The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my mo... JONATHAN COE When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures,... LISA J. SHULTZ One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an ... DANIEL TAMMET I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w... JOHN SCALZI Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is ... ORHAN PAMUK Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture ... ANTHONY BROWNE It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never b... WILL HARONDALE, CLOCKWORK PRINCE It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never b... CASSANDRA CLAIRE I am blown away that my God, who could do this all by Himself, would choose to let me be a little pa... KATIE J. DAVIS I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me, That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, an... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the fi... CHARLES DICKENS I can't account for Beth at all, ... I would not say in any of my books that things have gotten away... JOAN BARFOOT what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people ... JOSH LIEB There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from t... KATE WINSLET Ιη m¥ books, ł'm †ђ3 best; I just need some time тσ prove it ιη ¥øûЯ history books. UFUOMA APOKI Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always le... PAMELA PAUL I feel awful about it, because they're taking a very nationalist kind of feeling to it. 'Those rotte... CHRISTINE JOHNSON Your voice tears me away from the reality that I exist and places my mind somewhere in between the i... AKSHAY VASU One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life i... JACQUELINE KELLY I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte... ERRI DE LUCA I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could... CASSANDRA CLARE I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been... JOSH TURNER Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'... WHIT STILLMAN Daily I live with [one] fear--a healthy fear if there is such a thing. [It is] that I will miss some... CAROLE MAYHALL If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body... KAMAND KOJOURI The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. VLADIMIR LENIN Watching movie instead of reading books, feeling like I am getting away from my own fantasy. P S DAVID PAUL If you were called away from life tomorrow, would you leave without regret? Live Life today with no ... SCOTTIE SOMERS Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c... HENRY DAVID THOREAU I've been fishing all my life and I hate to see that pulled out from under me. They're stabbing me i... ERIC CARLSON It is a wonderful opportunity for me to share my life, my hopes and my dreams. This year will be my ... DONNA JONES Let it be known--from this day forth, I vow to protect Meghan Chase, daughter of the Summer King, wi... JULIE KAGAWA The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH "To me it's not a ... This is my ... This is my ... I was going to say this is my life. It's not my ... JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of m... LAUREN OLIVER Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was ta... GEMMA WARD Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forc... LYNNE TRUSS A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. "To me it's not a ... This is my ... This is my ... I was going to say this is my life. It's not my ... JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING The train brings out some of the best and the worst memories of my life. I like to watch the train. ... RAVI RANJAN GOSWAMI It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; bu... JANE WELSH CARLYLE May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am wired to live joy in all ways. I let my being be healed and tended by the high vibration of joy... AMY LEIGH MERCREE He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... WALTER ANDERSON I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... WALTER ANDERSON I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... WALTER ANDERSON I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... WALTER ANDERSON Human sympathy has its limits. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my min... HENRY B. EYRING I relish my debauchery. I don't regret it or shy away from it and pretend that I'm gonna stop it. Th... JASON MYERS From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who... THE SCHOOL OF LIFE I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of an... C.S. LEWIS We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My true religion, my faith in God. He gives me love and compassion. I simply return them by loving a... ANN MARIE AGUILAR Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that G... MINDY MCCREADY For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career. DIANE LANE I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on m... MARLO THOMAS The streets made me. They stay at me. There's nothing that's gonna take away from my legacy.... LIL' KIM Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name;... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought... OSCAR WILDE I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone ... OSCAR WILDE It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world OSCAR WILDE Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up... OSCAR WILDE When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my con... JERRY WEST I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be... JOHN GREEN If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep... SOCRATES The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't ev... SCOTT DOUGLAS Some people think they are punishing me when they hit their head against a wall. If that's not insan... ROBIN SACREDFIRE Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good ... BELLE AURORA Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from ... AYAAN HIRSI ALI My record as a pro-life governor is not in dispute. I am completely pro-life, and I believe that we ... JEB BUSH I look forward, not to what lies ahead of me in this life and will surely pass away, but to my etern... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of... DAVID BERGEN I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from... CECELIA AHERN I have spent my whole life preparing to be William Wallace’s wife. The choices I make are defined ... DEIRDRE-ELIZABETH PARKER I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... WALTER ANDERSON Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b... BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and... JERRY SPINELLI Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I... JUDITH ROSSNER They've been the worst months of my life. I've been wishing my life away by constantly wanting the w... CHRISTINE HALL Easter Almighty and everlasting God, Who hast preserved me by Thy fatherly care through all the ... SAMUEL JOHNSON The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship witho... EDVARD MUNCH Anything man can make, man can destroy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi... C. JOYBELL C. I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I w... KATRINA KAIF
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OSCAR WILDE Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your... OSCAR WILDE Hatred is blind, as well as love. OSCAR WILDE Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go OSCAR WILDE It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere... OSCAR WILDE Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit... OSCAR WILDE Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent... OSCAR WILDE No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti... OSCAR WILDE The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of... OSCAR WILDE The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. OSCAR WILDE I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that... OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ... OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne... OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow... OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is... OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is... OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ... OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness... OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. OSCAR WILDE