG Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found. OLD SONG We are pleased to add AOS to our expanding base of customers. We look forward to supporting AOS with... JAE SONG Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. XIAODONG SONG Eighteen is a great finishing hole. You have to hit two great shots and set it up for an eagle. It's... AREE SONG I didn't even really want to go for it, but my caddie convinced me. AREE SONG I got off to a slow start a little bit and I just started going on the back. The course is playing p... AREE SONG I played pretty good overall. I got off to a slow start a little bit and I just started going on the... AREE SONG This course, the way the greens are rolling, they're rolling pretty true even though they're a littl... AREE SONG That's kind of cool to be a veteran at 19. I don't really mind. My goal is to be the best in the wor... AREE SONG Well everything went as planned today pretty much. I hit a lot of fairways and a lot of greens and m... 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What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le... ERICA JONG You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dum... ERICA JONG Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. T... ERICA JONG Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. ... ERICA JONG There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love ERICA JONG Book is the new cool for the txt generation ERICA WAGNER The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecr... ERICA JONG I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despit... ERICA JONG Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. ERICA JONG Men and women, women and men; it will never work. ERICA JONG To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right... ERICA JONG Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, lov... ERICA JONG Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ERICA JONG Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vaca... ERICA JONG Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ERICA JONG Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being... ERICA JONG Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. ERICA JONG My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. A... ERICA JONG Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. Am... ERICA JONG Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. 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Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to ... ERICA EISDORFER If you don't risk anything you risk even more. ERICA JONG My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to ... ERICA JONG We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies,... ERICA JONG Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. ERICA JONG When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they w... ERICA JONG Solitude is un-American. ERICA JONG Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywoo... ERICA JONG Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. ERICA JONG People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don... ERICA JONG We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. 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ERICA ASH Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pre... ERICA JONG Men and women, women and men. It will never work. ERICA JONG Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me ... ERICA JONG Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. Th... ERICA JONG My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, ... ERICA JONG A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passiv... ERICA JONG The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life i... ERICA JONG Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ERICA JONG Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it le... ERICA JONG And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ERICA JONG Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a g... ERICA EISDORFER If you're servant enough, you can shrink into the shadows, even in the bright morning sun and even i... ERICA EISDORFER I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, les... ERICA EISDORFER I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the fac... ERICA EISDORFER Love is everything it's cracked up to be
It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking ... ERICA JONG There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhap... ERICA JONG Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for ... ERICA JONG Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man. ERICA JONG Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. ERICA JONG And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ERICA JONG Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed ERICA JONG It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. ERICA JONG The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think... ERICA JONG What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from th... ERICA JONG My most memorable recognition story was in Venice, Italy. My fiance and I were renting a car, and I ... ERICA CERRA Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to ... ERICA JONG Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the ve... ERICA JONG I know a lot of people recognize me or know me from 'Battlestar Galactica,' but I only did a... ERICA CERRA We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion ERICA JONG I tell myself I have time. But the itch forming along the back of my neck and across my shoulders sa... ERICA CAMERON In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years... ERICA JONG Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If th... ERICA JONG I see the glow before I see her. The orange light is so strong it’s hard to believe the house isn�... ERICA CAMERON Holy shit. I’m a Smurf. ERICA CAMERON It's fun to get to play a lead character that goes all the way through and drives the storyline ... ERICA DURANCE It's been a really cool ride and a crazy year. It was not expected to be 13 episodes -- it was four ... ERICA DURANCE Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm tal... ERICA JONG They don't want to settle for the (Region III) quarterfinals, ERICA GARCIA In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can e... ERICA JONG The only times it [a coal ash spill] has happened you've been aware of it. ERICA TAYLOR Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is
to blame. ERICA JONG Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by... ERICA JONG When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they ... ERICA JONG The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel ERICA JONG I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as p... ERICA JONG I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their pea... ERICA JONG It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. ERICA JONG Fear of Flying ERICA JONG In my view, everything was indeed about her. His romancing me was about her, his conversation about ... ERICA JONG Surviving meant being born over and over. ERICA JONG Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell. ERICA JONG The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war b... ERICA JONG We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. ERICA JONG It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up wi... ERICA JONG You know the phrase ‘hard to get’?” K.T. asks. “Yeah.” “Forget har... ERICA CAMERON